Abstract:The integrated assessment of natural resources status at the rural commune -case study of the Olszanka, Mazovian Voivodeship. The assessment of the possibilities of the integrated index method application for the determination of the environmental resources values to mark out the developing trends for the rural commune was the aim of the work. The typical agricultural commune Olszanka, located in Mazovian Voivodeship, was chosen for the case study. The land use structure, the quality of agricultural production area, water, soil, air, biological diversity and landscape were being analyzed as the components of the natural agricultural environment. The high spatial differentiation of analyzed components of the rural environment was proved. The applied method may be used for working out the development strategy for another rural communes, because it takes into consideration the status of area resources in qualitive, quantative and spatial forms and enables the assessment of the issue in systemic way with accuracy suffi cient to the problem complexity.
The problem of an ageing population confronts the majority of advanced countries. This paper analyses the probability, which may be termed the probability of a sustainable pension, that a retired person will not face financial ruin before they die.
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