The current socio-economic development of Poland is creating most favourable conditions for the achievement of economic success. While in spatial terms this above all an opportunity for cities, it is also possible to come across many exemples
of success stories in rural areas. Such areas are characterized by a favourable course to socio-economic phenomena and processes that stimulate or enhance the development of their spatial structure. The first part of the article thus works on a theory
of successful areas, as well as addressing the methods by which these may be identified. Among successful areas, there are several distinguishable elements, namely local centres of success, areas of progress and areas of competitive farming. The second part
then discusses and evaluates the most important determinants of economic success in rural areas. - (BJ)
The present paper aims at choosing indexes, identifying and characterizing the success areas in general scale, as well as giving the examples and determining the key factors behind economic recovery in some rural areas. The success areas were
The article considers the geography of rural areas - in the opinion of the author a new research discipline where Polish geography is concerned. Successive parts therefore discuss the subject itself, its development in other countries
, areas), as well as to characterise selected factors underpinning these transformations. Successive chapters discuss the present functional structure of rural areas, the changes there in the years 1988-1999, the spatial distribution of non-agricultural
This article, devoted to the issue of non-agricultural economic activity in rural areas, reports upon the last statistical data, as well as material obtained by way of field study. Successive sections acquaint the reader with the contemporary