Forest area in Austria

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1 Green Care FOREST - diversification as an opportunity for forestry Petra Isabella Schwarz EFIMED Week th of November 2016 Forest area in Austria Forest in private hands 20% 80% Private forest Public forest 1

2 Small scaled business Farms in Austria 1,6% 16,1% 42,2% 40,2% less than 5 ha 5 to less than 20 ha 20 to less than 200 ha 200 ha and more farms in Austria mixed farms Credit: BMLFUW Challenges in Society Existing Demand _1.5 mill. Austrians are at risk of burnout, 2010 Green Care New Ways New Chances Bridge between Agricultural and Social Challenges _1 in 3 eleven-year-olds is overweight or obese _Cost of psychological illnesses for the Austrian economy is 7.16 bill. annually (equivalent to 3% of GDP) _44.5% of all employees declared unfit for work in Austria in 2010 left the workforce for psychological reasons. _2.6 mill. Working days are loss to stress and 1.6 mill. to depression, 2010 Austria _In % of the population was over 65 Source: Statistik Austria

3 Green Public Health Benefits of Woodlands on Human Health and Well-being Results Visits to forests IUFRO World Congress 2014 Abridged Report English Green Public Health Benefits of Woodlands on Human Health and Well-being Download Pyhsical Health Mental Health Social Health Download Physical health Availability of forest areas Mental health Stress decline *Health prevention Increase positive emotions Less tense Less worried Credit: Cervinka Credit: sxc.hu 3

4 Social health Socially-integrative potential Influencing Factors Health Effects Well tended, Well structured Well being Credit: Botka BFW Credit: sxc.hu REGULATION (EU) No 1305/2013 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Forest Dialoque workshop Article 35 Co-operation under paragraph 1 shall relate to diversification of farming activities into activities Concerning health care, social integration and education about the environment and food. May participants 3 working groups (Official Journal of the European Union Page 516) 4

5 Outcome Working groups FOREST geragocis Elderly people _FOREST geragogics Workshop 9 th European Forest Pedagogic Congress 2014 in Poland _FOREST kindergarten _Equality through FOREST experiences _ Aggression management through FOREST experiences On the analogy to forest-pedagogic for children and juveniles, FORESTGERAGOGIC is an important new field of education and it is a part of forest pedagogic. Considering the amount of age cohorts of elderly people who bring their own individual skills, their experience with the forest and their interests in the forest, could it be necessary to open this new program for and to all forest-pedagogues. Credit: Georg Zeilinger FOREST kindergarten 50 participants Equality through FOREST experiences 3 focuses _people with migration background _permanently unemployed _ the handicapped 5

6 The handicapped Close collaboration with social work The handicapped Close collaboration with social work Credit: Waldverband Steiermark Credit: Waldverband Steiermark Green Care FOREST New Ways New Chances Credit: Waldverband Steiermark 6

7 The Call for Abstracts will be open till 21 November The conference : focusses on the effects of landscape on human health and well-being. In particular, we welcome abstracts that deal with one of the topics (1)Relationships between landscape and human health and well-being (2)Relationships between landscape-based Green Care offers and human health and well-being (1)Interdisciplinary communication and policy concerning landscape and health Green Care FOREST New Ways New Chances Thank you for your attention 7