Formalno-prawne aspekty kształtowania krajobrazu leśnego

The paper presents the possibilities of forest landscape planning based on an analysis of the existing legal acts (laws and regulations) and other documents (strategies, directives and statements) in the field of land−use planning, nature conservation and forestry. The need to take actions relating to forest landscape planning is a consequence of, inter alia, the growing importance of the non−productive forest functions driven by the rising social expectations of forests. The obtained results relate to forest landscape planning in Poland and other European Union countries. It has been demonstrated that forest landscape significantly affects the quality of peoples’ lives, and at the same time it is constantly threatened. An appropriate landscape planning is one of the priorities of Polish spatial policy. The results suggest that the issues relating to landscape planning are becoming increasingly important in the implementation of the principles of forest management in Poland.