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One of the key challenges of present agriculture and rural areas is the pursuit of sustainable development. Encompassing enormous resources of a natural nature, rural areas should develop in accordance with the principles of sustainable development so that both current and future generations can benefit of them. Implementing the concept of sustainable development in rural areas is conditional on many factors and requires corrective activities, which is connected with the intervention of the state. The paper analyzes programs and instruments to support agricultural development and rural development in line with the concept of sustainable development at national and local level. Particular attention has been paid to “the Strategy of Lower Silesia Voivodship” and “Strategy for sustainable development of rural, agricultural and fisheries for 2012-2020”.
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The subject of the study is to determine the principles of investment planning in rural areas with the participation of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development. The paper discusses the principles of programming financial perspective 2014-2020, taking into account the need to coordinate support from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the Structural and Cohesion Funds. Attention has been paid to the need to coordinate support from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development in territorial terms, taking into account the standards of planning. Rural development should address the concern of its multi – functionality, where apart from the production function development of other functions to ensure the environmental protection, to maintain natural landscape and traditional cultural values are also assumed. Such approach requires taking into account the role of planning in view both strategic and development as well as spatial aspect.
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The study is to consider two issues in the field of nature conservation. The first of them comes down to the question, whether the legal regulation concerning the area forms of nature protection is a kind of universal, or contains specific instruments relating only to rural areas. The second of the issues raised, is an attempt to answer the question of whether the legal regulation concerning the protection of nature can be seen as implementing the principle of sustainable development, especially in relation to rural areas. The analysis leads to the conclusion that the legislature does not provide „special” regime of nature conservation in rural areas, and the provisions of the Nature Conservation Act in principle implement the directive sustainable development, despite the fact that the term does not appear in the provisions of this Act.
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The article aims at answering the following questions: 1) Is the definition of rural area necessary, at the time of ”predicted” development prospects of common agricultural policy after 2013? 2) Is a modern definition of rural area an answer to the multifunctional character of agriculture? 3) Are the considerations on this subject a good basis for the construction of a catalogue of modern rural areas? The analysis results in a conclusion that the key to a modern approach to the revision of the “conceptual design” of common agricultural policy is the acceptance of its exceptional character. New eclectic concepts arise, based on widely spread interdisciplinary elements. The open character of the concepts should not cause the loss of their identity and cannot mean any uncritical reception of concepts developed in normative systems of other countries. A modern model of multifunctional agriculture is determined by many factors, none of them being the leading element. All of them have a common feature by definition and the “buckle” is the inseparability of their functions. The non–production functions of agriculture are closely related to the production. Agriculture must exist and function in its production activity to effect its social, cultural, natural, service and environmental functions. A vast catalogue of various factors that determine a modern concept of rural area in the multifunctional agriculture forms the basis for their typology and divisions. The classifications of modern functions of rural areas, as proposed in professional literature, are relative. The divisions are not separable – some of the functions imply one another.
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In Poland, the changes taking place in rural areas are more and more visible. Local spatial development plans adopted by municipalities regulate the changes taking place. Spatial policy at the local level has a number of legal as well as economic, environmental and social effects. This paper indicates a way of balancing urbanized areas with agricultural areas by means of a legal act serving the implementation of the spatial policy of the Siewierz commune – the local spatial development plan. Protection of agricultural land is important due to the progressing urbanization and the increase of industrialization and services. Often, agricultural areas are supplanted by so-called "second homes" and the appearance of Różanów. Local spatial development plans then become a legal tool enforcing the protection of agricultural areas against progressing urbanization.
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The aim of this paper was to evaluate the intensity of rural area marginalisation. As a study region, Western periphery of Poland has been chosen. The spatial scope of the research covers three border voivodeships: Dolnośląskie, Lubuskie and Zachodniopomorskie, however, the study was conducted at the local level, including 310 rural and rural-urban gminas (administrative region of the 3rd order in Poland). The statistical data were derived from the Central Statistical Office from the period of last two decades. Results revealed the differences in the level of rural area marginalization and were analysed in terms of agricultural and socio-economic aspects.
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Rural area represents the population with a high work capacity, but with less employment opportunities than in urban areas, so in order to have a decent job 5 (five) needs are referred to: working conditions should be safe, both physically and mentally, people should have access to medical facilities, health, working hours should be ones in which you can rest and have time for family and compensation should be acceptable for the work done. The employment opportunities that people have differ depending on the environment they come from, so in rural areas the job opportunities are discrete, as it is the quality in work, both of them depending strongly on the area characteristics - whether it is developed or underdeveloped- and by its infrastructure, always considering that agriculture is most increased activity in these areas. The study aims to map and depict the occupational situation of people living in Romanian rural areas, coping with limited job opportunities, compared to those living in towns and cities, as well as how people in rural areas choose their jobs, how the labour market has influenced them to find a suitable job and where they can get or acquire the skills they need. As people in rural areas choose to migrate, the population is an ageing one and over time, villages will depopulate and the labour force and human resources will shrink.
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Research over the past decades has demonstrated that the social support impacts significantly on health of individuals and their ability to cope with stress. The purpose of this study was to examine the level and kinds of the received support and examine its predictors. The study was performed personally, using interviews based on the structural questionnaires. The group of respondents consisted of 203 people aged 65 years and over living in rural areas in Małopolska. The social support was evaluated by means of the Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey (MOS SSS) scale. The analysis of the collected research material was performed using the statistical package SPSS 19 for Windows and multivariate analysis techniques. The obtained results indicate that participants were experienced high level of instrumental support. In addition, the level and type of received support was determined by respondents: age, self-health assessment, disability in physical functioning and family situation.
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The rural areas of Castilla-La Mancha have managed to preserve a unique natural and cultural character. A great diversity of touristic qualities makes the region especially attractive for development of rural tourism. For many years, the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha had to cope with numerous socio-economic difficulties. Development of the tourist industry resulted in diversification of income sources and higher level of employment. Another positive effect of the process was activation of female members of the community. The principle aim of this article is to underline the complementary role of tourism in rural areas in relation to agriculture and urban tourism.
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Rural poverty appears in several European regions, particularly in post-socialist countries effected by a rapid transformation of socioeconomic system. In the past decade, rural regions may have reacted to challenges of contradictory processes. Migration trends are heterogeneous; unemployment, underemployment and lack of labour power are existing problems at the same time, in the same locality. In addition, the nature of poverty has changed recently. Traditional forms of pauperization are combined with helplessness and inability for future planning and saving up. Goods and status symbols of the consumer society have high importance in families with low incomes and high debt. The aim of this paper is to describe some crucial processes triggering the transformation of family life in rural Hungary by means of a qualitative research conducted in the South Transdanubian region of Hungary. We explored the actual problems and challenges from the viewpoints of local experts (social workers and mayors) and mothers from families connected to local social systems. We also aim to examine family attitudes to labour market, services and consumption, the most important factors effecting socioeconomic conditions of deprived social groups.
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This paper tries to identify the main factors influencing the decisions related to occupational choices of rural youth from Cluj County, Romania, thus contributing to a better understanding of the problems and opportunities of Romanian rural communities. In order to achieve this, the results of two surveys are compared: the first one was carried out in 2007 and the second in 2011. The two surveys adopted the same methodology, thus allowing us to test the stability of the outcomes over a period of four years and highlight the main changes occurring in that period. In 2011 information was collected also regarding the current situation of young people belonging to the first generation, thus the cross-sectional analysis has been completed with a longitudinal analysis. Results show that the educational choices of rural youth from Cluj County were not essentially modified in the period 2007-2011, but there is a growing uncertainty regarding their future profession. Most of them want to work in the services sector, the preference for agriculture remaining low and there is a clear and persistent gender division among chosen professions. The main factors identified as having an influence on continuing education are: gender (more girls opting for continuing education than boys), school results and parents’ attitude towards education. Based on the conclusions of the analysis, some policy implications are also discussed.
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The objective of this study was to analyze the influence of place of permanent residence (urban or rural) on the tourist activity of senior citizens (60+) of different socioeconomic statuses. The study involved 380 senior citizens (305 female and 75 male) aged 60 years and older who were permanent residents of the region of Warmia and Mazury, Poland. In this group, 244 subjects resided in urban areas and 136 participants were rural dwellers. The respondents were asked to complete a questionnaire regarding their socioeconomic status (place of permanent residence, age, gender, educational attainment, financial status, membership in senior organizations, marital status, and professional activity) and tourist activity. A significance test of two structure coefficients (α=0.05) was applied. Factors such as gender, professional activity, and marital status were not related with the travel propensity of seniors from different groups (urban and rural), but were significant when rural residents were compared with urban dwellers. Seniors residing in urban areas of Warmia and Mazury, Poland, were significantly more likely to travel for leisure than those residing in rural areas. The tourist activity of seniors decreased significantly (p<0.05) with the age (60-74 years) and financial status of rural residents. The travel propensity of elderly people increased significantly (p<0.05) with educational attainment and membership in senior organizations. The study revealed considerable differences in the socioeconomic status and social characteristics of seniors residing in rural and urban areas, and those variations significantly influenced their propensity for travel: urban residents traveled more frequently than rural residents. It can be concluded that place of residence was a crucial factor determining the tourist behavior of senior citizens, and urban dwellers were more likely to travel.
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Recent studies on socio-spatial polarization and post-socialist spaces increasingly propose the use of postcolonial theory. Following this proposal, the paper attempts to make the decolonial approach fruitful for studying the crucial role that discourses play for rural peripheralisation processes in post-socialist Estonia. It shows that the Estonian discourses on peripheries manifest in a struggle between neoliberalism and interventionism as two competing regional development models that promote either self- or state responsibility for dealing with peripheralisation. Despite their differences, both models build on the same notion of modernity, as the colonial history associated with socialist modernity renders alternative models obsolete.
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Purpose of the article The paper is seeking the mutual links between creativity, innovation and tourism in the rural areas. Creativity and innovation are often associated with cities, because the potential of creative industries and people is concentrated in cities. Is this assumption correct? Using examples from practice, this paper explains that creativity in tourism may be associated with the rural areas. Methodology/methods The contribution is linked with theoretical basis of creative economy under the research assignment APVV-0101-10 Creative economy - national economic and regional conditions and incentives. Therefore, it is based on analysis and comparison of views on possibilities for attracting the creative class to rural areas on one hand, and for development of creative activities within rural tourism on the other hand. Scientific aim The aim of the paper is to confirm the existence of real link between creativity, tourism and rural areas. Findings In the first part of the contribution, the basic terms as creativity, creative industry and creative class are explained and possibilities for their localization in rural areas are examined. Studies confirm that rural areas can become attractive environment for creative class despite problems like spatial diffusion of local resources and capacities and limited accessibility of capital. High-quality environment, attractive natural, cultural and historical potential and convenient infrastructure belong among the reasons for localization of creative class in rural areas. The same attributes are important for tourists who decide where to spend their free time. Conclusions Consequently, the support for development of rural tourism is understood in the paper as an instrument to improve the quality of places (municipalities) as well as to attract creative class and creative industries to rural municipalities. In the second part, the emphasis is put on definition of creative tourism as a creative industry based on creative activities. Examples of well-developed creative tourism in Europe are also given in this part, namely thematic routes connecting rural and urban municipalities, presenting them under certain theme issuing from local or regional culture and traditions.
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In Polish law there is no legal definition of the rural area, but is it a mistake of Polish legislator who did not introduce this term? However, legislature of the European Union also did not define this term but there is a lot of legal acts which use this concept without defining this content. The concept of rural area is determined by economic, social, demographic, and cultural development. It is obvious that the rural area in recent years is still evolving. The concept of mono-functional development of the rural area has been transformed into the concept of multifunctional development. Multi-functional development of rural areas on the one hand, the development of non-agricultural activities and restructuring of agriculture on the other. The concept of the rural area in the old and new agricultural policy is determined by three factors: social structure, spatial structure and production structure. The new agricultural policy is also a question of financing widely understood agriculture from the Rural Development Programmes. Through these programs, the definition of the rural area is modified, depending on the specific actions for which European Union funding is granted. No single definition of the rural area in the Polish legal system should be viewed as negative for the Polish legislator. The search criteria for separating the rural area should be based on flexible and diversified grounds, among others, location of the rural area in the country, development of rural space, depending on the environment and whether related to the quality of the local community.
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W polskim ustawodawstwie nie ma legalnej definicji obszaru wiejskiego, ale czy to oznacza, że polski ustawodawca popełnił błąd, nie wprowadzając takiego pojęcia? Otóż unijny ustawodawca również go nie zdefiniował, a jednak istnieje wiele aktów prawnych, które się nim posługują, jednocześnie nie definiując jego treści. Pojęcie obszaru wiejskiego determinowane jest przez rozwój czynników ekonomicznych, społecznych, demograficznych czy kulturalnych. Oczywiste jest, że obszar wiejski wciąż ewoluuje. Koncepcja monofunkcyjnego rozwoju obszaru wiejskiego została przekształcona w koncepcję wielofunkcyjnego rozwoju. Wielofunkcyjny rozwój terenów wiejskich to z jednej strony rozwój pozarolniczej działalności gospodarczej, a z drugiej restrukturyzacja rolnictwa. Pojęcie obszaru wiejskiego w starej i nowej polityce rolnej determinują trzy czynniki: struktura społeczna, struktura przestrzenna oraz struktura produkcyjna. Nowa polityka rolna to także kwestia dofinansowania szeroko rozumianego rolnictwa ze środków Programów Rozwoju Obszarów Wiejskich. W ich ramach definicja obszaru wiejskiego ulega modyfikacjom w zależności od konkretnego działania, na rzecz którego przyznawane jest unijne dofinansowanie. Braku jednej definicji obszaru wiejskiego w polskim systemie prawnym nie należy rozpatrywać w kategoriach negatywnych dla polskiego ustawodawcy. Poszukiwanie kryteriów wyodrębnienia obszaru wiejskiego powinno być oparte na elastycznych i zróżnicowanych przesłankach, m.in. na umiejscowieniu obszaru wiejskiego w kraju, zagospodarowaniu przestrzeni wiejskiej, zależnościach środowiskowych czy zależnościach związanych z jakością lokalnej społeczności.
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One of the main tasks of modern civilization is development according to a New Paradigm, so-called sustainable development.It involves economic and social de-velopment with respect to the state of environment. Demands of sustainable development involve the notion of intergenerational justice, which provides the possibilities of meeting the requirements of humanity in the future. A man constitutes the centre of interest and is the main subject of sustainable development. Its superior aim is to fulfill the needs and aspirations of people, especially the improvement of their standard and quality of life. The work presents analysis of theoretical and empirical issues connected with the development, as well as the standard and quality of life of rural areas population in the region of Lower Silesia, taking into account its functional regions. The analysis made use of sustainable development indexes, basing on normalization method. The mentioned indexes involved housing conditions, as well as expenses connected with housing, health, culture and sport. Areas situated in the surrounding of larger urban agglomerations with higher potential of development, proved to acquire higher standards and quality of life. From the regional point of view the lowest values featured region I of rural character. Research results clearly defined the standard and quality of life of rural areas population in Lower Silesian voivodeship, as well as the changes in these two examined parameters, which confirmed the results of the research conducted in the territory of the whole country.
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Jednym z głównych zadań dzisiejszej cywilizacji jest rozwój według nowego paradygmatu tzw. zrównoważonego rozwoju. Jest on procesem uwzględniającym rozwój gospodarczy i społeczny z poszanowaniem stanu środowiska. Postulaty zrównoważonego rozwoju zawierają pojęcie sprawiedliwości międzypokoleniowej, dającej możliwości zaspokajania potrzeb ludzkości w przyszłości. Człowiek stanowi centrum zainteresowania i jest centralnym podmiotem zrównoważonego rozwoju. Jego nadrzędnym celem jest zaspokojenie potrzeb i aspiracji ludzi, a szczególnie poprawa ich poziomu i jakości życia. W pracy przedstawiono analizę zagadnień teoretycznych i empirycznych dotyczących rozwoju oraz poziomu i jakości życia ludności obszarów wiejskich Dolnego Śląska z podziałem na jego regiony funkcjonalne. W analizie posłużono się wskaźnikami zrów-noważonego rozwoju z wykorzystaniem metody normalizacji. Wskaźniki dotyczyły wa-runków mieszkaniowych, a także wydatków na mieszkania, zdrowie oraz kulturę i sport. Obszary położone w otoczeniu większych aglomeracji miejskich, z większymi możliwo-ściami rozwoju, wykazywały się korzystniejszymi warunkami poziomu i jakości życia. W ujęciu regionalnym najmniejsze wartości uzyskiwał region I o charakterze rolniczym. Otrzymane wyniki jednoznacznie określiły poziom i jakość życia ludności obszarów wiej-skich województwa dolnośląskiego oraz jego zmiany, potwierdzając badania prowadzone na terenie całego kraju.
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W artykule przedstawiona została problematyka działalności nauczycieli na rzecz wyrównywania szans edukacyjnych uczniów ze środowisk wiejskich. Podstawą rozważań są badania empiryczne przeprowadzone w szkołach wiejskich zlokalizowanych w powiecie kieleckim. Teoretyczną podstawą badań jest pedagogika emancypacyjna, zaś w jej obrębie, emancypacyjna teoria edukacji w ujęciu M. Czerepaniak-Walczak. Wyniki badań ukazały niedostateczną wiedzę nauczycieli pracujących na wsi na temat nierówności edukacyjnych, istniejących w ich środowisku czynników utrudniających edukację dzieci i młodzieży oraz możliwości ich niwelowania. Przyczyną tego stanu rzeczy może być to, że polscy nauczyciele nie są odpowiednio przygotowani na podjęcie wielu nowych problemów i wyzwań.
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The article discusses the actions of teachers aimed at equalizing educational opportunities of students from rural areas. The analysis relies on the empirical research conducted in the rural schools located in Kielce County. The article is based on the pedagogy of emancipation, and within this pedagogy, on the emancipation theory of education presented by M. Czerepaniak-Walczak. The results of the research showed insufficient knowledge of the teachers working in the country, regarding educational inequalities, the existence of factors impeding education of children and youth, as well as the possibilities to reduce these disparities. The reason for such a situation might be the fact that Polish teachers are not appropriately prepared to face many new problems and challenges.
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Rural areas of the Silesian Lowland, undergoing social and economic transformations today, have had a strong impact on the formation of the region’s settlement landscapes. Political and economic changes after 1989 have affected the development of rural areas, in particular of ‘privileged’ settlements for which the proximity of towns and a trunk road are favourable factors. The result of these seemingly positive factors is the escape of young people (potential farmers) to the cities and an influx of new settlers. This affects social behaviour and activity, as well as the visual rural landscape, creating suburban zones with residential and leisure functions. The village seems to have lost its typical character but has it really? The subject of the research is, therefore, an analysis of changes in the spatial and social structure of a rural village as exemplified by Borek Strzeliński, which allows setting out its functions. The research issue is to determine the level of social activity of rural residents and their attitude towards the local cultural heritage, which influences their identity and the value of the landscape. The use of integrated methods of field work based on a free sociological survey has allowed identifying the spatial directions of village development and threats resulting from divided social activity.
Oeconomia Copernicana
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2020
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vol. 11
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issue 2
325-346
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Research background: In the past, the main objective of a company was to generate sufficient profit. Nowadays, a company must seek to achieve much broader objectives. To be successful in this pursuit, it must not only measure financial performance, but also monitor internal and external developments, increase shareholders' wealth and protect the interests of other stakeholders, i.e. to analyze and act on those factors that affect company value. Purpose of the article: The objective of the contribution is to determine through the use of artificial neural networks the relationship between business value drivers, or value based drivers (VBD), and EVA Equity, which is economic value added (EVA), of small and medium-sized enterprises operating in the rural areas of the Czech Republic. Methods: The data was obtained from the Bisnode´s Albertina database. The data set consists of the profit and loss accounts for 2013 to 2017 of small and medium-sized enterprises operating in rural areas of the Czech Republic. Two scenarios are analyzed. In the first, the independent variables are only the value drivers, whereas in the second, company location (region) is included. The objective is to find the dependence of EVA Equity on individual VBD and company location. A sensitivity analysis is conducted, on the basis of which the importance of individual value drivers and company location is determined. Findings & Value added: The output is a set of value drivers, which could be used by company managers to regulate the growth of EVA Equity, i.e. value for shareholders. The findings reveal that the difference between successful and unsuccessful companies is determined by the level of involvement of human capital; companies use a large number of substitutes for factors of production, whereby the involvement of borrowed capital is likely to cause a positive financial leverage effect.
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The phrase ‘rural areas’ mean not only the place for agricultural production and the living place of rural population, but also refer to all the traditions, landscape, environment and residents of these areas. Rural development is highly supported at the EU level and it helps to enhance the quality of life of rural residents and the economic performance of rural areas. According to some points of view, the excessive support should be cut down, but the primary objectives of the CAP should be maintained. The threats of the economic crisis appear more significantly in rural areas. What are the possible ways to increase the economic situation of these areas, where poverty is high, education level is low and the population is aging? Working facilities are mostly connected with agriculture, but the financial background and competitiveness of agricultural enterprises is rather low. The environment and landscape should be preserved. How can all these problems be solved at the same time? How can the environment be preserved in line with the development of the rural areas? The renewed CAP was outlined in November 2010. This paper tries to examine the visions of rural areas for the future.
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