scholarly journals Changes in the Spatial Distribution of the Level and Dynamics of Socio-Economic Development of Rural Areas in Poland

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Stanny ◽  
Andrzej Rosner ◽  
Edyta Kozdroń
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Spatial Differentiation ◽  
Spatial Diversity ◽  
Development Level ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Contemporary Reality

Abstract: This article shows the characteristics of spatial differentiation of level and dynamics of socio-economic development of rural areas in Poland. The Authors try to define typical directions of the development of gminas and look for an answer to the question: what, and what gminas’ features, determine the direction of development? The analysis presented in the paper has been based on the data originating from the Rural Development Monitoring Project. The results showed the differentiation of the development level to be a part of very dynamic contemporary reality. Criteria up to this date documented in research and arranging spatial diversity of social and economic phenomena apply specifically to description of the development’s level, while dynamics is being arranged by a different criteria. Moreover, the research describes four basic profiles of the dynamics of gminas’ development.

scholarly journals EVALUATION OF SPATIAL DIFFERENTIATION OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AREAS IN MAZOWIECKIE PROVINCE IN YEARS 2004-2016

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariola CHRZANOWSKA ◽  
Monika ZIELIŃSKA-SITKIEWICZ
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Spatial Differentiation ◽  
Research Area ◽  
The Other ◽  
Linear Ordering ◽  
Economic Diversification ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Impact

Mazowieckie Province is a unique area of Poland. It is characterised by social and economic diversification. Located in this province, Warsaw strongly influences the development of neighbouring rural areas. On the other hand, rural municipalities whose socio-economic parameters are among the lowest in the country are located within several dozen kilometres from the centre of the capital. Such disparities show that Mazowieckie is characterised by large interregional differences in its internal structure. This is an interesting research area that requires the analysis of socio-economic development in this region to be conducted in a multidimensional way. The aim of this study is to evaluate the spatial differentiation of the level of socio-economic development of rural areas in Mazowieckie Province. Linear ordering was used to determine the level of socio-economic development. The results of the study are consistent with core-periphery theory. The large urban centres that function as the centres for the surrounding rural areas have the greatest impact on the level of rural development. The impact of smaller towns can also be noticed. They often are the local development centres for surrounding villages.

scholarly journals CROATIAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX AND REGIONAL DISPARITIES IN SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF EU FUNDS FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT

2018 ◽  
pp. 40-58
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Member State ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Rural Regions ◽  
Development Index ◽  
Rural Development Programme ◽  
The Republic

The EU funds are an important factor in the development process of any new member state of the European Union. As such, EU funds support modernization and help facilitate further economic development in a member state, including its rural regions. The Republic of Croatia, based on NUTS3 classification, is predominantly rural with 79.01% of its territory being rural and 56.07% of population living in rural areas. Therefore, rural development is an integral part of overall economic development of the country. In order to improve competitiveness of Croatian agriculture sector, especially its small family farms, it is crucial to invest in their means of production and modernization of their assets. Funds awarded within the EAFRD framework in The Republic of Croatia tend to facilitate this process and further aid rural development. Croatian Development Index has a very important role in allocation of before mentioned funds. Its values are taken as criteria for state-aided areas, scoring projects (including EAFRD and other EU funds applications) and other aspects of public development policies. As one of the primary goals of Rural Development Programme in the Republic of Croatia, it is especially important to achieve a more balanced territorial development of rural areas given the fact that Croatian rural regions (counties and municipalities) are not equally developed, ensuring job creation and job retention in the process. The existence of disparities in the level of development is not a characteristic that can be found only in the Republic of Croatia, but it is an issue that should be taken into account when devising or reconsidering criteria for allocation of future EU funds in the Republic of Croatia, in order to further reduce regional disparities in the level of development. The aim of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on associations between the indicators of Croatian Development Index and spatial distribution of EU funds awarded within the Rural Development programme in The Republic of Croatia based on available data for the most recent invitation to tender for EAFRD funds.

scholarly journals Spatial differences in the level of population and settlement development in Wielkopolskie voivodship (1)

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (24) ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Barbara Konecka-Szydłowska ◽  
Henryk Maćkowiak
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Reference System ◽  
Reference Systems ◽  
Settlement Development ◽  
Development Level ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Spatial Differences ◽  
Comparison Of The Results ◽  
Development Trajectories

Abstract. Population and settlement are among aspects determining the level of socio-economic development. This paper analyses spatial differences in the level of development of the population and settlement in Wielkopolskie voivodship in Poland. The period studied embraces the years 2000-2010 and the units examined are those of the local NUTS 4 level, i.e. poviats. Two modes differing in the reference system were employed for the analysis, which was carried out (a) at the level of the population and settlement development of poviats in Wielkopolskie voivodship against all the poviats in Poland, and (b) again at the level of the population and settlement development of Wielkopolska poviats, but in abstraction from the rest of the country. In each of those reference systems a study was made of (a) the spatial distribution of the development level of Wielkopolskie voivodship in population and settlement terms to identify its growth and stagnation areas by poviat, at the levels of the country and the voivodship, and (b) the development trajectories of those two types of areas over the study period, at the voivodship level. The paper ends in a comparison of the results obtained using the two modes of analysis.

scholarly journals Spatial Differentiation of the Socio-Economic Development of Poland–“Invisible” Historical Heritage

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1247
Author(s):  
Paweł Churski ◽  
Tomasz Herodowicz ◽  
Barbara Konecka-Szydłowska ◽  
Robert Perdał
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Spatial Differentiation ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Synthetic Index ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Research Procedure ◽  
Spatial Diversification ◽  
Historical Heritage

The analysis aims to identify spatial variations of socio-economic development in Poland at the local level and to determine their correlation with conditions resulting from the historical political divisions of today’s areas of the country. The research procedure helps to verify the hypothesis that spatial differentiation of socio-economic development in Poland is permanent and does not show significant changes during periods of economic growth and crisis. We can emphasize at the same time the persisting differences between cities and their functional areas on the one hand and rural areas on the other. The study applied an innovative procedure of determining the synthetic index. The procedure of classifying local units presented in the text was based on the original random forest method. The outcomes confirm that contemporary spatial diversification at the level of socio-economic development in Poland is still strongly conditioned by history, especially by the socio-economic consequences of the partition of Poland between the three superpowers (Russia, Prussia and Austria). This is evident in the synthetic presentation of the level of socio-economic development. However, in the case of certain socio-economic phenomena, the values of indicators describing them no longer directly relate in their diversity to historical borders, particularly the former partition borders.

scholarly journals Spatial Determinants of Business Location in Rural Areas

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Kłodziński ◽  
Patrycjusz Zarębski
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Linear Model ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Southern Poland ◽  
Determination Coefficient ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Stable Development

The aim of the discussion in this paper was to identify types of gminas due to the dynamics of enterprise occurrence with respect to the level of socio-economic development. Four types of gminas were described, namely: sustainably developing, unstably developing, slowly developing ones as well as those immune to deve lopment. As a result of statistical analysis it was found out that the spatial distribution of the number of enterprises is not determined by the level of socio-economic development, which was confirmed by low correlation and low value of determination coefficient for the linear model. A low dynamics of enterprises’ development in northern Poland, and in the border gminas in the eastern and north-eastern parts of the country was noted. The map of types (models) of socio-economic development of Poland shows polarization. There is a clear division between gminas characterized by stable development, which are located mainly in the western and southern Poland, and the gminas featuring unstable development, which are located predominantly in the eastern part of Poland.

scholarly journals Transformation of rural settlement and sustainability of rural development in the region

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 232-243
Author(s):  
Vladimir Tikhii ◽  
Olga Koreva
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural Settlement ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Village

The current socio-economic situation in rural areas is characterized by a number of problems that hinder sustainable development. The low quality of life, the existing level and quality of life in the village, the lack of social infrastructure, the environmental situation, limited opportunities for work in the village, low incomes of the population compared to the city had a significant impact on the process of migration and deterioration of the quality of the labor force, depopulation of the rural population. In this context, the solution to the problem of rural settlement development is very relevant. The regional leadership chooses the direction of rural development without taking into account the current socio-economic situation at the municipal level and the peculiarities of rural settlement development, which reduces the effectiveness of territorial administration. The level of rural development was assessed on the example of the Orel region. The current socio-economic situation in rural areas is characterized by many problems that hinder its transition to sustainable development. The problem of depopulation of the population in rural areas is revealed. At the same time, the destruction of social and engineering infrastructure is observed, the area of cultivated land is reduced, and differences in the level of socio-economic development of the periphery, semi-periphery and suburban areas are increasing. The analysis of the differences in the socio-economic development of the municipalities of the Orel region indicates an increase in intraregional differentiation during the period under review and the absence of an effective intraregional policy aimed at reducing the existing socio-economic asymmetry within the subject of the Federation. Proposals for its solution have been developed, which should be implemented in the context of continuous monitoring of the state and development.

scholarly journals THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO LOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF RURAL AREAS

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-119
Author(s):  
Maciej Stawicki
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Socio Economic Development

The aim of the work is to make a synthetic review of definitions of regional and local development in economic terms in relation to rural development. Rural development is a topic often taken up in scientific research by sociologists, geographers and economists, but it is not defined in a specific way, and is usually understood as development in relation to rural areas. Therefore, the paper presents an overview of various approaches to local development and regional development, using the method of literature studies. The work has reviewed many approaches, features and definitions of socio-economic development as well as regional and local development, which also refer to rural areas and finally proposed a place for rural development in regional and local development.

scholarly journals Spatial diversity of absorption of EU Assistance funds and the level of socio-economic development in Poland

2019 ◽  
pp. 73-85
Author(s):  
Roman Rudnicki ◽  
Anna Dubownik ◽  
Barbara Szyda ◽  
Czesław Adamiak
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Spatial Diversity ◽  
Cohesion Policy ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Financial Framework ◽  
Per Capita

The article presents the level and spatial structure of the absorption of EU funds within Cohesion Policy and Common Agricultural Policy during the 2007–2013 EU financial framework in Poland. The data analysed include all of the payments from European programmes, divided into two groups: the support dedicated for the development of agriculture and rural areas, and the cohesion policy. It has been demonstrated that the level and structure of delivery of these funds is spatially diversified. The index of the absorption of EU funds per capita is negatively correlated with the level of socio-economic development, which results from the allocation of payments dedicated for development of agriculture and rural areas. The distribution of cohesion funds is not correlated with the level of socio-economic development in poviats.

scholarly journals НАПРЯМКИ ПІДВИЩЕННЯ ЕФЕКТИВНОСТІ ЛІСОВОГО КОМПЛЕКСУ СІЛЬСЬКИХ ТЕРИТОРІЙ РЕСПУБЛІКИ КОМИ

2019 ◽  
pp. 115-124
Author(s):  
В. А. Носков ◽  
М. А. Шишелов ◽  
Т. Е. Дмитриева
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Spatial Differentiation ◽  
Komi Republic ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
The North ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Territorial Differentiation ◽  
The Republic

The forestry complex plays an important role in the rural economy of the municipalities of the Komi Republic. However, due to the nature of the distribution of forest resources and types of forestry activities, its effectiveness and impact on the socio-economic development of territories is different. This provision actualizes the development of a methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of the forest complex in rural areas of the Komi Republic and proposals for directions and mechanisms for its improvement. The purpose of the research is to develop ways to improve the efficiency of the forest complex of rural areas of the Komi Republic. The object of the research is the methodology for assessing the efficiency of the forest complex in rural areas of the Komi Republic, as well as the directions for its improvement. The hypothesis of the research is to measure the effectiveness of the functioning of the forest complex of the region based on the structural-territorial differentiation of territories. The methods used of the research. The methodological features of the study are: structuring the efficiency of the forest complex on the production, socio-economic, spatial and bioeconomic; use of a set of indicators characterizing these aspects of efficiency; aggregation of indicators into group and final efficiency ratings by districts; analysis of the factors that determined the spatial differentiation of the efficiency of the forest complex. The statement of basic materials. As a result of a study on a structured set of indicators, a picture of the structural and territorial differentiation of the efficiency of timber industry activity was obtained, formed by the distribution of relevant indicators characterizing the influence of various factors using a rating score. The modern limitations of the development of the forest complex of municipalities of the republic with a rural economy are highlighted. The оriginality and practical significance of the research lies in the possibility of conducting a typology of rural areas according to the level of efficiency of the forest complex, as well as proposing directions and mechanisms for its improvement, applicable to each group of districts. Conclusions of the research. An integrated assessment of the efficiency of the forest complex of rural areas has allowed to identify areas with high, medium and low levels of efficiency, as well as a separate group of areas with “non-forest” specialization or with a weak forest industry. Prospects for the further use of the results obtained can be adjusted by the strategy of socio-economic development of territories, as well as new approaches to the location of productive forces in the North.

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