PL
Rozpoznanie sytuacji społeczno-przestrzennej Polski określonej zestawem mierników intensywności zjawisk demograficzno-społecznych w układzie województw oraz dynamiki przekształceń zachodzących w okresie transformacji posłużyło do sformułowania wniosków praktycznych. Dotyczę one zmian systemowych i polityki państwa w skali ogólnokrajowej, jak również kierunków działań dostosowanych do terytorialnej specyfiki różnych obszarów Polski.
EN
The study is part of a multidisciplinary programme conducted by the Institute for Physical Planning and Municipal Economy and focuses on the social dimension of physical planning. The first section describes findings of a social factor identification exercise in different regional settings. A mix of detailed indicators have been used to capture the social dynamics and systemic changes in Poland's Voivodships (Provinces). They focused has been primarily on detrimental impacts on the quality of human resources, potential conflict situations and the challenges of modern civilisation. A study of statistical relations has revealed that the area of Poland is diverse and there exist a number of different categories, which allow co-occurance of different structural features and confirm high intensity of processes. For example, it has been found that the period of transition has not only strengthened the discrepancies, which are the function of the existing physical systems, but has also caused greater polarisation of the country into continuous decline areas on one hand and areas of relatively improved conditions which had also previously been better off on the other. The assessment was conducted in order to set the goals for the Government (systemic change, control of business and public participation inhibitors, counteracting crime, shrinking of population, early death, illness incidcnce, unemployment, agony of education etc.). Stimulating economic growth and public participation will require using regional discrepancies and adapting national goals to local situations. There appear to be two major development models in two different types of environment, i.e. large urban complexes with unique resources and potential as well as underdeveloped areas of traditional agriculture, in declined single-function localities and regions and in areas of degraded human resources, deepening poverty, frustration and social inertia.