Sustainability and success control for protecting forest’s

Sustainability and success control for protecting forest’s

EN

A practical tool intended to guarantee the survival of a sustainable and effective protective forest at a minimum cost. Based on the assumption that the state of the forest is crucial to its ability to provide effective protection against natural hazards, silvicultural requirement profiles are described for different forest locations and natural hazards This method gives an overview for every protection forest type, helps to clarify the management goal and shows the achieved management results. It makes them verifiable and simplify the discussion in the field of protective forest management for practitioners, authorities and academic staff Standard method to characterize protection forest’s needs and to manage them according to identical objective criteria. The management results are verifiable for the protection forest authorities. This method is used to improve the quality in protection forest management

Type of wood
Stemwood
Origin of wood
Forest
Mobilization Potential
- 10 m³/ha
Kind of wood concerned
Stemwood
Sustainability Potential
Very positive
Impact on environment & biodiversity

Easy

 

Economic impact
Positive
Job effect
Positive
Income effect
Positive
Specific knowledge needed
Silvicultural knowledge in the context of protective forests
Key prerequisites

Silvicultural knowledge

Domain
Forest management, ecosystem, resilience
Digital solution
No
Innovation
No
Country of origin
Switzerland
Scale of application
National
Start and end year
2005 - 2005
Contact data
Owner or author
References and Resources
Project under which this factsheet has been created
Rosewood