15th International Scientific Conference WoodEMA 2022 CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND SAFETY FORESIGHT IN FOREST-BASED SECTOR AND SMES OPERATING IN THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT 233 IMPACT OF THE FOREST - RESOURCE POTENTIAL AT -SETTLEMENTS Petar Marinov Abstract: Forest resource potential is a basic factor in the Earth's biosphere system. On the other hand, it is the basis for the formation of the village forest and green infrastructure. In the development of the material - the aim is to present a new perspective (paradigm) for the forest resource potential, its impact on the ecological way of life in urban settlements. The publication attempts a methodological approach (application of a mathematical model), based on the ratio of forests (urban forests and green areas) to the population in the village. The basing of the forest resource potential and the green areas are based -settlements in the urbanized areas. Key words: Forest resources, eco-villages, urbanization and green infrastructure. 1. INTRODUCTION social and economic needs of the population. In recent decades, these same forest "resources" have emerged as a basic environmental need (necessity) for the growing human population on a global scale. Forest resources, on the one hand, are a natural resource that develops and forms ecosystems and they can be classified as renewable resources on the planet. With the intellectual development of human civilization, the forests or the resources in them begin to be exploited in different ways depending on the range and latitude. The development of industrialization and subsequently the process of urbanization and suburbanization, affect forest areas, and the latter are beginning to become part of the urban environment (Mihailova, 2019). ineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when the intellectual human potential realized that wood may have a purpose other than its conventional use. The basis of the creation of various concepts and paradigms during the time periods of human development is the forest resource potential, regardless of its form. The concept of Sustainable Development is based on modern philosophy in the coming decades of the XX and XXI centuries. It has its prehistory in the early 1970s of XXth century, with a number of previous events, reaching 1987, when the World Commission on Environment and Development (UN, WCED, 1987) adopted the report of the Brundtland Commission sustainable development. The definition is as follows: sustainable development is development al idea of Sustainable Development on a global scale, and as a concept emerged in the 90s of XXth century in the United States. Attention is beginning to be paid to green areas and spaces in the urban environment of big cities, the connection between natural resources and man. The basis terminology was quickly included in the specialized literature, began to find application in