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Socio-economic changes in the Rybnik conurbation (Poland) as a result of economic restructuring – a case study

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Spórna T., Kurpanik M.
Environmental & Socio-economic Studies
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2013
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vol. 1
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issue 1
38-47
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The Rybnik conurbation is an example of a traditional industrial area, where, due to economic restructuring, social and economic transformations are taking place. It is located in the Silesian voivodeship (southern Poland) and its development is mostly based on intensive coal mining after the Second World War. The article presents selected aspects of social and economic transformation happening in the area of the Rybnik conurbation after 1945 and connected with its rapid economic development in the 1960s and 70s, as well as with the systematic and economic transformation in Poland after 1989. The article was prepared on the base of subject literature, statistics and own studies. Population transformations have been analysed for the period 1980-2010, in each case, in relation to selected administrative units and three zones of the conurbation - the core, the inner and the outer areas. In order to evaluate and compare the demographic situation in the Rybnik conurbation in the years 1988 and 2008, a rank method has been applied. Community classification has been based on the total value of ranks for particular communities for the following variables: birth rate, population growth, net migration rate and the participation of the population in the pre-working and post-working age. The results of population transformation indicate that until 1991, the population of the Rybnik conurbation had been increasing (up to 197.7 thousand people). In the period 1991-2012, it decreased by 26.4 thousand (i.e. by 3.8%). In the same period of time, depopulation took place in the largest mining cities of the conurbation core (Wodzisław Śląski, 56.1%, connected with its administrative division into 4 towns and 1 rural community; Jastrzębie-Zdrój - 12.3%, Żory - 7.8% and Rybnik, to a lesser degree - 2.7%). The rank method that was applied has revealed the worsened demographic condition in the western communes of the conurbation (a shift from weak to bad). Simultaneously, in the period 1990-2012, the population gradually increased in the outer zone of the conurbation, by 6.8%. This indicates the process of suburbanisation taking place in the area. Demographic and economic changes in the Rybnik conurbation after 1989, in comparison to other mining areas in Poland and in Europe, seem to be less intensive.
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Koncepcje stymulowania rozwoju regionu pogórniczego - Zagłębie Ruhry w Niemczech

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Skowron E.
Studia Regionalne i Lokalne
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2011
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issue 1(43)
64-80
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The author of the paper describes the process and conceptions of regional development which have been used in the past 40 years of the economic transformation in the Ruhr Region in Germany. The article describes the socio-economic situation and explains the need for transformation in the region. It also presents a wide range of possible solutions for restructured mining regions and discusses the effects of implementation of the development methods used in the Ruhr Region. Finally, it describes the main points of the current strategy of development for the Ruhr Region. The data presented in the paper have been collected and developed thanks to a scholarship at the University of Duisburg-Essen, financed by The Foundation of Polish-German Cooperation.
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W artykule opisano proces i koncepcje rozwoju regionalnego, które stosowano w trwającej 40 lat transformacji gospodarczej Zagłębia Ruhry w Niemczech. Zawarty w pierwszej części opracowania zarys sytuacji społeczno-ekonomicznej podaje informacje o przyczynach gruntownych przemian w omawianym regionie. Opisane w dalszej kolejności koncepcje rozwoju Zagłębia Ruhry pokazują szeroki zakres możliwych do zastosowania wariantów na restrukturyzowanych terenach górniczych. Podsumowaniem tej części opracowania są zaprezentowane efekty wdrożenia stosowanych technik rozwoju w badanym regionie. W ostatnim rozdziale ujęto w zarysie problematykę obowiązującej strategii rozwoju dla Zagłębia Ruhry.
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