Anforderungen des praktischen Forstbetriebes an das forstliche Versuchswesen der nächsten Jahrzehnte

2001

S. 304-308

8 Lit. Ang.

Unselbständiges Werk

200084628

The paper begins with an overview over the historical evolution of forest scientific thinking and research approaches since the beginning of sustainable forestry in Germany 300 years ago. This evolution went from simple observation and practical experience directly in forest, towards university research, with a progressing predominance of experimental research in well defined research plots. This evoluation followed the spiritual inputs of the philosophy of Rationalism and the Enlightenment, which finally were the base of all scientific and technical progress of our modern world. However, the problem for scientific questions in forestry is, that forest ecosystem evolution is marked by complex and long-term phenomena. Practical forestry is moving today more and more to variable, mixed, structured and biodiverse stand compositions, which show an increasing complexity. The more this becomes a fact, the less classical experiments with their reducing approaches can contribute to the solution of modern problems in practical forestry. In the next decades, practical forestry will need the help of science not only with ongoing classical experiments, but also with more clase studies in the field and holisitic approaches. This will require teamwork of different scientific specialists. Further, the modern problems of civilisation, technical evolution and urbanisation means, that there is a need to integrate social sciences (sociology, psychology, medicine an others) in forest research projects.