The role of forest in the context of Environmental Citizenship: Insights from Austria

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World Conference on “Forests for Public Health” Athens, Greece, 8-11 May 2019: Abstract Book (2019) , S. 109

CONCLUSIONS: Environmental Citizenship provides an important opportunity for reaching the SDGs. In addition EC can substantially contribute in green space planning and achieving sustainability on local, national and global scale. Forest pedagogy can be highlighted as best practice example focusing on the dialogue between humans and nature. It creates a participative learning environment and fosters awareness and understanding of forest functions, sustainability and private property. Understanding the need for sustainability is very important since in future further resource conflicts and intersections are expected, including the link to health impacts.
KEY WORDS: Environmental Citizenship, forest pedagogy, forest functions, public health