Functional changes in peripheral mountainous areas in east central Europe between 2004 and 2016 as an aspect of rural revival? Kłodzko County case study

Sikorski, Dominik; Latocha, Agnieszka; Szmytkie, Robert; Kajdanek, Katarzyna; Miodońska, Paulina; Tomczak, Przemysław

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102223

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“…Moreover, this level of detail in the reference units make it possible to better define local conditions and indicate specific areas of economic success vs. regress, which is increasingly postulated in domestic and foreign literature (Strijker, 2005;Sørensen, 2018;Śleszyński & Komornicki, 2016;Chand et al, 2017;Sikorski et al, 2020).…”

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Changes in the distribution of economic activity in Wrocław and its suburban area, 2008–2016

Sikorski

Szmytkie

2021

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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This article presents changes in the distribution of economic activity in Wrocław and its suburbs in the period 2008–2016. The study is based on the analysis of data from the REGON database. Additionally, the article presents the impact of migration of economic entities attributed to suburbanisation of economic entities on the changes noted in the distribution of economic entities in the Wrocław agglomeration. The article also presents the characteristics of migrating economic entities as part of the suburbanisation of economic entities in terms of numbers and types, as well as legal and capital status. Suburbanisation of economic entities was demonstrated to have a significant impact on the distribution of economic entities, both in Wrocław and in its suburban area, throughout the period of analysis.

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Changes in the distribution of economic activity in Wrocław and its suburban area, 2008–2016

Sikorski

Szmytkie

2021

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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“…The most significant decrease was observed in the agriculture sector (from 4800 to 3900; by 19,3 pp). Such decline depicts a gradual transformation in the structure of business entities -from a structure that is typical of agriculture, through agricultureservice and service-agriculture, to a structure that is dominated by services (Sikorski et al, 2020). In that period the number of employees in agriculture went down by 6,3 pp.…”

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Reviving villages – a proposal for a concept and identification. A methodological approach

Latocha¹,

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Sikorski³

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Geogr. Pol.

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The methodological paper proposes a new concept of a reviving village and research methods to identify it. “Reviving” entails various symptoms of increasing intensity in socio-economic processes in areas which have long been in decline, and have been classified as problem regions with signs of marginality and peripherality. To identify the reviving villages we used a combination of diverse datasets and sources of information (i.e. statistical databases, cartographic materials, field research). We critically assessed the available data pointing out to its limitations. The new methodology was tested in the borderland of the Kłodzko region in the Sudetes Mountains (Poland). Proposed research procedure can be applied to any other marginal, depopulating rural areas to identify their potential current transformations.

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“…The diversification of rural functions has gradually become a new trend in rural development worldwide. However, in the process of rural functional diversification, there are obvious spatial differences in the degree of economic and social development and the extent of diversification transformation because of regional differences in rural development conditions [9]. Due to the influence of economic radiation and social development of the city, rural areas around big cities experience rapid urbanization and economic and social transformation, and the rural economy undergoes rapid growth.…”

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“…Only by analyzing the construction land structure, with the village as a unit, can the essential characteristics of the rural function transformation be discovered [24]. This type of research offers many empirical examples of the transformation of rural functions and changes in land use structure, which can help us identify the micro-development and transformation patterns of land use in specific types of villages [9]. Despite these advantages, the case study method is limited by the conditions of the selected research area; a theoretical consensus is still elusive [25].…”

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The Evolving Structure of Rural Construction Land in Urbanizing China: Case Study of Tai’an Prefecture

Huang

Lang

Liu

2021

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With a rapid surge in urbanization, rural functions and the structure of rural construction land are undergoing profound change. Using the village-level units of Tai’an Prefecture in the North China Plain as the research object, this study employs the land use survey data in 2019, selecting the diversity index, concentration index, land use type, and location index to analyze the spatial pattern of rural construction land structure. Thereafter, a multiple linear regression model is developed to identify the driving factors of spatial differentiation in rural construction land structure. The results show that (1) there are remarkable spatial differences in all indices representing the structure of construction land in Tai’an and the landscape varies across the indices, and (2) the most important factors affecting the spatial differentiation of construction land use structure are the location, socioeconomic development, and policy, while the effects of natural conditions are limited. The worse the location conditions and the more regressed the economic and social development level, the lower the diversity of construction land and the more unitary the structure. The results of this case study demonstrate the crucial role of the changing urban–rural relation under rapid urbanization in shaping the geography of rural land use, which is expected to have reference significance for researchers and policy makers dealing with rural transformation in developing countries.

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Functional changes in peripheral mountainous areas in east central Europe between 2004 and 2016 as an aspect of rural revival? Kłodzko County case study

Cited by 34 publications

References 65 publications

Changes in the distribution of economic activity in Wrocław and its suburban area, 2008–2016

Changes in the distribution of economic activity in Wrocław and its suburban area, 2008–2016

Reviving villages – a proposal for a concept and identification. A methodological approach

The Evolving Structure of Rural Construction Land in Urbanizing China: Case Study of Tai’an Prefecture

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