Sustainable Development of Municipalities Using Maków County as an Example

Abstract

The article presents a synthetic analysis of the socioeconomic development-with account taken of the environmental aspect-of Maków county municipalities, Mazowieckie voivodeship, Poland, in 2010 and 2018. There were 20 diagnostic features explored in the research, representing various fields from the areas of Economy, Society and Environment. The study was performed with the help of a multivariate comparative analysis, including a non-model standardization method using zero unitarization. The results of the research indicate that from 2010 to 2018 there was an increase in the overall level of social-economic development, with a simultaneous reduction of the pressure on the environment in most of the municipalities studied. However, the numerous different aspects of this phenomenon presented a varied nature.