DEVELOPMENT OF MARKET WITH WOOD IN SLOVAKIA AND CENTRAL EUROPE

The market with wood and wood products, in the last five years, has more turbulent changes that affected due the overall geopolitical situation in the world, reverberant effects of the global economic crisis and the increasing intensity of incidental fellings in the context of global climate change. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the price development of selected raw-woods assortments from wood species spruce, fir and beech in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany and selected regions of Austria for the period 2009 (8)-2015. Results interpret the impact of individual periods and factors on price developments and the overall development of the wood market in Central Europe. The Article also provides a complex overview of the wood market in Central Europe and its development, together with cause analysis of the development.