NATURE-BASED FORESTRY IN CENTRAL EUROPE : Alternatives to Industrial Forestry and Strict Preservation

Nature-based management started in and around Central Europe as a response to forest overexploitation and degradation in fragile mountain landscapes. Switzerland was the first country that prohibited clear-cut forest management by law in 1902. It was followed by Slovenia in 1948/49. In the last half of the century nature-based forestry gained more and more follow- ers across Central Europe, and elsewhere in Europe and the World in the last decade....