Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2011, 59(4), 137-142 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201159040137

Regional importance of forests and forestry for rural development

Václav Kupčák
Ústav regionální a podnikové ekonomiky, Mendelova univerzita v Brně, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Česká republika

In the rural area represents forest management the significant and often the sole source of job opportunities, especially in border areas of the Czech Republic. As the sector is forestry such an important participant of regional development, incl. location factors relation in the face of traceable processing branches. All this increases the social role of forestry and it is a factual fulfilling of specific social functions of forest management in the sense of strategic development documents.
National forestry programs are considered as concepts for application of sustainable forest management in long-term improvement of competitiveness of forestry. They are part of the state forestry policy and at the same time they fulfill the EU Forestry Strategy. The paper focuses on the National Forest Programme of the Czech Republic for the period up to 2013 in relation to regional development and the importance of forestry in rural development area in the Czech Republic.
The paper focuses on the Programme LEADER too, aimed to engage in the rural areas more forestry bodies into the local action groups and into the elaboration of local development strategies.

Keywords: forestry, forest management, social functions, employment, the national forestry programme
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The paper presents results of the research project No. WD-57-07-1 "Possibilities of overcoming the disparity between selected regions" elaborated with the financial aid from the Ministry for Regional Development.

Received: March 8, 2011; Published: May 29, 2014  Show citation

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Kupčák, V. (2011). Regional importance of forests and forestry for rural development. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 59(4), 137-142. doi: 10.11118/actaun201159040137
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