https://doi.org/10.21697/seb.2021.19.1.05
The article presents a socio-cultural perspective on the issue of the forest. Usually, the forest is studied as an important component of the natural environment. This approach is correct, although in the case of people, such a philosophy of perceiving the environment in this way is incomplete, since the human being is not only an organism, but also a person and a social being. Therefore, the human environment is a socio-natural environment. This perspective of the human environment takes into account the fact that the human being does not appear directly in nature, but in a social (including cultural) environment, which, in turn, was created on the foundation of a transformed natural environment, adapted to the needs of people. The human being, as a culture creator, produced a social environment containing manifold artificial elements. The above distinguishes him from other living species, because the natural human environment, besides being natural, is also artificial, shaped within the society’s socio-cultural environment. Starting from this assumption, the author will try to show the forest as an important element of the perceived human environment. It performs important social and cultural functions in people’s lives, which also shape environmental (ecological and health) security. The purpose of the article is to discuss these detailed functions and their division.
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