Ekonomiczne aspekty lesnictwa w krajach Unii Europejskiej i w Polsce

The first part of the paper presents a synthetic approach to the evolving goals and accompanying major principles of forest management. The other parts of the paper concentrate on the assessment of current economic and financial conditions of forest management in the state−owned forests on the example of the selected countries (West Germany, Austria, Finland and Poland), which differ in organisation systems of forest management. The last part of the paper contains a number of statements of a general nature.