Geographia Polonica (2024) vol. 97, iss. 2

Abstract

This study describes and analyzes the pre- and post-pandemic approaches toward participation in community-based initiatives by the residents of Poznań, Poland. Data for this study were collected through surveys with city dwellers (2018 and 2023) and interviews with local community leaders (2020). These results reveal a notable increase in the willingness to engage in community-based initiatives between 2018 and 2023, with the shared experience of the pandemic threat contributing to this shift. There is also a visible increase in the readiness to involve digitally mediated forms of participation among residents. In conclusion, this study underscores the need to sustain pandemic-driven social mobilization to build long-term community resilience.

Keywords: COVID-19, community-based initiatives, mobilization, community resilience

Tomasz Sowada [tomasz.sowada@amu.edu.pl], Faculty of Human Geography and Planning Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Bogumiła Krygowskiego 10, 61-680 Poznań: Poland

Abstract

Embeddedness of artisan food markets in local socio-economic settings is apparent and decisive in individual procedures, development and change. The paper argues that geography and location patterns affect artisan food producers in the context of knowledge availability. A sample of 704 Polish food producers are mapped using GIS, and in conjugation with current literature on tacit knowledge social capital, the implication for artisan food producers innovation capabilities is discussed. Results show that artisan food producers are different in their location patterns depending on the type of offered products. Apparent differences in location patterns strongly indicate that artisan food producers experience differences in tacit knowledge availability.

Keywords: tacit knowledge, innovation, social capital, GIS, artisan food producers

Gurid Karevoll [gurid.gjostein.karevoll@hvl.no], Faculty of Economy Koszalin University of Technology Kwiatkowskiego 6e, 75-343 Koszalin: Poland; HVL Business School, Faculty of Technology Environmental and Social Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences Røyrgata 6, 6856, Sogndal: Norway
Julia Ziółkowska [julia.ziolkowska@ug.edu.pl], Faculty of Social Sciences University of Gdańsk Bażyńskiego 4, 80-309 Gdańsk: Poland
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski [gregory.kwiatkowski@hvl.no], Faculty of Economy Koszalin University of Technology Kwiatkowskiego 6e, 75-343 Koszalin: Poland; HVL Business School, Faculty of Technology Environmental and Social Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences Røyrgata 6, 6856, Sogndal: Norway
Dariusz Kloskowski [dariusz.kloskowski@tu.koszalin.pl], Faculty of Economy Koszalin University of Technology Kwiatkowskiego 6e, 75-343 Koszalin: Poland

Abstract

The article addresses the issue of Ukrainian war refugees in Poland. The authors aim to reconstruct the role that various places play in the everyday life of refugees in Poland and the differences between recognized places. In this way, the authors try to answer the question about the meaning of place in life as refugee persons during the first weeks and the following months of their stay in host country. The research used a mixed method approach: general questionnaire survey and in-depth interviews. The particular findings of the studyare related to the observations that: a) the spaces/places in the first days and weeks of war refugees' stay inthe host country are completely generic, b) during their stay in the following months, refugees look for places to redefine their situation. The main conclusion of the research is that places have a very great, perhaps underestimated, importance during the stay of war refugees in the host country.

Keywords: war refugees, Ukrainians, sense of place, places as gaps, places of redefinition

Jacek Kotus [tatra@amu.edu.pl], Critical Geography Lab, Faculty of Human Geography and Planning, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań Krygowskiego 10, 61-680 Poznań: Poland
Paul C. Adams [paul.adams@austin.utexas.edu], Department of Geography and The Environment University of Texas at Austin, TX, US Liberal Arts Building, TX 78712m 305 E 23rd St, Austin: US

Abstract

The study offers the first attempt to combine the identification of rock cliffs particularly prone to rockfall with estimates of the potential trajectories and kinetic energies of the material released in this way in the Tatra Mountains. The results obtained suggest that the potential energy of the relief and the initial size and shape of the rock fragments released have not fundamentally changed since the complete disappearance of the glaciers. It was also found that the degree to which glacial and periglacial landforms are buried by such material depends not just on the location, number and size of the release areas or rockfall frequency but also on the kinetic energy of the rock material released. The rockfalls observed in recent years and those perceived as potentialones are linked not so much to permafrost degradation as to the relief, geology and weather conditions.

Keywords: rockfalls, granitoid slopes, natural hazards cartography, RAMMS::Rockfall software, Tatra Mts.

Joanna Kajdas [kajdasj@gmail.com], Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice ul. Będzińska 60, 41-200 Sosnowiec: Poland
Bogdan Gądek [bogdan.gadek@us.edu.pl], Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice ul. Będzińska 60, 41-200 Sosnowiec: Poland