TY - GEN N1 - 24 cm N2 - Transformations that occur in Polish rural areas also impact tourism and recreation enterprises. Initiation of rural development programmes successfully activates processes of modernisation in many fields of social and economic life, including the material base (infrastructure), which is an essential element in the functioning of settlement systems. The aim of this study is to present selected results of the expert analysis of 50 Polish villages, which are characterised by a high concentration of cultural values – material, institutional and spiritual. The assessment of a group of rural settlements was meant to determine the potential for creating the Network of the Most Interesting Villages. The article presents the factual basis for such evaluation, the differentiation in groups of villages according to selected traits, especially those describing the infrastructural plane for developing the tourism and recreational functions. The recipe for success includes many elements. The most important ones include attractive spatial configuration in which there is no shortage of central locations that are the focus of educational and recreational functions, the social awareness of the value of one’s own heritage and the ability to describe it (the purpose of stay), the existence of long-lasting institutions referring to the historical memory and communal activities, the ability to create the media for narration placed in the internal environment, somewhat-formed path of its own development based on own resources (developed tourism functions), as well as participation in local and regional network of town with varying functions, and natural and anthropogenic environmental values (tourist regions). L1 - http://www.rcin.org.pl/igipz/Content/61814/PDF/WA51_81488_r2016-t43_SOW-Wojcik1.pdf M3 - Text J2 - Studia Obszarów Wiejskich = Rural Studies, t. 43 PY - 2016 EP - 72 KW - rural renewal KW - social activity KW - places KW - Poland A1 - Wójcik, Marcin PB - PAN IGiPZ PB - PTG VL - 43 CY - Warszawa SP - 59 T1 - Towards the creation of the “Network of the most interesting villages”. Selected problems of rural renewal in Poland UR - http://www.rcin.org.pl/igipz/dlibra/publication/edition/61814 ER - TY - GEN N1 - 24 cm N2 - Disaster mitigation is among the most important issues the world is faced with. However, good governanceat the time of mitigation needs to be combined with the presentation and analysis of scientific results withthe real aim of making future activity more effective. In this study, we have analyzed factors included amongthe non-structural measures taken against the disaster. The differences between social activites are relatedto disaster mitigation in respect of the 2011 mega-tsunami. A questionnaire survey of social activities servingevacuation and disaster prevention in the southern part of the huge area of lowland in the Abukuma riverbasin was carried out, and differences were found between local community-level risk communication systemson each coastal landform and land use changes following the Great Eastern Japanese Earthquake and tsunamiof 2011. The leadership of local community activities, presence of an evacuation system and repeated evacuationdrill, knowledge sharing for prevention, good governance, hazard mapping in the local community andadequate risk communication were all found to play useful key roles in risk reduction as regards the tsunami. L1 - http://www.rcin.org.pl/igipz/Content/47371/PDF/WA51_64241_r2014-t87-no3_G-Polonica-Haruyama.pdf M3 - Text J2 - Geographia Polonica Vol. 87 No. 3 (2014) PY - 2014 IS - 3 EP - 408 KW - social activities KW - tsunami KW - disaster reduction KW - Japan A1 - Haruyama, Shigeko A1 - Taresawa, Yuji PB - IGiPZ PAN VL - 87 CY - Warszawa SP - 401 T1 - Local community activities for disaster reduction in regard to the 2011 tsunami UR - http://www.rcin.org.pl/igipz/dlibra/publication/edition/47371 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Wendt, Jan (1966– ) PB - IGiPZ PAN N1 - 236 pp. : ill. ; 24 cm N1 - Bibliogr. p. 219-230 N1 - Summ. eng. L1 - http://www.rcin.org.pl/igipz/Content/553/PDF/Wa51_3477_r2007-nr208_Prace-Geogr.pdf M3 - Text CY - Warszawa J2 - Prace Geograficzne = Geographical Studies / Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Geografii i Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania im. Stanisława Leszczyckiego, nr 208 PY - 2007 KW - civil society KW - social activity KW - citiziens activity KW - participation KW - territorial self-government KW - non-governmental organizations KW - Poland T1 - Wymiar przestrzenny struktur i aktywności społeczeństwa obywatelskiego w Polsce = Spatial aspect of the structures and activities of civil society in Poland UR - http://www.rcin.org.pl/igipz/dlibra/publication/edition/553 ER -