Courses of development of communes in Swietokrzyskie voivodeship in the opinion of its inhabitants
2014
Poplawski, L., University of Agriculture in Krakow (Poland). Dept. of Economics
The main aim of this article is to present courses of development of the communes in Swietokrzyskie voivodeship in the opinion of its inhabitants, expressed in a questionnaire. The research regards the situation after the integration with the EU. The protected areas cover 33.1% of the territory of Poland, and the region with the highest proportion of those areas is the Swietokrzyskie voivodeship where 62% of the and are classified as a protected area. There are 72 municipalities (gminas, communes) in the Swietokrzyskie voivodeship among which in 49 the protected areas cover more than a half of the territory. These areas are usually landscape parks and protected landscape areas. The poll was conducted among 102-178 inhabitants who expressed their opinions in questionnaires after the EU integration. This paper presents the courses of development preferred by the inhabitants of communes in Swietokrzyskie. The research was based on inhabitants’ opinions concerning particular courses of development, i.e. tourism, services, handicraft, industry, agriculture, food processing, and environmental protection. The results show that agriculture and tourism after the integration with the EU are the most preferred courses of development in the rural areas of municipalities.
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