@article{Owsinski:139801,
      recid = {139801},
      author = {Owsinski, Jan W. and Andrzejewski, Marcin},
      title = {Rural municipalities in Poland: development types, paths  and perspectives},
      journal = {Rural Areas and Development},
      address = {2010},
      number = {740-2016-50928},
      series = {Rural areas and development},
      pages = {19},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {The report presents the results from the analysis of the  population of Polish rural municipalities. The analysis was  related to broadly conceived “sustained development”. An  essential aspect was also associated with “comparison”  (yielding “development quality”), necessitating  establishment of “types” (“development types” or “paths”),  within which comparison would be justified. A number of  techniques were used in the study, ranging from correlation  analysis, through simple linear regression and factor  analysis down to cluster analysis. Based on the results  from application of these techniques, a series of initial  hypotheses, concerning the classification of Polish rural  municipalities, could be verified. The analyses, referring  to a large extent to the spatial aspect of the population  of Polish rural municipalities, enabled also visual  verification of the hypotheses mentioned. Likewise, the  types established refer to a large extent to the spatial  position of the municipalities and the structures thereof.  Given the characteristics of the types, their validity for  policy making in terms of potential future developments and  their consequences, could also be established. This refers  in a special manner to the processes, leading to excess  congestion and disorderly urbanisation, to spatial  segregation, as well as marginalisation and socio-economic  collapse. Of particular importance is the capacity of  assessing, in addition to the spatial aspect, the current  and potential dimensions of these phenomena.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/139801},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.139801},
}