The Land Transfer from the State Treasury to Local Government Units as a Factor of Social Development of Rural Areas in Poland

Krzysztof Rząsa, Marek Ogryzek and Ryszard Źróbek
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Krzysztof Rząsa: The Faculty of Geodesy, Geospatial and Civil Engineering, Institute of Geography and Land Management, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Oczapowskiego 2, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland
Marek Ogryzek: The Faculty of Geodesy, Geospatial and Civil Engineering, Institute of Geography and Land Management, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Oczapowskiego 2, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland
Ryszard Źróbek: The Faculty of Geodesy, Geospatial and Civil Engineering, Institute of Geography and Land Management, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Oczapowskiego 2, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland

Land, 2019, vol. 8, issue 11, 1-18

Abstract: Sustainable rural development (with the development of social functions) is currently one of the basic objectives of the rural areas policy in Poland. The main purpose of this article is to determine the level of social development of rural areas and to examine whether the National Support Center for Agriculture (NSCA) activities (in the form of transferring land to communes for the implementation of social goals) have an impact on that development, and to what extent. In this article, an assessment of the social development level of rural areas using the Hellwig method was carried out. The research covered the years 2005 and 2018, on the districts of the Warmian-Masurian voivodship located in the northeastern part of Poland. The detailed analysis also covered the rural and rural-urban communes of Lidzbark, Kętrzyn, and Bartoszyce districts. The obtained results were compared with the area of land transferred by the NSCA Regional Office Olsztyn to local government units in 2004–2017, for the implementation of social goals. Pearson’s correlation coefficient was used for a comparison. The results are presented in tabular form and visualized using GIS software in the form of carto-diagrams (diagram maps). Results show a positive influence of NSCA on social development of rural areas.

Keywords: rural areas; rural development; Hellwig method; correlation; carto-diagram (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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