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Austrian Forestry Sector

International Workshop: Small Holder Timber Production Systems Social, policy, legal and investment frameworks Austrian Case Study Herbert Hager and Gerhard Glatzel. Austrian Forestry Sector. Austrian Forestry. Hemerobie der österreichischen Wälder. Austrian Forestry: Tree Species and AAC.

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Austrian Forestry Sector

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  1. International Workshop:Small Holder Timber Production SystemsSocial, policy, legal and investment frameworksAustrian Case Study Herbert Hager and Gerhard Glatzel

  2. Austrian Forestry Sector

  3. Austrian Forestry

  4. Hemerobie der österreichischen Wälder

  5. Austrian Forestry: Tree Species and AAC

  6. Austria a Small Holder Forestry Country Aproximately 220000 small holders 90% of these are holding less than 2ha

  7. Legal and Social Framework • Austrian Forestry Law 1975 /2002 • Forest land has to remain under forest utilization • No clearcut larger than 0.5 / resp. 2.0ha • No sale on the stump • Reforestation/ regeneration duty of the owner (penalty) • Forest land must render services to the public e.g. free recreational use or nature conservation. • National and EU conservation & environmental laws Natura 2000. (chances... conservation contracts) • National and EU wood products and trading standards • Certification for SH

  8. S H Timber Producers and their Problems in Austria &CE • Small Holders minor players in the market, can not offer volume to the industrial buyer • Small Holders have higher costs, because of problems with mechanization and utilization of machinery • Small Holders often produce on inferior sites due to land degradation from historical landuse practices • Small Holders are undergoing social change (urbanization, abandonement), have lost the knowledge or interest in managing forests • Small Holders love planting conifers (spruce, pine) • Small Holders get less for their product (-10 to 20 Euro) • Difficult timber certification process

  9. Strategies against these drawbacks and disadvant. • Organizational measures...chamber of agriculture and its forestry advisors and consultants • Organized timber auctions (espec. val. hardwoods) • Small Holder Forest Growers Associations (WWG), Forest Tending and Marketing Associations, Forest Machinery Users Association (Maschinenring).. ..Subsidies • Incentive Programs for regeneration or afforestation of higher tree diversity forests and amelioration projects • Contracted nature conservation projects (e.g. Naturwaldzellen) • Stimulation and award programs (e.g. Austrian Farm Forester of the year, Excellence in Forest Tending)

  10. Strategies against these drawbacks and disadvant. • Value added chain taken up by SHTGrowers; Diversification... Provider for heating and electricity • Pan European Process.... PEFC Certification---- makes FSC also available to SHT Growers , Certification of WWG • SHT enterpreneurship (ongoing research)

  11. Thank you for attention ! And cool down with an Austrian winter landscape, where even trees take a break from growing.

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