Woodiness is of primary importance while making economic and social decisions concerning the strategy of sustainable development. The studies constitute an attempt at making a statistical and cartographic evaluation of woodiness in the Lublin Province. The analysis was made on the basis of statistical data. The method of relative deviations was employed to determine the woodiness in the communes located in the Lublin Province, and to compare it with the average woodiness in the Province and in Poland. The dynamics of woodiness in the period 1995 – 2001 was also studied. The results are presented in the form of area chorograms. Another aim of the studies was to look at the above method, developed under different conditions of information processing, from a new perspective, and to show the possibility of presenting results as twin complementary maps. One of them maps would show “privileged” areas and the other – “handicapped” areas, in terms of the phenomenon studied.

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