Trend in the size of forest land

Dátum poslednej aktualizácie:20.12.2021

Téma

Indikátory zeleného rastu

Značky

Definícia indikátora

Size of forest land is shown in hectares and is also calculated as a percentage share on total SR size (forestation).
 

Jednotka indikátora

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Metadáta

Methodology:

Selection and methodology of indicator’s assessment is based on the set of indicators proposed by the OECD and addressed by the report: "Green Growth: Monitoring progress towards green growth“. Data relating to the national situation are usually presented in the period between 2000 and 2012. Basic time sequence is changed in those cases when the data are not accessible or when their comparison is not possible due to differing approaches in their collection, assessment, changes in methodology, classification, etc.  Summary assessment of indicator’s trend from the green growth perspective is based on a subjective evaluation of the responsible assessor due to the fact that the strategy is not officially implemented in the Slovak Republic and therefore specific objectives have not been defined.  Naturally, this assessment builds on the analysis of the past trends, as well as their anticipated direction in view of the measures adopted as to date.
Selected indicators characterize Slovakia's initial position as seen from the perspective of the green growth and were to be used as a measuring tool before further steps are taken in the process of implementation of this strategy and for a complex assessment of the future trend of the Slovak economy.  Present set of green growth indicators comprises 32 individual indicators that are relevant in Slovakia's conditions. Four of them are national indicators that describe voluntary instruments of the environmental strategy.

 

Data sources:

Data used in this document come from the official national or international sources and databases. Assessed trend was reviewed and discussed with the state administration specialists (individual departments of the ministries of Environment, Economy, Labour and Social Affairs and Family, Finance, Agriculture and Rural Development) and their professional organisations (Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute, State Geological Institute of Dionýz Štúr, Slovak Environmnet Agency, State Nature Consservancy, Institute for Financial Policy) and also the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic whose databases furnish most of the information.

 

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Kľúčové zistenia

Forests belong to the most diverse and most frequent ecosystems on the planet. Forestation of the country's land may not be directly related to its sustainable or non-sustainable development. Slovak Republic belongs to the European countries with the highest rate of forestation. The fact that the size of forests in Slovakia has been relatively stable is a positive signal. Currently, forests take up approximately 41 % of the country's territory.

In the long run, the size is slightly increasing, including timber land. Compared to 2000, area of forest land grew by 2020 by approx. 26.6 thous. ha (1.3 %), and, compared to the year before, by 753 ha, to the current size of 2 027 852 ha (data according to GCCA SR).
Gradual increase in the size of forests and timber land has been mainly the result of forestation activities on agriculturally non-usable lands, transfer of agricultural land covered by forest trees (i.e. white areas), as well as of gradual harmonisation of the real situation with the situation recorded in the land registry office as part of the forest care programmes.
 

Sumárne zhodnotenie

Source:GCCA SR Source table

 

Medzinárodné porovnanie

The OECD Green Growth database contains selected indicators for monitoring progress towards green growth to support policy making and inform the public at large. The database provides a synthesis of data and indicators available across a wide range of domains. The sources of the underlying data used to populate the Green Growth Indicators, as presented here, include a range of OECD databases and, in some cases, external data sources. The database covers OECD member countries, accession countries and selected non-OECD countries (including the BRIICS economies - Brazil, Russian Federation, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa).


OECD Green Growth Indicators Database
 

Kontakt na spracovateľa

Mgr. Peter Kapusta, SAŽP, peter.kapusta@sazp.sk