H913 Institute of Silviculture
Persons
Ao.Univ. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. MAS (GIS) Harald Vacik
| Ao.Univ. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. MAS (GIS) Harald Vacik phone: +43/1/47654/4052 |
Institute of Siviculture (Institut für Waldbau)
Department of Forest- and Soil Sciences
BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna
A-1190 Wien, Peter Jordanstr. 82
room: 02/113 (Schwackhöferhaus, 2nd floor)
Harald Vacik is working on geographical information science & decision support systems for multipurpose forest management at the Department of Forest and Soil Sciences at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna. For a period of almost 10 year he is involved in the development and application of criteria and indicators for evaluating sustainable forest management at forest management level and in national and international contexts. In addition to the development and application of multi-criteria decision making techniques the tools DSD and CONES have been developed. In the field of Conservation biology he is adopting population viability risk management (PVRM) approaches to evaluate conservation management strategies in order to maintain species at risk and to identify courses of action to improve the viability of populations. In the context of his research activities he is providing expert advice in the implementation of scientifically based practical applications of silvicultural Know How and multi-criteria decision making techniques in Europe and Asia.
research
main research areas
- silvicultural planning and decision making
- development and application of decision support systems
- effects of silvicultural treatments on the sustainable use and maintainance
of biological diversity of forest ecosystems - development of silvicultural guidelines for mountain forests
- quantitative and qualitative aspects of coarse woody debris
- use of Hypermedia and Hypertext in computer based teaching and blended learning (Train For Education)
- assessment of the risk of forest fires in mountain forest ecosystems
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courses
- courses (BOKUonline)