Tag Archive for: Poland

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1270 | 483 | Thermal conditions in cold half-year over Poland during the advection of arctic air masses | Piotr Piotrowski, Joanna Jędruszkiewicz, Joanna Wibig

The maritime, continental, and transformed arctic air masses over Poland were identified by the modified classification scheme developed by Geb. The modified method uses backward trajectories generated using the HYSPLIT model and air temperature and pseudoadiabatic temperature at the geopotential height of 850 hPa in the centre of Poland. ERA5 reanalyses of air temperature from 2 meters from 49 meteorological stations were used to analyze the thermal conditions during arctic air masses advection. In the cold half-year, the most frequent advection of arctic air masses occurs in December and March. During the cold half-year, the maritime air inflow occurs the most frequently among the arctic air masses. In all months of the cold half-year, negative deviations in air temperature occur throughout Poland, the highest in mountainous areas during the advection of arctic continental air masses from the northern borders of Siberia. This type of air masses appear over the Polish territory only for four months, from December to March. The other two types of arctic air masses appear in all months of the cold half-year.

Piotr Piotrowski, Joanna Jędruszkiewicz, Joanna Wibig
Department of Meteorology and Climatology, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Lodz
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1161 | 478 | The Impact of pandemic COVID-19 on components of actual increase in Poland | Mateusz Długosz, Robert Szmytkie

The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to changes in population trends observed in Poland. First, it was evident in terms of increased mortality, directly – as a result of coronavirus cases, and indirectly – as a result of the obstruction of the health care system. This resulted in an increase in the death rate. Furthermore, uncertainty caused by the pandemic has contributed to a reduction in the birth rate, exacerbating the natural decrease in the population. However, limited mobility and economic lockdown had an impact on reducing construction traffic in various parts of the country, which then contributed to a decrease in the spatial mobility of the population. In both cases, the observed changes were related to the components of actual increase, i.e., the basic factors of population change. The purpose of the study is to identify the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on changes in the components of the actual increase in municipalities in Poland. For this purpose, municipalities in Poland will be analyzed in terms of changes in the values of the components of real growth: natural increase and net migration, in two time periods: 2017-2019 and 2019-2021. This will make it possible to assess the impact of pandemic COVID-19 on population trends in municipalities in Poland.

Mateusz Długosz, Robert Szmytkie
(1) University of Wrocław
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1187 | 452 | Mgr. | Alexandra Dresler

Since the 1990s, the Polish-Ukrainian border has been undergoing constant development, when its meaning, character and function are changing against the background of the processes of European integration and also due to the EU’s response to significant geopolitical events associated with increasing pressure from Russia. On one hand, the enlargement of the EU promised the growth of institutional support for cross-border cooperation and the gradual opening of borders for the Polish-Ukrainian neighbourhood, but at the same time it erected completely new borders – symbolic ones._x000D_
The EU and its geopolitics therefore show that although the importance of borders as barriers is gradually weakening and borders as physical barriers are disappearing in many places, on the contrary they are strengthening and at the same time being supplemented by new borders, often distributed in space invisibly and independently of border lines. These include various social and cultural boundaries, but also individual boundaries, created either institutionally for the purpose of securitization (e.g., visa regime or biometric and CCTV technologies) or from below, through various social phenomena such as perception, stereotypes, behaviour, interaction, etc._x000D_
The author will present an article focused on the social perception of the border in the Polish-Ukrainian borderland, in the regions and localities directly adjacent to the border and across the population that lives there. The study answers the question of how the European integration processes and the EU policy, resulting in changes of the meaning and function of borders, affected the everyday life of the population and their perceptions of both – the EU and its neighbour. _x000D_

Alexandra Dresler
Faculty of Science, Charles University

 
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1160 | 292 | Future socio-spatial suburban development in the context of the back-to-the-city movement. Evidence from six functional urban areas in Poland. | Katarzyna Kajdanek

This presentation investigates the reasons for the back-to-the-city movement, as they pertain to suburban quality of life, and the ensuing potential for socio-spatial transformations of suburban areas. This qualitative study, which employs a qualitative method based on a two-pillar conceptual framework, focuses on returnees from suburbia to six major cities in Poland. The first pillar is reurbanization in its residential aspect, particularly the process of re-emigration from suburban areas to the central city. (Glatter, Siedhoff 2008; Ourednicek 2015). The second pillar is a life-course view on the return to the city, emphasising its temporal, multi-scalar, and social dynamics as they unfold over a lifetime (Bernardi et al. 2019). (Elder et al. 2003; Falkingram et al. 2020; Mulder&Hooimeijer 1999, Coulter&van Ham 2013). Some quantitative and qualitative study on selective in-migration in Polish and Czech cities has already been conducted. (Haase et al. 2012). However, as an example of an ECE country, return mobility from suburbs to inner-cities in Poland remains an unstudied occurrence. Thematic coding was used to uncover connections between psychological dispositions, life domain performance, societal subsystems, and the experience of fleeing the suburbs for the city in the study’s empirical material, which consisted of 46 semi-structured interviews. _x000D_
The presentation shows how complex features of suburban liveability in Poland (determined by macro-processes such as spatial planning and housing policies, as well as mezzo-level contexts such as pollution, transportation, and public service availability) contribute to housing stress, create potential for future small-scale change in the suburbs, and gives visibility to residential actors, such as: urbanites by choice (Buzar et al. 2007), urbanites by necessity, transitory urbanites (Haase et al. 2012), temporary suburbanites (Kopecna, Spackova 2012).

Katarzyna Kajdanek
University of Wrocław, Institute of Sociology

 
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1138 | 928 | Toponyms in the names of football clubs in two Polish regions: types, structures, specificity. | Artur Bajerski

Toponyms, i.e. local geographical names, not only have a specific origin, but are also often used in the names of various institutions (e.g. culture, sport, etc.), giving them a more easily noticeable local/regional/national character and facilitating identification with them by the inhabitants. The subject of the presentation are toponyms contained in the names of football clubs in two Polish regions (Wielkopolska and Małopolska). The names of football clubs have been a focus of interest to researchers for many years and for many reasons, i.e. they are the subject of frequent local conflicts, in particular in the case of changes in traditional names in connection with the implementation of the marketing goals of the club authorities (Creţan 2021), but also in the case of changes dictated by political shifts (Sindbæk 2013), which is associated with their functions, marketing, identity or even totemic functions (Fastyn 2021)._x000D_
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In the presentation, I want to address a less frequently discussed problem, i.e. the scale of occurrence of toponyms and their individual types among the local names of football clubs from two physiographically different regions of Poland – lowland Wielkopolska and upland-mountainous Małopolska. The research results allows to answer the questions whether the differences in the geographical environment translate into the commonness of toponyms (and their individual types) in the names of football clubs and whether the more physiographically diverse natural environment translates into more frequent use of toponyms in the names of football clubs (in particular hydronyms and oronyms)._x000D_

Artur Bajerski
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

 
ID Abstract: 928

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