Objectives
Educational, social and forest-related Objectives
Educational objectives and added values for education:
Forest Pedagogy communicates values like
- respect for nature
- consideration to fellow-being and life-being
- responsibility
- tolerance
- solidarity between generations
- global and long-term thinking and acting
- improves:
- creativity and imagination
- cooperative - and action - competences
- interdisciplinary thinking
- curiosity and concentration
- social behaviour
- offers:
- free space for self-discovering-learning
- nature-near living spaces, natural habitats, rich biodiversity
Social and economical objectives, objectives for sustainable forestry:
Forest Pedagogy raises awareness
- for the benefits of sustainable forestry
- for the value of non-wood forest products and services (benefits for society- mental, practical, emotional)
- for the places of employment in the forest sector and the forest-based industry
- provides added values to rural development (F.E. employment, tourism, income etc.)
- fosters interactions and exchanges between rural and urban areas/people
- improves relationships with environment at local level
- promotes the continuing use of wood as renewable material (to gain social acceptance for timber harvesting and forest management)
Environmental objectives, forest-related objectives:
- develops awareness, sense of responsibility and interaction for the role of forests and forestry (risks and potentials) ahead climate change
- fosters interests and cooperations to make forests, their products and their management fit for other challenges and risks ahead (as: water resources, energy, biodiversity, protection of soil)
- improves understanding of forest management and forests multifunctional benefits