Federal research and training center for forests, natural hazards and landscape
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State level | Federal level | ||
position | Subordinate agency | ||
legal form | Public institution | ||
At sight | Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism | ||
founding | 1874 (as AöR 2005) | ||
Headquarters | Vienna 13 (1131), Seckendorff-Gudent-Weg 8 | ||
management | Gerhard Mannsberger (owner representative), Johannes Schima (chairman economic council), Peter Mayer (head) | ||
Employee | 288 (2012) | ||
sales | 21 million euros | ||
Website | bfw.ac.at |
The Austrian Federal Research and Training Center for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape ( BFW ) is an institution under public law and was spun off from the Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (today: Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism ) in 2005 . The BFW was set up in 1874 by Emperor Franz Josef as the Imperial and Royal Forestry Test Management.
Research areas are:
- the sustainable multifunctional use, design and protection of forest ecosystems and drinking water catchment areas
- long-term ecosystem changes and the preservation and promotion of biological diversity
- the protection against natural hazards and the handling of georisks
It consists of six specialist institutes, two forestry training centers ( FAST Traunkirchen , near Gmunden in Upper Austria and FAST Ossiach in Ossiach in Carinthia), a library and documentation center, and several internal service centers. The BFW currently has a total of 280 employees.
The head office is in Schönbrunn in Vienna , there is also a location in Innsbruck in Tyrol, an experimental garden near Tulln, and a teaching and experimental forest in Carinthia.
From 2005 to 2015 Hubert Dürrstein acted as chairman of the economic council of the BFW.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Organization , bfw.ac.at; and organizational chart
- ↑ Federal law establishing a federal research and training center for forests, natural hazards and landscape as an institution under public law and establishing the Federal Office for Forests - BFW Act - BFWG. StF: BGBl. I No. 83/2004 (ris.bka)
- ↑ Chronicle of the BFW
- ↑ Chronicle of the BFW
- ↑ § 130 Forest Act (ris.bka); also § 4 ff BFW law
- ↑ within the meaning of § 129 of the Forest Act 1975; Ordinance of the Federal Minister for Agriculture and Forestry of November 17, 1987 on the Forestry School and the Forestry Training Centers StF: Federal Law Gazette No. 665/1987, Section II. Forestry Training Centers §§ 6 ff
- ↑ Forestry Training Center Traunkirchen - Gmunden ( Memento from December 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ossiach forestry training center ( Memento from September 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ BOKU: Hubert Dürrstein . Retrieved August 16, 2017.