scholarly journals The Influence of Cultural-Historical Determinants on Functional-Spatial Development of Rural Areas

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 48-55
Author(s):  
Hanna Borucińska-Bieńkowska
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Rural Urbanization ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
Ecological Economic ◽  
Rural Architecture ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The article discusses selected issues regarding the influence of cultural-historical determinants on functional-spatial development of rural areas. Ecological, economic and social processes taking place in the last decades are examined in the context of the development of local self-governments and the rise of free market economy after Poland’s socio-economic transformation. The process of intensive rural urbanization occurs especially in areas within the impact zone of big cities. It is caused by, i.a., human migration into rural areas and development of areas of business activation. The abovementioned tendencies that occur in the ecological, economic and social context have a significant impact on functional-spatial development. Expansion of housing developments and, in effect, expansion and development of necessary technical infrastructure gives rise to many problems concerning preservation of cultural heritage of the Polish countryside. The pursuit of sustainable development of rural areas is fundamental in regard to ruralist solutions as well as preservation of traditional rural architecture. Cultural-historical determinants play a considerable role in this pursuit, especially in the context of threats that stem from overurbanization of rural areas.

scholarly journals Urban Features in Rural Landscape: A Case Study of the Municipality of Skawina

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 4638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Wilkosz-Mamcarczyk ◽  
Barbara Olczak ◽  
Barbara Prus
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Central City ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
The Status ◽  
External Conditions ◽  
Management Changes ◽  
The Impact

Events associated with growing suburbanisation and transport infrastructure lead to changes in the use of rural land reaching further and further from the central city. The present research focuses on the impact of the location of the municipality of Skawina and the functioning of its rural areas in the impact zone of Kraków. The first step to determine the transformations in the municipality of Skawina caused by the growth of Kraków and its suburban zone was to investigate the internal conditions in the municipality, such as its spatial development or functional structure, and external conditions such as its demographic transformations. Next, the development of the settlement structure in recent years and land management changes were investigated. The paper focuses on the introduction of typical urban features and functions into rural areas to identify the transformations and their dynamics. The status of the space was diagnosed by interpreting the map documentation for the administrative boundaries of the municipality of Skawina, regarding the presentation of the spatial development in 2006 and in 2014 to 2016, by verifying the existing planning documentation, and by visiting the site. The conclusions can be the basis for guidelines to protect the traditional rural and cultural landscape near Kraków.

scholarly journals Rural areas from demographic perspective. Study case Poland and Romania

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 162-167
Author(s):  
Cosmina-Simona Toader ◽  
Malgorzata Zajdel ◽  
Andrea Ana Feher ◽  
Malgorzata Michalcewicz-Kaniowska
Keyword(s):  
Rural Area ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural Population ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Impact

The rural area is an extremely varied area, agricultural area, the area occupied by forests and grazing the surface of non-agricultural lands (Riviera sea, etc.) and rural agglomerations is a separate entity from the urban areas characterized by a high demographic concentration and vertical and horizontal structures. Being often under the impact of old production systems, characterized by accelerated development and irrational of industry, the countryside has been subject to economic transformation, social and environmental, which mostly resulted in exodus and impoverishment of the rural population. Given this situation, are downright remarkable efforts of developed countries and not only to balance rural-urban ratio, reconciliation and revival of rural areas is kept of unique material and spiritual values. Rural areas are the result of interactions between man and nature, between interdependencies relations, who are specific to diversity of social actions and their natural environment, between the material and spiritual civilization, which for centuries coexist and evolve in a particular national territory. Image of rural area is emphasized by its size, which is the synthetic expression of social activities that are conducted using specific processes and phenomena of nature. All specific features of rural areas (natural, human, material and spiritual), which define the dimension of rural areas, are highlighted by the following components of the system: territorial administrative, demographic, economic and infrastructural. European rural area was and is the subject of extensive restructuring processes that were the result of a complex interaction of social phenomena, economic, sectoral and regional transfers. In circumstances where over half of the 27 Member States of the European Union lives in rural areas, and it occupies over 80% of the total territory, rural areas have considerable potential for growth, with a vital social role. Rural population and surface area occupied and the importance of rural life for a country, make the problem of rural development to gain a national and international importance. In this article the authors presents rural areas as an important part of a country with all its components. The authors elaborated a comparative analysis of rural areas from Poland and Romania from demographic perspective. The analysis was elaborated using indicators like population density, population structure by gender and age, migrations of population, relying on data from national and european statistics.  

Situation and Treatment Methods of Ecological and Environmental Problems during the Process of Urbanization in Rural Areas of China

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoxue Zhang ◽  
Faming Sun ◽  
Jie Yang ◽  
Jian Li ◽  
Jing Liang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Ecological Environment ◽  
Rural Urbanization ◽  
Environmental Treatment ◽  
Process Of Urbanization ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

Rural urbanization is a process of population agglomeration catalyzed by industrialization. At present, China’s urbanization process is accelerating against the backdrop of rapid social development. However, in some areas, economic development is emphasized, while the protection of the ecological environment is neglected, leading to the increasingly obvious contradiction between urbanization and rural ecological environment and is not conducive to economic development. In this paper, the development trend of China’s rural urbanization, the current situation of environmental pollution, and the progress of important environmental treatment projects are analyzed. Accordingly, the main problems in rural environmental protection and the impact of urbanization are explored. The problems led by industrial and domestic pollutants have been amplified by urbanization, while the improved connection between urban and rural areas will benefit the improvement of environmental infrastructure in rural areas. The government-led projects of rural water improvement, sanitary toilet penetration, methane gas production, and solar water heater have made great progress during the past two decades. Based on these understandings, we put forward feasible countermeasures to implement rural ecological environment protection during the process of urbanization to promote the benign development of rural urbanization. Our results will be helpful in providing some useful references for environmental protection in rural areas and promoting the coordinated development of the economy and environment during the process of urbanization in China.

scholarly journals The Influence of Ecophysiographic Determinants on the Functional-Spatial Development of Rural Areas - A Study of the Village of Lubasz

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-246
Author(s):  
Hanna Borucińska-Bieńkowska
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Socioeconomic Changes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Big City ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Village

AbstractThe article discusses selected issues concerning the influence of ecophysiographic determinants on functional-spatial and socio-economic development in rural areas. Ecological, economic and social processes that have been taking place for the past few decades are examined in the context of the development of local self-governments and transformation of economic processes into market oriented economy following socioeconomic changes in Poland. The process of intense urbanization of the countryside is a common phenomenon that occurs specifically in rural areas that are within the impact zone of a big city. It is caused by i.a. human migration into rural areas as well as by development of areas of business activation. These tendencies, which occur both in the social and economic context, greatly affect ecological processes. Expansion of land development and the ensuing further development of necessary technical infrastructure give rise to numerous problems in natural environment. Ecophysiographic determinants play a vital role in the pursuit of sustainable development of the countryside in the aspect of threats that result from excessive urbanization of rural areas. The author discusses these issues on the example of a study of the village of Lubasz in the wielkopolskie voivodeship.

scholarly journals The Impact of Land Property on Rural-urban Migration

2021 ◽  
pp. 40-43
Author(s):  
Yikai Lin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Market Mechanism ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Rural Urban Migration ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

The paper focuses on how land property affects people’s choices of migration from rural areas to urban areas. Based on the empirical analysis, the conclusion can be achieved that the migration is improved under market mechanism. Therefore, if the country wants to stimulate the human migration from rural areas to urban areas, the market mechanism should be built and people’s land property should be protected.

scholarly journals The Economic Transformation of the Inca Heartland (Cuzco, Peru) in the Late Sixteenth Century

2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Alan Covey ◽  
Kylie E. Quave
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Land Access ◽  
Local Leadership ◽  
Inca Empire ◽  
Local Case ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Indigenous Land ◽  
Ecological Differences ◽  
Means Of Production

AbstractThis paper uses documents generated by the 1594–1595composiciones de tierrasin Cuzco, Peru, to discuss the economic transformation of the former heartland of the Inca Empire and the impact of Spanish administrative policies implemented in the early 1570s. The diverse social and environmental landscapes of rural areas lying to the west of Cuzco provide a range of local case studies that reveal how settlement and tribute policies of the viceroy Francisco de Toledo failed to produce sustainable colonial towns of Christian Indians. Detailed records of indigenous land repartition in the area show gender- and status-based patterns of individual allocations, as well as ecological differences in landholding between communities. The local records indicate the continuing importance of Inca-era community identities and local leadership for maintaining possession of community lands. By contrast, documents related to thecomposicionesamong private landowners reveal vast inequalities in land access, as well as the rapid growth in the demand for indigenous labor to produce important agrarian commodities. We argue that Spanish administrative policies accelerated the transformation of the means of production in rural Cuzco, creating peasants instead of Christian Indian subjects.

Financial Inclusion Through Microenterprises of Rural SHGs

2018 ◽  
pp. 269-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahul Vyas ◽  
Nidhi Nalwaya
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Financial Framework ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Self Help Group

The elementary aim of microenterprises and Self Help Groups (SHGs) is to empower the impoverished populace, particularly of the rural areas, and furthermore provide financial sustainability so as to improve livelihoods. The pervasive twin threats of unemployment and exclusion from the financial framework in the rural areas are the major challenges to the economic and social development of India. A self-help group is a potent means to remove poverty in the same vein microenterprises contribute significantly to economic development and social stability by affording employment opportunities, thereby emerging as a vehicle through which low-income people can escape poverty. SHGs and microenterprises are a significant means for socio-economic transformation through financial inclusion. The objective of the chapter is to study and analyze the impact of microenterprises and SHGs on the financial inclusion of people in rural areas of Tribal South Rajasthan.

scholarly journals Impact of good governance in the economic development of Western Balkan countries

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Engjell Pere
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Western Balkans ◽  
Governance Indicators ◽  
Balkan Countries ◽  
The Impact

After the socio-economic transformation and the establishment of the free market institutions, the development and improvement of living standards in post transition economies are deemed to depend more and more on the so called secondary “generating” reforms, at the core of which is the good governance. Drawing from this approach, this article seeks to address the role and the effect of the good governance in the economic development of the Western Balkans countries. More specifically, the article investigates the impact of good governance in the rates of economic growth of GDP. The article adopts a quantitative methodology approach, i.e. an econometric model based on the examination of a panel – data of good governance indicators for Western Balkans countries for the period 1996 – 2012. The analysis concentrates on the following Western Balkan Countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.

scholarly journals The Impact of Economic Freedom on Economic and Environmental Performance: Evidence from European Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2380
Author(s):  
Jonas Rapsikevicius ◽  
Jurgita Bruneckiene ◽  
Mantas Lukauskas ◽  
Sarunas Mikalonis
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Economic Freedom ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Optimal Level ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Environmental Measures ◽  
Performance Development ◽  
The Impact

The EU Green Deal and its impact on economic transformation provoked a slightly forgotten free market vs. market regulation discussion, but in the light of a new context—economic and environmental performance development. The economic shock caused by COVID-19, which transformed economies and societies, intensified this discussion. This article analyses the impact of economic freedom on economic performance and environmental performance in European countries. The article contributes to a gap in the literature, because, to date, research has examined the effects of economic freedom, or some of its components, on economic or environmental measures in groups of nations with a lacking sustainable development context. In addition, the mixed results obtained led to confusion in perceptions and knowledge about the influence and usefulness of economic freedom for economic and environmental performance. We also found mixed results regarding the influence of economic freedom on economic and environmental performance, but the introduction of a new concept—the optimal level of economic freedom—organized the different results into a coherent logical sequence. The paper provides original empirical evidence and specifies the targets of structural reforms. The results are thus useful for policymakers to develop more appropriate and efficient economic freedom.

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