Principles of long-term sustainable forest development implemented as the background for ecological forest management

Abstract

Forests are supposed to meet the requirements not only of the today developing society but also of
next generations living a one or two hundred years after us. Being threatened by a range of harmful
agents, including the global climate change, and providing manifold public benefits, the forests
need global management driven in nature-close, ecological ways. The issues of long-term validity,
permanency and ecological orientation of forest development can be successfully resolved only
by consistent implementation of the following basic principles of forest management: principle of
sustainable development, stabilisation, ecologisation, optimisation and economization.