Forest Law and Environmental Legislation in Hungary

2000

7 Lit.Ang.

Unselbständiges Werk

12654

200063524

Hungary is one of several central European countreies, whose political and economical systems have changed. The centrally planned system was replaced by a market economy. Since 1990, forestry has been adapting to a market economy. Cooperative forests have been given back to their former owners, and part of the state forest has been privatized together with some technical services and wood processing plants. These changes are coinciding with changes in the interantional community on environmental and forest policy. In accordance with increasing public awareness of environmental issues, non-wood-producing functions of forests have a higher priority, and sustainable forest management is interpreted in a much wider context, in which conservation of biological diversity and sustainable development of the natural and human environment are equally important criteria.