In the elaboration attention has been paid to Szczawnica, a town in Mało-polskie province, Nowy Targ poviat, located in one of the most beautiful spots in the South Poland, where Pieniny Mountains meet Beskid Sądecki, in the valley of Grajcarka stream, tributary of Dunajec. Since the half of 19th century it has been a famous spa, functioning for almost 200 years. In 2005 by court's ruling the spa returned to its prewar owners - the family of Stadniccy counts. Carried out anal-yses, on-site visits, stocktaking, local surveys enabled learning more about the place, bringing closer its general potential, enabled drawing proper conclusions, especially in the context of tourist potential including spa potential of this special place, taking into consideration first of all unique natural environment. ...
The article compares the level of technical infrastructure development in rural districts of Jelenia Góra. Taxonomic meters of development have been con-structed based on a set of characteristics of selected municipalities in the field of three categories: sewer and water mains, gas and district heating and transport, waste management and environmental protection (such as water supply, gas dis-tribution network, or the percentage of population served by sewage treatment plants). The study ranks the collection of cross-sectional data for 2009. ...
Rural development is going in the direction of multifunctionality. Areas lo-cated within the impact of the great and big cities are eminently suited. They have already become the scene of dynamic changes from a dozen years. This transfor-mation causes both positive and negative effects.The most important positive effects may include: improving the demographic structure of the population of areas, differentiation of jobs, increase of the mu-nicipalities budget, development of technical and social infrastructure. The most blatant negative effects include: transformation in the social, spatial and environ-mental sphere (especially impoverishment of environmental resources). Negative effects are expressed in the increase of social and spatial conflicts and they are a result of disturbances in the existing social and spatial order, harmony between a man and the environment. ...
For years the development of rural areas has aimed at multifunctionality, which is approached as a remedy for low development level and the weakness of Polish agriculture. However, the implementation of program assumptions depends on many factors, just like the pace and direction of changes which differentiate the particular areas of Poland. The intensification of changes occurs in the influence zone of large cities, where, to a large extent, non-agricultural economic functions and residential buildings of a specific urban nature appear. The objective of the study is to compare and evaluate changes occurring in the suburban municipalities of Wroclaw, in terms of their multifunctionality. The indicator method was used to compare the values of indices in time and space of nine suburban Wroclaw municipalities. The Central Statistical Office resources represent the data source, the analyses cover the years 1995 - 2015. The research was divided into demographic, spatial and economic aspects. All analysed municipalities are characterized by the significant dynamics of transformations. The similar tendencies of change are observed, however, their range and rate are diversified. The industrial sector is strongly developed in the studied municipalities, and the dynamic growth of all analysed dimensions is characterized by the ongoing processes ...
