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Blokowiska – obszary zdegradowane czy bezpieczne, dostatnie i spokojne miejsca do życia?

Wojciech Jarczewski

Public Management, Issue 1-2 (9-10), 2010, pp. 121 - 130

Large housing estates are the areas populated by 7–8 millions of Poles. The degree of technical and social degradation of large-panel housing complexes is rather low. Crime rate, poverty and unemployment in such complexes are often lower than the respective average urban indicators. We do not have a tool for analyzing inner-city diversities. The use of the inner-city component of the Urban Audit of Sub-city Districts (Audyt Miejski SCD PL) will allow us to estimate the scale of degradation in particular urban districts, utilizing the methodology which is standardized for the whole country. The SCD PL Urban Audit to be repeated regularly will become a tool of monitoring changes, including the revitalization programme effects.

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Konstruowanie problemu społecznego na przykładzie procesu organizacji zimowych igrzysk olimpijskich Kraków 2022

Wojciech Jarczewski

Issues in Social Work, Volume 22, Issue 4, 2017, pp. 247 - 264

https://doi.org/10.4467/24496138ZPS.17.016.8011

In recent years it has become evident the issue of organization of major sporting events is the subject of heated public debates. This is because it is quite difficult to state explicitly whether major sporting events have a positive or negative influence on economic development of cities, regions and states that organize them. The vast majority of the existing studies whose authors are in favour of or against the organization of the events of this type focuses primarily on economic aspects and their major aim is to determine costs and benefits related to the organization of such events. This article presents a slightly different approach to this problem. This is an attempt to analyse it from the sociological point of view. Based on the example of the process of organization of the Winter Olympic Games Kraków 2022, it tries to demonstrate that an inability to present clear and objective arguments which prove that major sporting events produce positive effects and represent an opportunity for development, implies the creation of social problem generated in the process of their organization. The approach to the social problem becomes then more subjective and is affected by social mobilization and media discourse.

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Wykorzystanie energii geotermalnej w Polsce

Wojciech Jarczewski

Geographical Studies, Issue 141, 2015, pp. 87 - 104

https://doi.org/10.4467/20833113PG.15.011.4063

Geothermal energy is one of the renewable sources of energy, which is extremely important from the point of view of the idea of sustainable development. In modern Poland, the use of geothermal energy is so far limited. There are several plants that use geothermal energy for heating purposes, but the cost-effectiveness of this type of investment is low. For several years, a rapid development of so-called thermal parks has been observed, which is related with a newfound fashionability of the healthy lifestyle. Particularly advantageous geological conditions in the region of Podhale, as well as the significant tourist popularity of this area in general all year round, make this type of investment substantially profitable. In other parts of the country, only a few relatively small thermal parks are operational and development is not easy because of the high start-up cost and difficulty of providing adequate financial resources

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