%0 Journal Article
%T Heritage management instruments available to local governments in Poland and spatial distribution of their usage and its intensity
%A Kozioł-Słupska, Anna
%J Geographical Studies
%V 2022
%R 10.4467/20833113PG.22.013.17114
%N Issue 168
%P 47-71
%K cultural heritage, heritage management, local development, local government
%@ 1644-3586
%D 2022
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/prace-geograficzne/article/instrumenty-zarzadzania-dziedzictwem-kulturowym-w-dyspozycji-samorzadow-gminnych-w-polsce-i-przestrzenne-zroznicowanie-ich-wykorzystania
%X 
	Heritage management in a municipality involves many entities, including owners and holders of heritage, local authorities and public administration, scientists and specialists, and non-governmental organizations. Among them, the local government is one of the most important entity due to the broad competences it has as a guardian, i.e., the owner of historic buildings, and the entity legally designated to protect heritage as a public administration body (Murzyn-Kupisz 2010, 2012; Góral 2012; Gwiazdowska 2016; Pawłowska 2016). Thus, the local government has a wide range of instruments that enable the use of various categories of heritage in local development. These instruments include: the municipal register of monuments, the creation of municipal conservation services, the program of care for monuments, municipal revitalization programs or granting subsidies for conservation work on private buildings entered in the register and included in the register of monuments. The scope of the commune’s influence on heritage is not limited only to monuments, but also extends to intangible heritage, e.g., by co-financing cultural events, supporting artists, organizing museums, community centres and libraries. Such a wide range of heritage management instruments requires full cataloguing and classification, which has not been done so far. In the article, the author attempts to describe and organize the tools at the disposal of local governments, proposing their classification. At the same time, despite the possibility of using cultural heritage in local development tools of heritage management, their use is not complete, and the degree of their use varies territorially. Therefore, the author attempts to assess the actual use of these instruments by communes and to present regional differences. This part of the article will be based on a GUS survey conducted in cooperation with the National Institute of Cultural Heritage of Poland in September 2019 entitled KK-2 Report on the protection of monuments and the care of monuments in the local government. The study conducted allowed for the collection of such a rich statistical database for the protection of monuments in communes in Poland for the first time. The information obtained enables characterisation of the scope and scale of activities undertaken in communes.