Społeczno-ekonomiczne aspekty rozwoju zrównoważonego w obszarach górskich

The main purpose of this paper is to define some social and economic conditions of sustainable development in the mountain areas. The following conclusive points can be drawn from the study: Since 1990 there has been noticed the considerable increase in the size of protected areas in the mountain regions; - Rise in size of protected areas was not accompanied by efforts to improve the labour force exploitation; Generally responsibility for the rate and directions of sustainable development should be taken over local self-governments. However, their abilities to collect revenues are lower in mountain areas compared to the average in Poland. It means that self-governments in those regions are powerless to conduct any activities in favour of sustainable development in relation to other regions.