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Christian Lackner
Communication
Bratislava 28 th June 2017
Forest Europe Workshop
Green Care FOREST -
Prescribe yourself a dose of forest. Jobs! Jobs. Jobs?
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Green jobs?
http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1809506,00.html
Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images
http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1809506,00.html
http://www.earthtimes.org/newsimage/canada-slashes-green-jobs_8811.jpg
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Green jobs in forestry
http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1809506,00.html
© BFW
© BFW
© BFWhttp://www.erlebnis-lernstaette-wald.at/wald/info.html
http://www.shinrin-yoku.org/shinrin-yoku.html
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Forest area in Austria
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Farms in Austria
173.000 farms in Austria
145.000 mixed farms
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Challenges in Society
• 1.5 mill. Austrians are at risk of burnout, 2010
• 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 2011 17.7% of the population was over 65 Source: Statistik Austria 2008
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Green Care FOREST
Agriculture
&
Forestry
Education system
Healthcare system
Social security system
Economic system
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Green Care Forest
Potent Benefits of Woodlands
on Human Health
and Well-being
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Physical health
Credit: sxc.hu
Health prevention
• Pain therapy
for people with chronical pain
• Sports, Exercise, Fun
for overweight children
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Mental health
Credit: Cervinka
Stress decline
• Shinrin-yoku
Forest bathing
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Social health
Credit: Botka BFW
Socially- integrative potential
• Forest pedagogics,
Forest geragogics or
Forest as a place to work
For
children, teens, elderly
people
disabled people
refugees
unemployed people
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• 17.-19. May 2017 Diplomatic Academy of Vienna
• 140 experts from 27 different countries
• Exchange of experiences and scientific findings
• Impacts of visits in green spaces & offers of Green Care on human health.
Human
Health
3rd International Conference:
Forest, Parks and Green Care
Natural and
Cultural
Landscapes
Interaction
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• New opportunities for closer collaborations:
General outcome
Green Care
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• Trend to urbanisation
• Nature in the city? Not only green spaces
• Blue spaces meet green spaces
• Blue urban spaces = urban superficial water bodies
• New research on health- enhancing effect
• Smart ideas for city planning of the future
• Revitalizing urban waterfronts
Trend: Blue spaces
New green –
or blue –
jobs
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Personal benefits:
creates awareness for health presention
Increase of personal welfare, better health through nature
Economic benefits:
reduction of the costs for health care
prescribed stays in green areas
Challenge: Prevention vs. perscribed medicine?
How to win social insurances for this idea?
How to bring them on board?
Less medicine - pharma company reactions?
Future prospects
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Federal Research and Training Centre for
Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape
Austria, 1131 Wien
Seckendorff-Gudent-Weg 8
Tel.: +43 1 878 38-0
http://www.bfw.ac.at