The Military’s Links with Local Communities in the Context of Sustainable Development

Stanisław Sirko, Jarosław Kozuba and Marzena Piotrowska-Trybull
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Stanisław Sirko: Faculty of Management and Command, War Studies University, 00-910 Warsaw, Poland
Jarosław Kozuba: Faculty of Transport, Katowice, Silesian University of Technology, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
Marzena Piotrowska-Trybull: Faculty of Management and Command, War Studies University, 00-910 Warsaw, Poland

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 16, 1-11

Abstract: This article focuses on the analysis of the military links with local communities in the context of sustainable development, in particular the social and economic aspects of development. The aim of the article is to identify and characterize the links between military units and entities in the local environment on the example of selected municipalities in Poland and to assess these links in the opinion of residents, local authorities, and soldiers. Between military units and local communities, there are relations of different nature and intensity, conditioned by internal and external factors. The military stationed on the territory of individual municipalities makes a direct and indirect contribution to building the social and economic potential of these places, as well as providing public goods in the form of the national defence. The links between the military and local communities are discussed in the source literature with reference to examples from different countries. While the scale and scope of these links vary, these impacts follow similar patterns.

Keywords: local community; army; local government; relations; local development; sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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