Preferences of poles concerning the shape of regional policy and the allocation of European funds

The social reception of economic development processes has been underrated in studies conducted so far. The scarcity of such analyses may be perceived as a problem especially in the case of CEE states, in which economic growth has often been accompanied by a deepening of the socio-economic inequalities in the recent years. This article aims to identify the preferences of Poles concerning the goals of regional policy and the assignment of the European funds. Special attention was given to the differences among various categories of residents, examined in terms of their places of residence, occupational status, education, and age. The research has shown a highly positive attitude of Poles concerning the European funds, and statistically significant relations between selected socio-demographic characteristics of Poles and their preferences concerning the places and fields of activity to which the funds should go</p

Equalising or polarising: The centre–periphery model and the absorption of EU funds under regional operational programmes in Poland

This article seeks to assess how the absorption of European the Union funds by the Polish voivodeships reflects two basic types of strategy in their allocation, i.e. the polarising and the equalising model. The analysis embraced 16 regional operational programmes (ROPs) between 2007–2013. The frame of reference adopted in the research was the centre-periphery model. Classes of peripherality were distinguished for each voivodeship, and absorption profiles of EU funds were determined for areas differing in their levels of peripherality. The goal of the article was achieved in a multi-stage research procedure ending in the construction of a synthetic index of the spatial orientation of support within the ROPs. The analysis demonstrated that the features of the polarising model tended to predominate in intra-regional policy. In most cases, however, the distribution of EU support represented a mixed model, with a shift towards the polarising one

Spatial organisation of the emergency medical system in Poland

Wydział Nauk Geograficznych i Geologicznych: Instytut Geografii Społeczno-Ekonomicznej i Gospodarki PrzestrzennejDysertacja mieści się w nurcie geograficznych badań nad zdrowiem i jego ochroną, a jej przedmiotem był polski system świadczenia usług ratunkowo-medycznych. Głównym zamiarem opracowania było przedstawienie organizacji przestrzennej systemu Państwowe Ratownictwo Medyczne w kontekście dostępności oferowanych usług oraz możliwości optymalizacji rozmieszczenia ruchomych jednostek systemu. W ramach teoretycznego wprowadzenia do podjętej w pracy problematyki, zawarto rozważania na temat geografii medycznej i dostępności ochrony zdrowia oraz dokonano przeglądu geograficznych badań nad ratownictwem medycznym. W dalszej części pracy szeroko opisano polski system ratownictwa medycznego, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem jego organizacji instytucjonalno-prawnej, charakterystyki jednostek systemu oraz źródeł i sposobów finansowania usług ratunkowych. Wyniki przeprowadzonej inwentaryzacji zasobów oraz analizy funkcjonowania szpitalnej oraz przedszpitalnej części systemu ratownictwa medycznego pozwoliły na stwierdzenie zależności pomiędzy organizacją przestrzenną a dostępnością usług ratunkowo-medycznych. Zastosowana w toku prowadzonych badań analiza regresji pozwoliła na zidentyfikowanie czynników wezwań ratunkowych oraz ich geograficznego zróżnicowania. Pracę zakończono próbą opracowania modelu optymalizującego rozmieszczenie ruchomych jednostek systemu na obszarze aglomeracji poznańskiej.The dissertation is an example of a geographical study of health and its protection, and its subject is the Polish system of emergency medical services. The chief aim of the dissertation was to present the spatial organisation of the State Emergency Medicine system in terms of access to the services offered and a possible optimisation of the distribution of its mobile units. As a theoretical introduction to the subject, some observations on medical geography and access to health-care were made, and a survey of the geographical research on emergency medicine was undertaken. In the next part of the work, the Polish emergency medical system was described at length, with special focus on its institutional-legal organisation, characteristics of its units, and the sources and ways of financing emergency services. The results of the inventory of resources and the analysis of the hospital-based and pre-hospital part of the emergency medical system revealed a dependence between the spatial organisation and the access to emergency medical services. Regression analysis applied in the research enabled to identify factors of emergency calls and their geographical heterogeneity. The dissertation closes with a proposal of a model optimising the distribution of the system's mobile units in the Poznań agglomeration

Wpływ utraty statusu ośrodka wojewódzkiego na rozwój miast

Celem artykułu jest porównanie stanu i dynamiki rozwoju 49 polskich miast – byłych i aktualnych stolic wojewódzkich – prowadzące do określenia zróżnicowania oraz zmian ich kondycji gospodarczej, sytuacji demograficznej oraz zainwestowania infrastrukturalnego. W postępowaniu badawczym wykorzystano metodę odległości od wzorca umożliwiającą wielowymiarową analizę porównawczą na podstawie zmiennych syntetycznych. Wyniki badań wskazują, że byłe miasta wojewódzkie znajdują się w gorszej sytuacji rozwojowej w stosunku do miast, które w wyniku reformy samorządowej z 1999 roku zachowały status ośrodka wojewódzkiego

Spatial cross-regressive models in the study of the spatial diffusion of innovation in Central Europe

In the paper, spatial cross-regressive models were used for the identification of the processes of the spatial diffusion of innovations in Central Europe. As it is difficult to measure the diffusion of innovations directly, the empirical part of the work was based on symptomatic indicators. In the course of the research, the author undertook to show how variables indicating the level of innovation (considered to be independent variables) shaped the efficiency of work, expressed as the indicator of gross value added per worker (modelled dependent variable). The regression analysis conducted showed that there was a statistically significant link between innovation and the efficiency of work in Central European countries, also in the dimension of spatial interactions among regions. Econometric modelling led to the conclusion that the spatial diffusion of innovations occurred

Spatial organisation of the emergency medical system in Poland

Wydział Nauk Geograficznych i Geologicznych: Instytut Geografii Społeczno-Ekonomicznej i Gospodarki PrzestrzennejDysertacja mieści się w nurcie geograficznych badań nad zdrowiem i jego ochroną, a jej przedmiotem był polski system świadczenia usług ratunkowo-medycznych. Głównym zamiarem opracowania było przedstawienie organizacji przestrzennej systemu Państwowe Ratownictwo Medyczne w kontekście dostępności oferowanych usług oraz możliwości optymalizacji rozmieszczenia ruchomych jednostek systemu. W ramach teoretycznego wprowadzenia do podjętej w pracy problematyki, zawarto rozważania na temat geografii medycznej i dostępności ochrony zdrowia oraz dokonano przeglądu geograficznych badań nad ratownictwem medycznym. W dalszej części pracy szeroko opisano polski system ratownictwa medycznego, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem jego organizacji instytucjonalno-prawnej, charakterystyki jednostek systemu oraz źródeł i sposobów finansowania usług ratunkowych. Wyniki przeprowadzonej inwentaryzacji zasobów oraz analizy funkcjonowania szpitalnej oraz przedszpitalnej części systemu ratownictwa medycznego pozwoliły na stwierdzenie zależności pomiędzy organizacją przestrzenną a dostępnością usług ratunkowo-medycznych. Zastosowana w toku prowadzonych badań analiza regresji pozwoliła na zidentyfikowanie czynników wezwań ratunkowych oraz ich geograficznego zróżnicowania. Pracę zakończono próbą opracowania modelu optymalizującego rozmieszczenie ruchomych jednostek systemu na obszarze aglomeracji poznańskiej.The dissertation is an example of a geographical study of health and its protection, and its subject is the Polish system of emergency medical services. The chief aim of the dissertation was to present the spatial organisation of the State Emergency Medicine system in terms of access to the services offered and a possible optimisation of the distribution of its mobile units. As a theoretical introduction to the subject, some observations on medical geography and access to health-care were made, and a survey of the geographical research on emergency medicine was undertaken. In the next part of the work, the Polish emergency medical system was described at length, with special focus on its institutional-legal organisation, characteristics of its units, and the sources and ways of financing emergency services. The results of the inventory of resources and the analysis of the hospital-based and pre-hospital part of the emergency medical system revealed a dependence between the spatial organisation and the access to emergency medical services. Regression analysis applied in the research enabled to identify factors of emergency calls and their geographical heterogeneity. The dissertation closes with a proposal of a model optimising the distribution of the system's mobile units in the Poznań agglomeration

The Diversification of Communes’ Revenue from Real Estate across Provinces

The aim of this paper is to identify the spatial differentiation of revenue from real estate in communes’ budgets across Polish provinces. We discuss property fees and taxes which feed into the communes’ budgets. We also present the assumptions of the research procedure which enabled us to distinguish classes of provinces according to revenues from real estate. In a further section of the paper, we analyze per capita revenues from real estate and the share of these revenues in the own income of communes among the distinguished classes of distance from the province capital. The results of our study show that, in the years under discussion, there are clear differences between spatial regularities in both scopes of analysis (the level of per capita income from real estate and the share of revenue from properties in the communes’ own income)

Spatial and Statistical Analysis of Urban Poverty for Sustainable City Development

One of the main pillars of sustainable urban development at the local scale is to control the social aspect of urban equality of socio-economic systems. A number of studies confirm that poverty in urban space is accompanied by negative phenomena, such as high unemployment, social pathologies, increased crime rate, or the high level of the decapitalization of space, including the poor condition of housing and municipal infrastructure. However, there is a gap in defining the relation between urban poverty and city structure to control and preferably minimize social inequalities. The aim of the study was to empirically verify the impact of the location of residential properties in relation to poverty-stricken areas in the city. The research covered the housing market in one Polish city (Kalisz) in the years 2006–2018. By applying GIS technologies, we identified the location of each property in relation to poverty areas. The data was subjected to regression analysis, with the use of the hedonic approach based on exponential models. The analysis of data allowed us to conclude that location in a poorer area does affect the prices of new flats, which is not only a contribution to the development of science, but is also information that could be used by developers or property valuers to establish the prices of flats, as well as city managers to avoid pauperization of urban districts

Spatial and Statistical Analysis of Urban Poverty for Sustainable City Development

One of the main pillars of sustainable urban development at the local scale is to control the social aspect of urban equality of socio-economic systems. A number of studies confirm that poverty in urban space is accompanied by negative phenomena, such as high unemployment, social pathologies, increased crime rate, or the high level of the decapitalization of space, including the poor condition of housing and municipal infrastructure. However, there is a gap in defining the relation between urban poverty and city structure to control and preferably minimize social inequalities. The aim of the study was to empirically verify the impact of the location of residential properties in relation to poverty-stricken areas in the city. The research covered the housing market in one Polish city (Kalisz) in the years 2006&ndash;2018. By applying GIS technologies, we identified the location of each property in relation to poverty areas. The data was subjected to regression analysis, with the use of the hedonic approach based on exponential models. The analysis of data allowed us to conclude that location in a poorer area does affect the prices of new flats, which is not only a contribution to the development of science, but is also information that could be used by developers or property valuers to establish the prices of flats, as well as city managers to avoid pauperization of urban districts

Recurrent Property Taxes in Communal Budgets – Identification of Types of Communes and their Spatial Differentiation

The main aim of this paper is to identify differences between Polish communes as regards their revenues from property taxes. To this end, we distinguished and described types of communes with similar configurations of features under analysis (incomes from real property tax, agricultural tax and forest tax). In the research procedure, we applied methods of multidimensional analysis, with particular emphasis on cluster analysis. The research was conducted on the basis of aggregated (to eliminate random fluctuations) values of income from properties in the years 2013-2015. On the basis of typological classification, we distinguished six clusters (groups) of communes of different quantitative characteristics of budget revenues from property taxes. We identified specific regularities in the distribution of the distinguished commune types