Differences in the rural structure of Slovakia in the context of socio-spatial polarisation
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2017
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Wydział Nauk Geograficznych i Geologicznych Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza
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This study is devoted to socio-spatial polarisation with regard to the rural environment in Slovakia. In fact,
ongoing polarisation processes do not take place only in the rural-urban continuum, but within every single category
as well. This is evident especially in the rural environment, which has begun to change significantly in terms of its
structure and to diversify to a greater extent. As a result, some parts of the countryside began to stagnate and decline
gradually. These parts of the rural environment can thus be referred to as marginal, peripheral. With respect to the proclaimed
diversity of the rural environment, this study focuses on selected rural structures, namely mountain areas, the
borderland, and the area at the intersection of those two structures. Generally, these parts of the rural environment are
often confronted with the phenomenon of marginality and peripherality, and because of the given local predisposition
are even more vulnerable to its manifestations. Taking into account the dynamism and multidimensional character of
this phenomenon, we can further assume that its manifestation changes in time and space. With the use of ANOVA, we
examine a set of selected indicators of socio-spatial polarisation and verify whether and to what extent this dynamism
depends on the character of diversified rural structures.
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rural structures, marginality, peripherality, polarisation, mountain areas, borderland, ANOVA
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Quaestiones Geographicae vol. 36 (2), 2017, pp. 125-140
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0137-477X