A green economy in major regional cities of Poland – the status of its implementation and transformations in the public sector

Plac, Klaudia

doi:10.15611/pn.2019.2.07

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“…Bankier.pl estimates that 70% of the economy is dependent on weather events (Bankier.pl, n.d.). What might be of interest to the field of economics in this respect is the changes in the value system that come with the models of: ecological resilience (Domański, 2012); environmental and ecological economics; sustainable growth (Borys, 2013;Sunkel, 2016;Zaręba, Krzemińska, and Dzikowska 2019); the green economy (Barbier and Markandya 2013;Plac 2019); and green cities (Simpson and Zimmermann, 2013). The factors that are investigated by economists (Broto, 2020;Ghofrani, Sposito, and Faggian, 2020) in line with the smart city concept are energy self-sufficiency, smart construction technologies, infrastructural systems as well as air quality, especially as part of the smart environment concept (Orłowski and Rosińska, 2018).…”

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Climate as an area of strategic intervention in urban development

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2020

Biblioteka Regionalisty

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EU policies currently place significant emphasis on the commitment to ensure climate neutrality. A substantial role in these efforts is to be played by cities and local communities. This paper seeks to fill the gap in the research on the strategic commitment in Polish cities regarding the climate issue. This study has two purposes. It aims to highlight the key fields of local authorities’ climate commitment and also ascertain the extent to which climate is approached as an area of strategic intervention in major Polish cities. The research shows that the matter of climate is viewed in a very narrow sense, with the local authorities’ commitment usually being dedicated to a few areas of intervention. The analysis points to three generations of strategic documents and shows that cities are more likely to address climate issues if they are significantly exposed to climate and climate-induced risks and extreme weather events. It is evident that urban development strategies in Polish cities follow EU policies and their commitment rarely surpass the scope of intervention detailed in these policies or mainstream concepts of urban governance and urban planning

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