Recent research confirms the growing scale and frequency of land use conflicts. Such conflicts primarily affect rural areas and farmland due to urban expansion or transformations towards ...multifunctionality. This paper, therefore, aims to identify changes in the scale and structure of farmland use conflicts among the three main competing functions (production, consumption and protection) drawing upon Holmes’ conceptualisation of the multifunctional countryside. Unlike other research, based mainly on qualitative case studies, we use Shannon entropy and the administrative courts’ database in Poland to analyse farmland use conflicts in a quantitative approach. Our results show the growing dynamics and changing conflict structure observed in time and space but also, to some extent, depending on the composition and configuration of land functions. The findings also prove the importance of (EU, large-scale, nationwide) agricultural and environmental policies in increasing the number of conflict cases. A shift in the conflict line is observed from mainly production-consumption conflicts to conflicts within a single function (production-production) and production-protection conflicts. The changing structure of farmland use conflicts is shaped by the level of development of the production function considered in terms of size and ownership structures as well as its economic performance. In light of this study, land use conflicts, often perceived as socially undesirable, are not necessarily unfavourable, as they manifest a growing capacity to engage in dispute and include weak, forgotten or intentionally excluded actors in the process of building resistance.
•The revealed and formalised land use conflicts are approached quantitatively.•Shannon entropy and the administrative courts’ database were used.•Composition of land functions determines the dynamics and structure of conflicts.•EU agricultural and conservation policies translate into growing scale of conflicts.•Growing scale of conflicts reflects building of resistance by less capable actors.
The article deals with designing and testing the use of conjoint analysis method, as one of the tool that provides information gathered within carrying out the ex-ante evaluation of railway ...infrastructure investments. The authors point to a possible area of application of the method and its usefulness for policy-makers. The proposed method has been tested in empirical research, and the results confirmed the usefulness of the data that can be obtained through its use. Originality of undertaken subject arises from the fact that conjoint method has not been used as a component of ex ante evaluations of EU co-funded programmes, which focus on the railway sector investments. The use of the method may help to strengthen the synergy effects between planned to realize within broader programmes investments. The issue has important practical dimension resulting from intensified investments in the railway sector in the countries which benefit from EU cohesion policy’s funds.
The article deals with designing and testing the use of conjoint analysis method, as one of the tool that provides information gathered within carrying out the ex-ante evaluation of railway ...infrastructure investments. The authors point to a possible area of application of the method and its usefulness for policy-makers. The proposed method has been tested in empirical research, and the results confirmed the usefulness of the data that can be obtained through its use. Originality of undertaken subject arises from the fact that conjoint method has not been used as a component of ex ante evaluations of EU co-funded programmes, which focus on the railway sector investments. The use of the method may help to strengthen the synergy effects between planned to realize within broader programmes investments. The issue has important practical dimension resulting from intensified investments in the railway sector in the countries which benefit from EU cohesion policy's funds. Artykul koncentruje sie na kwestiach zwiazanych z projektowaniem i przetestowaniem metody conjoint w ramach ewaluacji ex ante projektów inwestycyjnych z zakresu infrastruktury kolejowej. Autorzy wskazuja obszar zastosowania metody i jej przydatnosci dla decydentów. Proponowana metoda zostala przetestowana w badaniach empirycznych, a wyniki potwierdzily przydatnosc danych, które mozna uzyskac przez jej stosowanie. Oryginalnosc podjetego tematu wynika z faktu, ze metoda conjoint nie zostala wykorzystana jako element oceny ex ante programów wspólfinansowanych ze srodków unijnych w sektorze kolejowym. Wykorzystanie tej metody moze sie przyczynic do zwiekszenia synergii planowanych w ramach programów operacyjnych inwestycji. Kwestia ta ma istotny wymiar praktyczny wynikajacy z intensywnych inwestycji w sektorze kolejowym w krajach, które korzystaja ze srodków unijnej polityki spójnosci. railway infrastructure; conjoint method; railway investments; ex ante evaluation
Th e article presents the results of an empirical, exploratory study of organizational learning mechanisms in four polish ministries. In the analysis the authors applied a logic model of a system ...consisted to resources, processes and eff ects of learning. Th e results showed that Polish institutions had relatively good if highly fragmented resources, but their learning processes were weak and limited to operational use of nowledge. Th e main function of the system was not fulfi lled and stable connections between elements were absent.
Thus, it has to be concluded that there is no learning system in Polish ministries. All we could observe was a collection of discrete elements, interactions and relations that could, in future, form an actual system. However, to make it happen, a critical mass and a binding factor would have to appear.
Presented study was a part of ESPON TERCO project (European Territorial Cooperation as a Factor of Growth, Jobs and Quality of Life) and was aimed at verifying the hypothesis that territorial ...cooperation underpins socio-economic development. Based on the literature review a conceptual model of successful territorial cooperation was proposed, where this kind of cooperation was defined as bringing the highest joint socio-economic development to the cooperating territorial units. That theoretical model was verified empirically by structural equation modeling, based on data collected via electronic questionnaires (CAWIs) in 9 cross-border case studies. The results of the SEM analysis positively verified the main hypothesis and provided information about the role of particular 'determinants and factors' in achieving successful TC measured by several 'impact' indicators. It was also possible to access the extent to which particular 'determinants and factors' contributed to the successful TC as a whole and its particular 'impacts'. The probability of success of territorial cooperation was the highest when TC projects were initiated by NGOs, local or regional government, funding came from own or EU sources, cooperation was based on simple forms of collaboration, and related to culture, economy, tourism, natural environment or physical infrastructure.
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