"Young Researches and the Problems of Polish Rural Areas"

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Introduction 7

Ruta Śpiewak – Rural Area Inhabitants in the Context of the New Model of Rural Area Development 15

Pamela Jeziorska-Biel – The “Rural Renewal” Programme as a Mechanism of Promoting Sustainable Development of Municipalities in Poland. An Example of the Lodz Region 31

Katarzyna Zajda – Determinants of Social Innovations in Polish Rural Communities 43

Kinga Pawłowska – How to Cope in the System: Some Tactics of the Inhabitants of Selected Polish Villages 59

Sylwia Michalska – Evolution of Social Roles of Rural Women in Poland: Facilitating and Constraining Factors 83

Ilona Matysiak – The Determinants of Women’s Participation in the Subcommunal Self-Government in Rural Areas in Poland – the Case of Village Representative 101

Magdalena Dej – Company Relocation to Rural Areas in Large Metropolitan Regions in Poland – Scale and Key Characteristics 121

Adam Czarnecki – The Changing Role of Small Towns as Sales and Supply Markets for Rural Hinterland 147

Jakub Hadyński – The Regional Aspects of Rural Areas Competitiveness in the EU 169

Authors’ bios 183