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organised by the UNIVERSITÄT FÜR BODENKULTUR WIEN (University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna) in collaboration with 8 European partner institutions within the SILVA-Network *)
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| Background | Core Areas | Course Sites and Programme Design | Programme and Time-Table | Download
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The European Alps are still a comparatively natural landscape but increasingly overcrowded by tourists, outdoor sports, accommodation facilities. The intensification of forestry and of agricultural pasturing practices leads to an overcharging of its ecological carrying capacities by maximising nearly all of the multiple-use options.
Forestry can no longer simply postulate a protection of the protection forests and an intensification within the production forest stands. Ecological and economic relationships have to be integrated more consciously with the surrounding, non-forested areas and with non-forestry interests and priorities as well. In general, rural development issues and the non-timber values of forestry tend to become more and more relevant. A correspondingly adaptive forest management is very complex and highly diverse in different countries. In times of globalisation it is increasingly important to expose foresters and forestry students to often quite different situations outside their home countries. Currently foresters still tend to focus too much on their traditional practices and experiences.
| The major goal of this IP is to raise awareness for existing tensions between forest protection and forest use as well as for socio-economic mechanisms on an international scale. |
Based on the situation in the European Alps course participants will become familiarized with a more integrated forest management.
After completion of this course they should be better equipped to practice adaptive forest management instead of just continuing along the traditional lines.
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COURSE SITES AND PROGRAMME DESIGN:
The course will be held in the
BOKU Forestry Training Centre in the Rosalia Mountains, some
50 km South East of Vienna, during the first week, changing then to the
South of Austria
(Federal Forestry Training Centre Ossiach/Carinthia), including a visit to
North Eastern Italy.
Due to experiences with former courses of a similar type, the programme will combine short introductory lectures and subsequent discussions with field trips to mountain areas where problems, research, and management efforts will be presented and discussed in an inter- and transdisciplinary way (cf. Programme & Time Table). Two assignments will give us the possibility to evaluate your successful participation. This Intensive Programme is organised in the framework of the SOCRATES programme involving 8 EU partner institutions within the SILVA network. After the successful completion of the 2-weeks programme the participants will be awarded 5 ECTS-credits and a final certificate.
If you are interested to join this Intensive Programme, you are kindly requested to fill in the registration form and return it to the mentioned address before May 31st, 2001. Your registration will only become valid with the payment of an IP registration fee of 70.- EURO.
After having paid this registration fee, you will get a code word to enter those parts of the home page which will give you more information and access to preparatory texts and literature which is recommended to study in advance.
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Sunday 2 September
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arrival in Vienna |
| 07.00 | meeting at hostel and stroll through the City with informal dinner (optional) |
Monday 3 September
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08.15 |
pick up at hostel |
| 09.00 | official welcome at BOKU , transfer to
BOKU Forestry Training Centre, lunch |
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14.00. |
begin of official course programme:
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16.00 - 17.30 |
short self-introduction of participants |
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evening |
rural buffet dinner at teaching forest |
Tuesday, 4 September
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09.00 |
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09.30 - 10.30 |
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11.00 - 12.00 |
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12.15 |
Lunch |
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13.30 - 14.30 |
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15.00 - 17.00 |
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17.15 - 22.00 |
Wine-tasting excursion in the Lake Neusiedel area |
Wednesday, 5 September
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07.30 |
Departure for Schneeberg (bus, train) |
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11.00 - 18.00 |
Schneeberg - Alpine pasture as a complex |
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overnight stay at Damböckhaus / Hotel Hochschneeberg |
Thursday, 6 September
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09.00 - 12.00 |
continuation of case-study |
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afternoon |
descent from Schneeberg: preferably footwalk through protection forest |
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evening |
Dinner at local restaurant |
Friday, 7 September
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08.30 - 10.30 |
Optimal sequential forestry decisions under risk (Lohmander) |
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11.00 |
departure for Hebalm / Styria |
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afternoon |
possibility for sports activities (biking, orienteering run etc.) |
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overnight stay |
Saturday, 8 September
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09.00 - 16.00 |
silvicultural field study: clearcut vs. selective cutting forestry - ecological, growth & yield, technical & socio-economic issues (Spörk, N.N.) |
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16.30 |
departure for Ossiach |
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evening |
arrival at Federal Forestry Training Centre Ossiach / Carinthia |
Sunday, 9 September
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day off sightseeing programme (voluntary) |
Monday, 10 September
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morning |
introduction into problems of forest technology / risk management in mountaineous terrain (Berger, Dürrstein, Kleemayr, Weiss) |
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afternoon |
practical exercises on cable yarding in steep terrain |
Tuesday, 11 September
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08.00 |
departure for Lesachtal |
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all day |
field trip with instructions and demonstrations on mountain forest infrastructure options & problems; risk management tools |
Wednesday, 12 September
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morning |
theoretical lectures on forest & silvicultural engineering (Lexer, Vacik, N.N.) |
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afternoon |
site visit in Patergassen: protection and protective forest, rock fall problems, hazard mapping, exercises in silvicultural systems evaluation |
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evening |
dinner in typical Carinthian "Gasthaus" |
Thursday, 13 September
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all day |
excursion to Tarvisio forest: silvicultural problems in steep mountain forest terrain (Piussi) |
Friday, 14 September
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09.00 - 12.00 |
final workshop and summing-up |
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14.00 - 16.00 |
assignment; course evaluation |
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18.00 |
Farewell Party |
Saturday, 15 September
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train / bus back to Vienna (or Salzburg or other destinations) |
| Background | Core Areas | Course Sites and Programme Design | Programme and Time-Table | Download
your registration form |
Last update: 19.08.2001 IT
