Sustainable users concepts for china engaging scientific scenarios
Abstract
This project develops and carries out five case studies of peri-urban and rural settlements in five different Chinese provinces. It will produce a profile of each settlement from the point of sustainability and describes pathways into the future from the ecological, economic and sociocultural point of view. Following the principles and the multi-disciplinary approaches of "bottom up - top down", the questions of "what to maintain" and "what to change" are leading to establish a participatory sustainable process that brings about the cross-checking of poverty alleviation and environmental impacts in the very dynamic socio-political situation in China. As a result the projects expert-pool and indigenous knowledge will provide a tool for settlements good governance as well as for policy decisions. The forestry component will be covered by the Institute of Silviculture at BOKU, Vienna. Its contribution will analyse existing and potential forest ressources as a basis of sustainable development of whole regions in China.
sustainable development sustainable forestry multipurpose forestry
Publikationen
Project staff
Alfred Pitterle
Ass.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Alfred Pitterle
alfred.pitterle@boku.ac.at
Project Leader
01.10.2002 - 30.09.2005
BOKU partners
External partners
ARC Seibersdorf research BmbH, Biogenetics - Natural Resources, Dep. Environmental Research_x000D_ _x000D_
Dr. M. Knoflacher
coordinator
OIKODROM - Institute for Urban Sustainability
Dr. H. Dumreicher
sub-coordinator
Chinese Agricultural University_x000D_
Dr. Liu, Y.
sub-coordinator
Mountain-River-Lake Development Office
Dr. Wang, X.
partner
Wuppertal Institute
Dr. R. Petersen
partner