The subject acquaints students with the most topical issues of municipal and regional ecological policy in the Czech Republic and their solution in the conditions of membership in the European Union. Students will be informed on the principles of towns' sustainable development, especially on organic waste management and sustainable transport development. The subject furthermore deals with the new trends of rural areas development and sustainable management in the countryside. Attention is paid to the changing importance of forests, a new hierarchy of their functions importance, and to the principles of sustainable management of water and soil.