Differences in the Rural Structure of Slovakia in the Context of Socio-Spatial Polarisation

Máliková, Lucia; Klobučník, Michal

doi:10.1515/quageo-2017-0020

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“…The concept of rurality changes while the traditional interpretation of rurality as a geographically limited place remains in its understanding through a set of cultural and social constructs creating the rural space (Gregory, Johnston, Pratt, Watts, & Whatmore, 2009). Thus, a comprehensive understanding of rurality in its complexity, needs to be approached through different concepts in which rural space and its perception are shaping its current form (Máliková & Klobučník, 2017). However, Bryden (2008) or Hewitt (1989) argued that none of these simple indicators can hope to adequately capture a complex and multidimensional concept such as rurality.…”

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Rural and non-rural municipalities in the Slovak Republic

2019

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Identifying rural, non-rural or urban areas in Slovakia, Central Europe, is a complex task for extensive transformation of countryside during the last decades. The processes of suburbanization, which started in Slovakia in the 1990s after the change of the political regime, also contributed to this complexity. Therefore, the identification of rural / urban regions is even more difficult. Our research focuses on the application of a multidimensional approach to delimitation of rural and non-rural areas where the aim is to establish a rurality index that presents a more comprehensive definition of the rurality. We used the Factor Analysis of socioeconomic data to show rural and non-rural transitional character of municipalities. The resulting data were assigned to spatial polygons of municipalities of the Slovak Republic and visualized as choropleth maps categorizing the spatial units based on the strength of the rurality. In this way, the spatial aspects of rural vs. non-rural character in Slovakia can be perceived and compared with other sources of spatial information.

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Rural and non-rural municipalities in the Slovak Republic

2019

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“…Also, different definitions of peripherality, marginality, inner peripheries, and inner areas have increasingly led to terminological confusion in the scientific community. There have been numerous debates about the polarization of space [26][27][28][29], about centers that have much more potential for creating innovation and growth, and peripheries that are dependent on centers.…”

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Accessibility in European Peripheral Territories: Analyzing the Portuguese Mainland Connectivity Patterns from 1985 to 2020

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The inner periphery European countries, as is the case of Portugal, are characterized by poor access to essential areas and services of general and social relations. Contextually, this paper aims to explore the linkages between inner peripheries, ultra-peripherality concepts, and the concept of accessibility from 1985 to 2020, in parallel with the analysis of some demographic trends in the same research period. Thus, the study deals with accessibility and the analysis of accessibility-related spatial distribution to represent the traditional core—periphery pattern, with the highest accessibility in the center of the mainland and west coastal area, and the lowest accessibility in remote regions. The results show that the distribution of the road infrastructure is not uniform in Portugal. Furthermore, the NUTS II regions of PT13 Lisboa e Vale do Tejo (the Lisbon region) and PT11 Norte (northern Portugal) have the greatest road per km2. The Lisbon region has the highest concentration of national roads globally, while the northern region has the highest concentration of municipal roads. These two regions are, by far, the most densely populated, encompassing about ¾ of the national population and GDP.

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“…The impact of the human factor as the main actor of agricultural activity in the countryside is the subject of many studies, but the emphasis is put largely on the non-built-up area where this agricultural activity predominantly takes place. In scientific papers dealing with the rural landscape in Slovakia, we can find studies focusing mainly on the change of the land cover structure (Kanianska, R. et al 2014), the impact of tourism on the landscape (Klaučo, M. et al 2017), diversification of the rural landscape (Máliková, L. and Klobučník, M. 2017), function of agriculture in countryside (Bazik, J. and Muchová, Z. 2016; Špulerová, J. et al 2017), rural population (Simpach, O. and Pechrová, M. 2016), green infrastructure and sustainable countryside (Tóth, A. et al 2016), the potential of the rural landscape (Štěpánková, R. and Bihuňová, M. 2012) or multi-functionality of the countryside (Bezák, P. and Mitchley, J.…”

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Evaluation of the diversification of rural landscape in Slovakia after 1989 with a focus on the built-up area of municipalities: a case study of Podhájska municipality

Žoncová

2018

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The rural landscape in Slovakia was a synonym of agricultural production until 1989 and countryside has fulfilled specifically a productive function. Agriculture still plays a very important role in the Slovak countryside, but after 1989 there have been socioeconomic changes in Slovak economy, which has reoriented to the market economy, resulting in changes of the ownership of enterprises, production processes and competition in the market. Countryside has been looking for new poles of development, what can be termed as the diversification of the functions of the countryside, i.e. the transformation of a mono-functional space into a multifunctional space. However, the increase in the amount of rural functions also results in changes of the land cover structure, which are most evident in built-up areas of municipalities. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the changes of the land cover structure of the rural landscape in Slovakia, focusing on the built-up area of the monitored municipality. The municipality of Podhájska, which is the centre of the Termál micro-region, was selected as the model territory and was researched as a case study. In this region, there is a constantly developing tourism, services and business instead of focusing only on agriculture. Changes in the land cover structure were monitored using aerial images from 1987 and 2014 (updated by field research) and the extent and nature of these changes were then analysed by Analysis tools in ArcGIS 10.2. The changes occurred in almost a quarter of the monitored area. Particularly, the use of gardens around houses has changed and they transformed from production to recreation area. The built-up area is also thickened and expanded under the influence of an increase of the tourism importance, especially in the area of former vineyards that had a long tradition in the municipality. The results of the research point to the loss of rural identity in case of increasing amount of function. Similar case studies should serve as base material for documents dealing with the sustainable development of rural areas.

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Differences in the Rural Structure of Slovakia in the Context of Socio-Spatial Polarisation

Cited by 7 publications

References 38 publications

Rural and non-rural municipalities in the Slovak Republic

Rural and non-rural municipalities in the Slovak Republic

Accessibility in European Peripheral Territories: Analyzing the Portuguese Mainland Connectivity Patterns from 1985 to 2020

Evaluation of the diversification of rural landscape in Slovakia after 1989 with a focus on the built-up area of municipalities: a case study of Podhájska municipality

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