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Obszary strategicznej interwencji, problemowe i funkcjonalne w dokumentach strategicznych szczebla krajowego i wojewódzkiego
Strategic intervention, problem and functional areas in national and regional strategic documents

Author(s): Przemysław Śleszyński, Damian Mazurek
Subject(s): Politics, Economy, Geography, Regional studies, Governance
Published by: EUROREG - Uniwersytet Warszawski, Regional Studies Association - Sekcja Polska
Keywords: strategic intervention areas (Polish: OSI); problem areas; functional areas; spatial policy; regional policy; strategic planning; territorialisation of development policy

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to identify in spatial and thematic terms the so-called special areas in strategic and planning documents at the national and regional levels, and a quantitative and qualitative description of spatial delimitations (comprising the communes categorised in particular special areas). The analysis included documents at the national, supra-regional and regional levels, i.e. 10 country-wide strategies (including 7 industry-specific strategies), 5 supra-regional strategies and 16 regional strategies and voivodeship spatial development plans. All the special areas were vectorised or assigned to the relevant municipalities, and then such issues as the number of special areas within them were examined. The analysis demonstrated significant over-regulation of strategic planning (in one of the communes 87 different categories of special areas at the national or regional level were identified). This article expands the issues examined in the project carried out in 2015-2016 at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organisation PAS for the Ministry of Development, entitled “Identification of the state intervention strategic areas, including problem areas” (Śleszyński et al. 2017a, 2017b).

  • Issue Year: 21/2020
  • Issue No: 79
  • Page Range: 30-59
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: English, Polish