“Green jobs” as an element of multifunctional development of rural areas – an attempt to resolve the phenomenon

“Green jobs” can emerge in each sector becauseof diversity of operations in favour of security of balance of environment. Rural areas seem particularly predestined to initiate green economy. As unsolved problems related to adverse demographic structure remain in these areas, with village to cities migration phenomenon, in consequence rural areas depopulation, with dysfunction of local labour market, direction of solution of mentioned problems seems to be green economy. In order to maintain the viability of rural areas there is the necessity to affect all the conditions of their development. Integrated policy should include in this range:identification and diagnosis of local identity as bases for the sense of membership construction and start-up of social activity, identification and diagnosis of local activity connected with “green” economy, creating support system (financial, administrative, educational and investigative). Success of these operations depends on how they will meet real requirements of local communities,because these communities are the creators and at the same time recipients of effects of undertaken operations. Hence, the ultimate estimation of efficiency of accustomed solution belongs to them. The purpose of the present paper is the estimattion of this phenomenon based on data from secondary sources. The article is of an explorative character and at the same time is a departure point for defining a further research program that will allow to verify the presented above hypothesis.