Karolina Taczanowska

Dr. Karolina Taczanowska is a Polish-Austrian academic at BOKU Vienna, specializing in sustainable tourism and human spatial behavior in recreational landscapes. As Senior Scientist at the Institute for Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning since 2020 (and Research Associate 2006-2020), her work bridges digital transformation with nature-based recreation through advanced GIS and spatial analysis.

• 2023: Habilitated in Landscape Planning with 'Human Behaviour in Recreational Landscapes'
• 2009: PhD from BOKU Vienna
• 2006: Bertha von Suttner scholarship for postdoctoral research

Research focuses on sustainable tourism, smart recreation systems, and human-plant interactions, using cutting-edge methods like GNSS tracking, big data analysis, and participatory GIS. Her 2024 work on wild food foraging in cities and 2023 BOKU Sustainability Award highlight contributions to urban-nature relationships.

Key publication themes include recreational behavior during pandemic, digital mobility analysis, and forest recreation monitoring. Active in international conferences (Ethnobotany 2025, EGU 2017) and reviewer for 12+ journals including Landscape and Urban Planning and Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.

Scientific recognitions: 4 poster awards (2006-2012) and 2023 top sustainability education award. Supervised 8 master's theses on topics from mobile data analysis to pandemic impacts on green space usage.