Biblioteka Wydziału Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego od 1985 roku wchodzi w skład uniwersyteckiego systemu biblioteczno-informacyjnego. Jednak początki jej istnienia sięgają roku ...1982, zatem w 2017 roku obchodziła jubileusz 35-lecia pracy na rzecz środowiska akademickiego i ogółu mieszkańców Szczecina. W 2017 roku przypadała również setna rocznica działalności Stowarzyszenia Bibliotekarzy Polskich – organizacji, w której działalności uczestniczy znacząca część zespołu Biblioteki WPiA US. W tych okolicznościach w dniach 8–9 czerwca 2017 roku odbyła się Ogólnopolska Konferencja Polskich Bibliotek Prawniczych „Czerpiemy z dziedzictwa – idziemy w przyszłość”, będąca piętnastym, jubileuszowym spotkaniem kierowników polskich bibliotek prawniczych.
In this study, we analyze the association of social isolation in the first phase of the pandemic with perceived stress among residents of Poland and Italy with a look at how these populations adjust ...to and comply with implemented regulations, guidelines, and restrictions.
Internet survey with Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) and questions regarding mobility patterns, attitude, and propensity to adjust toward the implemented measures and current health condition was made among Polish and Italian residents (Cronbach's alpha 0.86 and 0.79, respectively). The sample size was 7,108 (6,169 completed questionnaires in Poland and 939 in Italy).
The Polish group had a higher stress level than the Italian group (mean PSS-10 total score 22,14 vs 17,01, respectively;
< 0.01). There was a greater prevalence of chronic diseases among Polish respondents. Italian subjects expressed more concern about their health, as well as about their future employment. Italian subjects did not comply with suggested restrictions as much as Polish subjects and were less eager to restrain from their usual activities (social, physical, and religious), which were more often perceived as "most needed matters" in Italian than in Polish residents.
Higher activity level was found to be correlated with lower perceived stress, but the causality is unclear. Difference in adherence to restrictions between Polish and Italian residents suggests that introducing similar lockdown policies worldwide may not be as beneficial as expected. However, due to the applied method of convenience sampling and uneven study groups, one should be careful with generalizing these results.
The purpose of this paper is to attempt an analysis of the environmental dimension of the quality of life using quantitative surveys conducted among residents of Gdansk. In the paper, we make ...reference to the theoretical assumptions ensuing from the concept of a comprehensive and integrated approach to the development of the urban environment, whilst noting the profound impact humans bring to their evaluation of the environmental components. The paper focuses primarily on the inhabitants’ attitudes to the environmental values of their place of residence in relation to things such as the condition and accessibility of green areas, air quality, potable water quality and noise intensity. The surveys indicate that views on the city’s environmental values are determined by numerous factors, such as the city’s territorial structure (districts) and its demographic structure (sex, age), and psychosocial features, such as a subjective sense of mental well-being.
As we move further into the 21st century, the prominence of regions can no longer be taken for granted. A certain skepticism has developed with regard to the feasibility of marginal regions achieving ...self-sustained growth and states have maintained their role as regulators of economic and social activities. Thus, the notion of the region and its significance is currently much debated and contested. Illustrated with a wide range of European case studies, this volume brings together the main strands of these contestations, as economic, political and social actors attempt to institutionalise their vision of their region as the dominant form of territorial governance. It questions both the external delimitation and the internal constitution of regions and critically analyses the societal processes circumscribing ways in which regions are created, maintained and undermined. The volume provides a wide range of analytical perspectives to enable an understanding of the current mosaic of regionalism in Europe.
Contents: Introduction: regional contestations, Henrik Halkier, Iwona Sagan. Actors, Networks and the Production of Regions: Regional policy contested: political discourse, institutions and the transformation of the Scottish Development Agency, Henrik Halkier; Multi level governance and civil society: the third sector in the design and delivery of EU Regional Policy, Harvey W. Armstrong, Peter Wells; Shared leadership and dynamic capabilities in regional development, Markku Sotarauta; Regional business associations, representation and regional governance: the Engineering Employers' Federation Northern Association in North East England, Liz Dixon. Regional Governance: Territory and Institutions: Regional spaces, spaces of regionalism: territory, insurgent politics, and the English question, Martin Jones, Gordon MacLeod; Towards a new regionalism in Norway?, Oddbjørn Bukve; Europeanization towards new forms of regional governance in Greece, Panayiotis Getimis, Leeda Demetropoulou; Spatialities of regional transformation and the administrative spaces of the EU, Iwona Sagan, Roger Lee; Regional governance in industrial regions in Central and Eastern Europe: a Polish-Czech comparison, Martin Ferry, Irene McMaster. Contesting City Regions: Global competition and city regional governance in Europe, Tassilo Herrschel, Peter Newman; Uneven development, sustainability, and city-regionalism contested: English city-regions in the European context, Andrew E.G. Jonas, David C. Gibbs, Aidan While; Metropolitan governance and regionalism: the case of Lisbon, Carlos Nunes Silva, Stephen Syrett; Regional contestations: conclusions, Iwona Sagan, Henrik Halkier; Index.
Dr Iwona Sagan is based at the University of Gdansk in Poland. Dr Henrik Halkier is based at the University of Aalborg in Denmark.
Lapidarnie ujmując rolę i znaczenie dorobku Bohdana Jałowieckiego w rozwoju polskich badań miejskich, należy stwierdzić, że bez jego wkładu studia miejskie w Polsce byłyby innymi studiami. Studia ...miejskie to obecnie jeden z najsilniejszych kierunków badań społeczno-gospodarczo-przestrzennych rozwijanych w nauce światowej. Polskie badania miast w pełni wpisują się w ten nurt. W ogromnym stopniu jest to zasługą Bohdana Jałowieckiego. Fakt, że polscy badacze uczestniczą w światowym dialogu naukowym wynika z otwartości i interdyscyplinarności tych badań w naszym kraju. Prace Bohdana Jałowieckiego w ogromnym stopniu przyczyniły się zarówno do ewolucji i rozwoju studiów miejskich, jak i do ich umiędzynarodowienia. Jego zasługą jest szerokie wprowadzenie do polskiej kultury badawczej między innym wielkiej tradycji francuskiej szkoły socjologii miasta zbudowanej na silnym fundamencie prac filozofów francuskich. Ewolucję badań miejskich, która dokonywała się w ogromnej mierze za sprawą działalności naukowej Bohdana Jałowieckiego, postaram się zilustrować na przykładzie miejskich studiów geograficznych. Interdyscyplinarne ze swej natury studia miejskie były bowiem polem badawczym, na którym skrzyżowały się drogi mojego rozwoju naukowego jako początkującego geografa społecznego i naukowej aktywności Jałowieckiego, która inspirowała przenikliwością refleksji i nowatorstwem.
In their bid to combine economic growth with efficiency gains, environmental improvements, and more positive images, Polish cities have embraced Smart City (SC) strategies. Normative visions of the ...Smart City couple advances in ICT with the promise of more inclusive, effective and democratic local governance, but critics of SC urge caution. This study identifies the priority areas of large Polish cities with regard to SC and the extent to which social infrastructure and human capital inform development objectives. Work involved content analysis of official documents and websites profiling SC strategies of six Polish cities (Warsaw, Cracow, Łódź, Wrocław, Poznań and Gdańsk) and their metropolitan areas. This was complemented by targeted interviews and seminars. Moreover, an exploratory study of Gdańsk and Gdynia was also carried out. Our evidence suggests that Polish experience with SC represents gradual processes of adaptation and emergent forms of urban politics that reflect tensions between new and more traditional forms of governance and economic, environmental and social goals. Our results indicate that Institutional change has in fact taken place in terms of participatory governance, digitalization in service provision, addressing social needs and linking SC agendas to wider urban development objectives.
•Smart city initiatives are vital place-making resources in competition between Polish cities•Most of the initiatives focus on technological solutions and are not socially oriented•Hierarchical patterns of governance have prevailed but are gradually shifting•Polish smart city strategies provide space for innovation and greater citizen and civil society participation•Research is based on content analyses of SC strategy documents and interviews
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Andrzej Lisowski’s book on the concept of space in human geography published in 2003 was the canvas for reflection on the role and meaning of the concept of space in contemporary socio-economic ...geographical research. The dynamics of social change in the past twenty years have meant that many of the approaches of that time, being innovative and contesting the old, modernist paradigm of science, today belong to the classic ways of interpreting space in geography. The evolution of space interpretations and understandings has been illustrated on the example of the concept of place. The development and popularization of this concept may be also used as an example of the contribution of socio-economic geography to the cognitive and methodological development of other social disciplines. Ongoing changes in physical, social and economic space have been traced based on changes of public space forms and functions changes and in a macroscale, on the example of a meaning of particular, real territory in the space of global flows. The problem ofthe deformation of real space image in order to obtain its socially desirable perception and valorisation is also discussed. The problem has been historically and is currently present in social sciences.
Based on case studies of the Polish city of Gdańsk, the authors identified problems of post-socialist urban governance that hinder both the development of strategic, long-term approaches to ...regeneration as well as a reflection of "locale" in urban-regeneration strategies. The paper begins with a description of the demographic, economic and political processes negatively affecting the inner city and that have given rise to response strategies. Three revitalization case studies will be discussed in detail as examples of decidedly top-down approaches. At the same time, the authors also draw attention to more spontaneous processes of regeneration in the form of in-migration of middle-income households to pre-war tenement houses as well as attempts to involve local residents in "community-building" projects. More progressive urban policies that improve key local services, such as the quality of schools, might support endogenous social-regeneration processes even with relatively limited financial resources. Our findings suggest that the regeneration (not only) of post-socialist cities requires flexible policies and comprehensive approaches that make use of synergies emanating from "spontaneous" processes of revitalization. This, however, is contingent upon a gradual change in the "strategic mindsets" of key players.
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The aim of this article was to analyse the problems related to the processes of creation of metropolitan areas. The Polish case of Gdańsk-Gdynia metropolitan area constitutes the basis for the ...discussion as its polycentric structure intensifies the problems that stem from integration and the restructuring of administrative power. The difficulties in the creation of new metropolitan entities are well illustrated by the lack of agreement on the name of a metropolitan area. Local and regional leaders' different visions on metropolitan government deeply complicate political integration. The complexity of relations between metropolitan and the rural areas creates additional challenges for achieving a cohesive regional policy.
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In a post-transformational socio-economic situation, urban policy is mainly shaped by two dimensions: a young and relatively weak democracy; and a strong, economically- driven neoliberal policy, ...which is not balanced by a social welfare policy. Global neoliberal tendencies resulted in a shift of urban policy objectives from collective consumption to economic growth. This dominance of economic aims in urban policy is particularly visible in post-socialist countries, which are struggling to catch up with economically developed countries. The growing social polarisation of urban spaces is a result of the withdrawal of state policy from social welfare tasks. An unstable housing market, gentrification processes initiated by the state-led revitalization, the spread of gated communities, and commercialization of public spaces have given rise to social resistance. Mobilized urban movements are fighting for their rights to their cities. As a reaction to the growing demands from civil society for a more democratic policy, new national legislative proposals relating to urban policy, revitalization policy, and participation procedures have begun to be prepared by the state government.
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