Ocena poziomu zrównoważonego rozwoju gmin w Polsce
Assessment of the sustainable development level of gminas in Poland

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the study is to assess the sustainability level of the development ofgminas in Poland, while indicating the problems limiting the sustainability of development. For this purpose, the statistical data from the Local Data Bank of the Central Statistical Office were used. On the basis of a development measure the synthetic indicators of economic, social and environmental development were calculated. This indicators enabled to assess the sustainability level in the three aspects and to present the relations between them. The measure of cohesion was used to assess the sustainability level of gminas. Five sustainability groups were identified: very low, low, medium, high andvery high. It was concluded that among all the surveyed gminas (2,479), a higher sustainability level demonstrate urban-rural (26.2% of the total number of such gminas) and rural gminas (20.1%) rather than urban gminas (17.9%). It was also pointed out that the environment may be a barrier in the shaping of the sustainable development of gminas.

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