| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 493147 | Procedia Technology | 2013 | 4 Pages |
Farmers and foresters – worldwide more than 2 billion people - manage large parts of countries, in some of them 90% of the total area or even more. Rich, small and due to their mountains risk-exposed countries with beautiful nature like Austria or Switzerland, where the answer of the nature to a management failure is immediate and rough, did lots of environmental caretaking already in the past. The intensive tourism e.g. needs well maintained landscapes and reduced existing risks. This with help of governments, supported by legislation, governmental avalanche-, torrent- or river- departments, land consolidation units, Chambers of Agriculture, Ministerial departments etc.; they got the farmer‘s support in the past with a general concept: Managing a farm/forest sustainably is also a sustainable management of the environment. EC's GAP (Good Agricultural Practice) took this concept EC-wide and beyond. For the future this concept is to less!
