Wspierać czy zalesiać? Dylematy rozwoju wiejskich obszarów problemowych
Supporting or Afforesting? Dilemmas in the Development of Rural Problem Areas in Poland

Summary/Abstract: Approximately one third of rural areas in Poland have been described as problemareas by planners. They represent mostly peripheral or marginalised areas, characterised byseveral deficits (of physical, human, social, and cultural capital), that cannot develop withoutexternal help. Moreover, formulating the aims of development is even more problematic.Challenges raised by the new paradigm of sustainable rural development which refers tonumerous elements of the sociological idea of neo-endogenous development are especiallyimportant. The present analysis of deficits of the problem areas underscores the significanceof human, social, and cultural deficits. Such is the context of external support for these areasand the limits of social rationality thereof. The idea of negative spiral of development andthe matching paradigm – a new development paradigm for some of the discussed areas –both proposed by Gerlind Weber – are of use in explaining the described phenomena.

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