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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND LOCAL NATURAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES
Wojciech POŁEĆ1, Piotr MAŃKOWSKI2, Iwona BŁASZCZAK3
Publication language: English
scientific paper
Transformations No. 2(125)2025, Publication date: 30 June 2025
Keywords: sustainable development, craft, locally available wood raw material, qualitative study
Abstract The aim of the study is to show what opportunities for sustainable development policy lie in returning to traditional crafts, but it also shows what barriers and difficulties appear in the activities of people who try to continue traditional crafts in changed conditions. The development of crafts contributes to economic growth without generating an increase in the consumption of non-renewable resources and burdening the environment. We introduce the category of niche wood, by which we mean wood of domestic species, which are not species used in industry. This study is based on a qualitative study conducted with craftsmen continuing and recreating traditional forms of production related to the processing and use of objects and de-vices made of wood in Poland. Decisions made as part of the long-term shaping of forest policy and support of crafts should take into account the perspective of sustainable development.
Ph.D., assistant professor, Institute of Sociological Sci-ences and Pedagogy WULS, Poland
ORCID: ORCID: 0000-0001-7353 -9785
E-mail: wojciech_polec@sggw.edu.pl
Ph.D. Eng., assistant professor, Institute of Wood Sciences and Furniture WULS,, Poland
ORCID: ORCID: 0000-0003-4459-5029
E-mail: piotr_mankowski@sggw.edu.pl
Ph.D., assistant professor, Institute of Sociological Sciences and Pedagogy WULS, Poland
ORCID: ORCID: 0000-0002-3015-6837
E-mail: iwona_blaszczak@sggw.edu.pl