Furniture Design Ideas

Problem-centred interviews were used for the data collection (Witzel 1989). These followed guidelines which suggested potential questions about the following themes: • experience with nature • time spent “in nature” • importance of the natural world during childhood • type of relationship with nature • awareness and evaluation of changes in nature during recent years […]

Interviewees were selected from the local population in the regions around the wilderness areas according to the theoretical-sampling method (Strauss 1991) in order to identify as contrastive views as possible (Hunziker 2000). The aim was not to select positions that are representative in a quantitative sense, but rather to have the greatest possible differences be­tween […]

We chose the wilderness areas in those regions in the German part of Switzerland where wilderness and its spread are the subjects of intense de­bate. By “wilderness areas” we mean areas in which there has been hardly any human intervention in the form of tending or cultivation or in which hardly any such measures are […]

It is forecast that, in the coming years, agriculture and forestry throughout Europe will decline further (Eissing 2002). This means that many areas that are exploited at present will no longer be used and parts of these areas will be taken over by wilderness. Since experts cannot agree on what con­sequences this development will have, […]

Nicole Bauer Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Section Landscape and Society Introduction In recent years the general conditions for land use in Switzerland for agri­culture and forestry have changed as less area is needed for farming. Pri­mary production is no longer profitable and state subsidies have been re­duced. This means that decisions will have to […]

Having the “wild” represented in cities through forests and trees can also cause problems which need to be taken into account by forest managers. Problems with trees and woodlands in and near cities range from wildfire hazards and allergy problems to nuisances caused by falling leaves and fruits. Studies have indicated that residents’ sense of […]

In the light of the above considerations, biodiversity and “naturalness” as­pects may seem less central to urban forestry, where social and environ­mental services are favoured. Studies have shown, however, that urban green space can support significant biodiversity, for example, in terms of habitat and species diversity (e. g. Sukopp and Werner 1987). In recogni­tion of […]

Expert debate on “wild woodlands” Multifunctionality in urban forestry is about opting for the right combina­tion of urban-forest functions in the right place. Limited urban-forest re­sources have to meet the high and diverse demands of thousands and sometimes millions of local users. Combining social and ecological de­mands is a key task from the perspective of […]

Urban forestry has been defined as the art, science and technology of man­aging trees and forest resources in and around urban community ecosys­tems for the physiological, sociological, economic, and aesthetic benefits trees provide society (Helms 1998). The term was first coined in Canada as part of the title of a 1965 graduate study on municipal […]

Cecil C. Konijnendijk Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning Nature, forests, trees and cities Although antagonists by definition, nature and cities have had a much more complex relationship. Urbanisation has meant that natural areas have become cultivated and often overexploited and that nature has been re­moved as a dominant factor in the daily life […]