This project was researched in 2005 by a team of experts commissioned by CIPRA as part of the Future in the Alps Project. The contents are not being updated.
- Best Practice
- Topics
- New forms of decision-making
- Governance capacity, Policies and instruments
- Short description
- The Stotzigwald in Gurtnellen protects the national highway A2 and cantonal highways against rock fall, erosion and avalanches. Today, this protection is negatively influenced. It lacks a healthy rejuvenation of the forest and measures against damages caused by chamois' foraging. For a long time, the problem is known. However, different conflicts of interests prevented the problem's adjustment up to now. During two years, the Plattform Stotzigwald provided a helpful basis for analysing the problem and finding adequate measures.
- Project executive
- Scientific steering of the project: Johannes Heeb, Seecon GmbH, Bahnhofstrasse 2, 6110 Wolhusen, johannes.heeb@seecon.ch; Karin Hindenlang, Eidg. Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, karin.hindenlang@wsl.ch
- Participants
- Moderators/facilitators; cantonal offices, foresters, hunters and farmers
- Objectives
- Natural risk reduction, enhancement of natural habitats, sustainable forestry and agriculture
- Activities
- Two year long process with total ten meetings. In the next years the measures fixed in a concept are supposed to implmented.
- Results
- In order to safeguard forest rejuvenation, the game population is supposed to be reduced. During the winter, the hunters guarantee for the necessary shootings. In agreement with the involved representatives of nature conservation, forestry and agriculture, measures to improve the game's habitat are planned. Information about the forest-game problem is planned in order to sensitise all relevant stakeholders and the public. The implmentation of the measures are accompanied by a project group. Its task is the monitoring of the effectiveness of the introduced measures.
- Evaluation
- The evaluation of the platform process turned out that the general expectations were mainly fulfilled – especially with regard to the creation of mutual confidence and the establishment of a common comprehension of the problem. On the other hand, the high expenditure of time and the lacking bindingness of the decided measures were criticised.
- Difficulties
- a) strongly diverging interests of the participants; b) the problem to generate a mutual system understanding