Electronic repository of the publications of Dr Jędrzej Gadziński

A repository of the works of our prematurely departed Colleague, Dr Jędrzej Gadziński (1985-2020) has been made available on the Faculty Website. Dr Gadziński had been affiliated with our Faculty since 2004, first as a student of two majors: spatial management (specialisation in regional development) and geography (specialisation in shaping the natural environment), and then as a PhD student and researcher …

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Project ‘Trajectories and challenges of the development of internal peripheries in the post SARS-CoV-2 new cohesion conditions’

The National Science Centre has announced the results of the next round of competitions. Among the winners of the OPUS 19 Competition was a project prepared by a team of Prof. Paweł Churski entitled ‘Trajectories and challenges of the development of internal peripheries in the post SARS-CoV-2 new cohesion conditions’. The project will be implemented by an interdisciplinary team forming …

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Project ‘Contents and contexts of non-identity places in the Digital Era’

Non-identity places have been an interesting theme of theoretic considerations and research in human geography for years. Scholars reflect on the nature of these places. The most popular conceptions in this respect were formed in 1976 (Relph: Placelessness) and 1995 (Auge: non-places). We use in our project, as a kind of common denominator for both concepts, the term non-identity places. …

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Project ‘Neolocalism vs preferences of craft beer consumers in Poland—a diagnostic survey’

Dr BEng. Bartosz Wojtyra has received research funding under the competition MINIATURA 4 (the National Science Centre). The main aim of the pilot study in the form of a diagnostic survey will be to determine the importance of neolocalism in the preferences of craft beer consumers in Poland. The results will lead to answering the question about the essence of …

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Project ‘AUGMENTED CITY Space-software-human: augmented reality of the smart city’

The participants of the project investigate the implementation of augmented technology and virtual reality in smart cities around the world. They are interested in the process of software creation and its spatial potential. The project is supervised by Dr Michał Rzeszewski. More about the project can be found HERE

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Research into COVID-19 carried out at the Faculty

Within the competition ‘Research into COVID-19’ announced by Her Magnificence Rector, three projects prepared by our Faculty staff were among the winners. Differences in the social attitudes in the sphere of education services during the pandemic – Dr hab. Jan Hauke, AMU Prof.; Dr hab. Anna Tobolska, AMU Prof.; Dr Emilia Bogacka; Dr Justyna Weltrowska. Virtual Reality as a safe …

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Conference of the University Union ‘Education in the field of spatial management in various types of schools’, 25 March 2021 [Conference language: Polish]

Conference of the University Union ‘Education in the field of spatial management in various types of schools’ The University Union for the Development of Majors in Spatial Management is pleased to invite you to participate in the didactic conference: ‘Education in the field of spatial management in various types of schools’ which will be held online on 25 March 2021. …

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Conference ‘Rural areas and agriculture—together or apart? New functions of rural areas and agriculture—integrated development planning’, 14-15 April 2021 [Conference language: Polish]

Department of Agriculture and Rural Geography of the Faculty of Human Geography and Planning at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań is pleased to invite you to take part in the scientific conference: ‘Rural areas and agriculture—together or apart? New functions of rural areas and agriculture—integrated development planning’ which will be held online on 14 and 15 April 2021 You are …

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Conference ‘THE PRESENT VS THE FUTURE CHALLENGES OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND SPATIAL MANAGEMENT’, 19-20 April 2021[Conference language: Polish]

The Faculty of Human Geography and Planning at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań is pleased to invite you to the the scientific conference ‘THE PRESENT VS THE FUTURE CHALLENGES OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND SPATIAL MANAGEMENT’ which will be held on 19 and 20 April 2021 and will be dedicated to the current theoretical-methodological and institutional problems of the discipline of …

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Days of the Planner conference: Environment—climate—space, 6-7 May 2021 [Conference language: Polish]

The Academic Scientific Club of the Spatial Management would like to invite you to take part in another edition of the Days of the Planner conference entitled ‘Environment—climate—space’. It will be held online on 6 and 7 May 2021. The major aim of the event is to present the results of the research conducted by students and PhD students dealing …

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Conference ‘NEW CHALLENGES OF LOCAL GOVERNANCE IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY AND COMPLEXITY’, 23-25 June 2021

We are pleased to inform you about the conference organised by IGU Commission on Geography Governance in partnership with Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań represented by our Faculty. The conference will take place between 23 and 25 June 2021. You are kindly invited to read the details HERE

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The 3rd SURE World Conference ‘Cities as Socio-Ecological Systems’, 7-9 July 2021

The representatives of the world of science and practice interested in the broadly understood issue of urban ecology, ecosystem services and solutions based on the natural environment are invited to take part in the 3rd World Conference of the Society for Urban Ecology (SURE) entitled: ‘Cities as Social-Ecological Systems’ which will be held from 7 to 9 July 2021 in …

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Human Geography and Planning organises CERS conference in 2021

The next edition of the Central European Conference in Regional Science will take place in 2021 and will be organised at the Faculty of Human Geography and Planning of AMU. More information coming soon. You can read about the previous edition HERE

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Publication ‘Land management in rural areas’

We are pleased to inform that the monograph ‘Land management in rural areas’ edited by Anna Kołodziejczak and Lech Kaczmarek was published in the series Studia i Prace z Geografii No. 86 by Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe. This is the summary of the 14th Seminary sessions of the series ‘Development of rural areas’ which were held in October 2019 in Szreniawa. …

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Chapter by Dr Emilia Bogacka entitled ‘Safety of urban park users. The case of Poznań, Poland’ in the monograph published by Routledge

Dr Emilia Bogacka has published a chapter entitled ‘Safety of urban park users. The case of Poznań, Poland’, which is a part in the monograph published by the publisher Routledge. We encourage you to read the entire monograph, Crime and Fear in Public Places—Towards Safe, Inclusive and Sustainable Cities, devoted to the sense of safety in public spaces, and especially …

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Carrer, F., Kossowski, T. M., Wilk, J., Pietrzak, M. B., Bivand, R. S. (2020) The application of Local Indicators for Categorical Data (LICD) to explore spatial dependence in archaeological spaces. Journal of Archaeological Science, 126, 105306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105306

Ciesiółka, P.,  Maćkiewicz, B. (2020). From regeneration to gentrification: Insights from a Polish city. People, Place & Policy Online, 14(3). https://www.doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2020.2955385256

Jaroszewska, E., Stryjakiewicz, T. (2020). Drivers, scale and geography of urban shrinkage in Poland and policy responses. Journal of Urban Planning and Development 146(4): 05020021. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000601

Wojtyra, B., Kossowski, T.M., Březinová, M., Savov, R., Lančarič, D. (2020). Geography of craft breweries in Central Europe: Location factors and the spatial dependence effect. Applied Geography, 124,102325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102325

Wojtyra, B. (2020). How and why did craft breweries ‘revolutionise’ the beer market? The case of Poland. Moravian Geographical Reports, 28(2): 81–97. https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2020-0007

Zwierzchowska, I., Haase, D.,  Dushkova, D. (2020). Discovering the environmental potential of multi-family residential areas for nature-based solutions. A Central European cities perspective. Landscape and Urban Planning, 206, 103975. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.103975

Spatial Management at the Faculty of Human Geography and Planning of AMU is Number 1 in Poland according to the Perspektywy University Ranking!

We are happy to announce that according to the recent Perspektywy University Ranking 2020, the subject of spatial management offered in our Faculty is the best among all the universities in Poland!   More information HERE

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Summary of the scientific and teaching conference ‘Socio-economic geography, experiences, chances and challenges in the education process’

The national scientific and teaching conference ‘Socio-economic geography, experiences, chances and challenges in the education process’ was held on 19 November 2020. The event was opened by the Vice-Rector of AMU, head of the School of Social Sciences, Prof. Dr hab. Zbyszko Melosik, and the Dean Prof. Dr hab. Paweł Churski welcomed guests to the Faculty of Human Geography and …

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Report ‘Evaluation of the Strategies of Integrated Territorial Investments for the development of the Kalisz-Ostrów Agglomeration

On 18 June, the 2nd General Meeting of the Kalisz-Ostrów Agglomeration Council was held. During the meeting Prof. Paweł Churski presented the results of the Evaluation of the Strategies of Integrated Territorial Investments of the Kalish-Ostrów Agglomeration. The prepared study has already received favourable publishing reviews and will be issued in the subsequent number of the series Ekspertyzy i Raporty …

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The 2030 social strategy of the development of the Murowana Goślina commune

The next volume of the series Ekspertyzy i Raporty of the Faculty of Human Geography and Planning was issued, dedicated to the social strategy of the development of the Murowana Goślina commune, edited by Dr Bartłomiej Kołsut. The project of the social strategy of the development of the Murowana Goślina commune was initiated by two local associations—Modern Commune and Development …

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Report ‘The Development Strategies of Sołectwo (a unit smaller than a commune) as a determinant in the Development Strategy of the Kobylin Commune’

The project aimed to prepare the Development Strategies of Sołectwo, which were to be the basis for the preparation of the Development Strategy of the Kobylin Commune. Identified with social and economic development plans as well as investment plans, DSS will allow setting directions for activity in the form of objectives and operational tasks and may help choose the financial …

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Report ‘Rural public space—places of social integration, recreation and education in the Kobylin commune’

The project aimed to create 10 conceptions of the development of public spaces in the area of the Kobylin commune. In collaboration with the residents, what was created were places of social integration, recreation and education. These projects are the basis for applying for funding to develop common (social) spaces. The project resulted in a publication containing the conceptions mentioned …

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COVID-19 self-government report – THINK TANK OPEN EYES ECONOMY

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic was a solid test of the operational quality of our self-government structures, innovativeness of the education sector or the capacity of public health services. The existing situation was analysed in depth by the expert team from the OEE think tank supervised by Prof. Jerzy Hausner, drawing up a series of short, expert opinions and …

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Quaestiones Geographicae 39(4)

The latest volume of Quaestiones Geographicae (Human Geography and Spatial Management series) 39(4) has been published. The number opens with two articles concerning the issue of the development of medium-sized towns in Italy (Maria Antonietta Clerici) and ‘Cittaslow’ in Turkey (Öznur Akgiş İlhan). The article by Tomasz Zaborowski looks at the divergence factors between the central and peripheral subregions of …

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Rozwój Regionalny i Polityka Regionalna 49 (2020)

We present the next issue of the journal Rozwój Regionalny i Polityka Regionalna, prepared by the Faculty of Human Geography and Planning of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. This is a collection of 10 articles drawn up by the authors from scientific centres across Poland in the miscellaneous formula . LINK to the publication.

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Przegląd Planisty 6 (2020) Revitalisation of cities and rural renewal

You are welcome to read the students’ journal Przegląd Planisty 6 entitled ‘Revitalisation of cities and rural renewal’ published by the Academic Scientific Club of Spatial Management.     The full text is available HERE

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Promotions of the Faculty members

We are pleased to announce the following scientific promotions of our staff members. The Scientific Council of our Faculty conferred the post-doctoral degrees in sessions held on 12 June, and 7 and 14 July 2020 on seven researchers: Łukasz Mikuła Joanna Dominiak Barbara Konecka-Szydłowska Ewa Kacprzak Katarzyna Kulczyńska Barbara Maćkiewicz Michał Męczyński Congratulations on the success to our new independent …

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Defences of PhD dissertations at the Faculty of Human Geography and Planning

On 20 November 2020, Edyta Bąkowska-Waldmann, MSc, and Piotr Hektus, MSc BEng defended online their PhD dissertations at the Faculty of Human Geography and Planning. The first doctoral thesis was entitled ‘Participatory information systems (PPGIS) in decision-making processes in spatial management’ and the latter ‘Location factors of wind power plants in Poland’. The work of Edyta Bąkowska-Waldmann, MSc, was written …

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The University Union office for the Development of Majors in Spatial Management moves to AMU

On 16 July 2020, the report-and-election meeting of the University Union for the development of Majors in Spatial Management was held. The representatives of 20 universities forming the Union have elected a new Executive Team. Prof. Dr hab. Paweł Churski, Dean of the Faculty of Human Geography and Planning of AMU, was elected as Chairman, and Dr Bartosz Wojtyra, an …

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Faculty staff members among the ERSA authorities again—Polish Section

On 25 June, the General Meeting of the ERSA Association—Polish Section took place. As a result of the elections held, Dr Tomasz Kossowski has been elected to the Management Board of the Association and Prof. Paweł Churski to the Colleague’s Court, for the term of 2020–2023. It should be remembered that the Faculty members were among the founders of ERSA—Polish …

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The Faculty represented in the authorities of the Poznań Society for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences (PTPN)

On 24 June, the General Meeting of PTPN Members was held where new authorities were elected for the term of 2020–2023. Prof. Dr hab. Paweł Churski has been elected as Vice-President of the Management Board. Previously, for a period of two terms of office, a similar function was held by Prof. Dr hab. Waldemar Ratajczak whom we thank for his …

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