Harald Vacik - Comparing The Potential of Non-Wood Forest

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Harald Vacik investigated the future potential of NWFPs for diversifying the forest bioeconomy in different European regions in his presentation. Forest owners who are willing to focus their management on the joint production of wood and non-wood resources will be able to learn about the most successful combinations in a given ecological and socio-economic context. The presentation unravels perspectives for forest owners in particular as they act as main suppliers of NWFP raw materials and thus can be understood as key actors in a forest bioeconomy. Due to the varying socio-economic and ecological environments, there is huge potential to strengthen the economic viability of rural areas and a sustainable co-production may foster the ecological integrity of forest ecosystems across Europe. His slideshow is at foresthistory.org/education/presentations-and-discussions/ntfp-web-series/comparing-european-regions/

Harald Vacik conducts research on the evaluation of natural resource management in the context of sustainability and biodiversity at the Department of Forest and Soil Sciences at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna. For almost 20 years he has been actively involved in the development and application of criteria and indicators for evaluating sustainable forest management at the forest level and in national and international contexts. He has been actively involved in several European-scale and nationwide research projects and initiatives on the evaluation of management concepts for non-wood forest products and ecosystem services for balancing multiple interests on natural resources.

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