e-mail: harald.vacik(at)boku.ac.at
phone: +43 / 1 / 47654 - 91312
Institute of Silviculture (Institut für Waldbau)
Department of Forest- and Soil Sciences
BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
A-1190 Wien, Peter Jordanstr. 82
room: 02/113 (Schwackhöferhaus, 2nd floor)
Ao.Univ.Prof. DI Dr. 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 Life Sciences, Vienna. For a period of almost 20 years 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 several decision support tools (DSD , CONES, AFM ToolBox) 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. 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.
main research areas
- silvicultural planning and decision making
- development of silvicultural guidelines for mountain forests
- development and application of decision support systems
- effects of silvicultural treatments on the sustainable use and maintainance
of biological diversity of forest ecosystems - assessment and management of coarse woody debris
- assessment of forest fire danger in mountain forest ecosystems
- natural resource management in international development cooperation and partner of CDR at BOKU
- design of ICT and computer based teaching in blended learning approaches (Tracopi)
BOKU - Research Information System (FIS)
courses
Harald Vacik all courses in academic year
are to be found in BOKUonline