Natural, economic and social potential should determines any kind of economic activity taken in region. Functions of communes should captivate this potential also. So the economic activity should respond with economic function. Verification of kind of economic activity in rural communes according to their functional types is purpose of article. It was present characteristic of economic activity taken in rural mountain areas, which was collate with economic functions, which are attributed these areas. Were treated three functional types on base of 38 mountain communes. Chosen functions were: non-commercial agriculture (1), forestry with agriculture (2) and tourist and recreation with share of forestry and agriculture (3). It was ascertained, that the dominating economic activity on these areas is trade and construction, independently on functional type of communes. Only for communes with tourist function was ascertained the correspondence of kind of economic activity with attributed economic function. ...
The recognition of state of stock with ecological infrastructure of rural mountain areas with high natural values is the aim of investigations. The area covered by investigations creates 8 communes in the Bieszczady Mts. which are including to two administrative districts: Bieszczady and Lesko. The results of investigations were showed that the mountain communes in Bieszczady characterizing by high natural values and they are having the poor technical infrastructure. In 2006 year the water supply system constituted near 2% of total lenght of water supply net in the Podkarpackie province, but the sewage system 1,4%. The lenght of water supply net exceeded the lenght of sewage net. None of communes not reaching the size of indexes describing the technical infrastructure on the mean level established for the Podkarpackie province and for the country. In addition its uneasy fact of untaking the structural funds by investigational communes for improvement the noncomfortable situation. Only the Solina commune has the highest development of water supply and sewage systems among the investigational communes and this commune during 2003-2006 years effective used the union means. We may distinct the positive situation from the point of view of quantity of wastes dangerous for environment and way ...
The expenditures on water and wastewater management, roads and schools are predominating in the commune’s investment expenditure structure. The main purpose of paper is to define the development rate of water and wastewater infrastructure and accompanying outlays on fixed assets serving the environmental protection. There were analyzed changes of investment outlays on water and wastewater in the period before and after Poland’s access to the EU (2002–2003 and 2004–2006). Gotten results were confronted with real changes in the infrastructural endowment. There was verified if the changes in investment expenditures followed the changes in the infrastructural endowment. The communes of the Nowy Targ district were chosen to the analysis. It has been proved that this district is characterized by high (but insufficient) level of infrastructural endowment and simultaneously by lowest dynamic of investments. The researches have shown that investment expenditures (on the wastewater management and protection of waters) were decreasing on average by 21% annually over the analyzed period. In the same time the infrastructural endowment has grown by 2,1%. It is also stated that the average rate of change of infrastructural indicators was higher before Poland's access to EU. ...
