Poland’s Voivodeships and Poviats and the Geographies of Knowledge: Addressing Uneven Human Resources

Authors

  • Stanley D. Brunn University of Kentucky Department of Geography
  • Marcin Semczuk Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie Katedra Gospodarki Regionalnej
  • Rafał Koszek Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny w Krakowie Instytut Geografii
  • Karolina Gołuszka Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny w Krakowie Instytut Geografii
  • Gabriela Bołoz Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny w Krakowie Instytut Geografii

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24917/20801653.302.13

Keywords:

Google hyperlinks, human welfare, knowledge economies, knowledge gaps

Abstract

In a postindustrial economic world, information economies are key components in local, regional and national development. These are service economies, built on the production, consumption and dissemination of information, including education, health care, outsourcing, tourism, sustainability and related human welfare services. We explore the geography/knowledge intersections in Poland’s voivodeships and poviats by using the volumes of information or hyperlinks about selected information economies. Google hyperlinks are electronic knowledge data that can be mapped to highlight the areas of most and least information about certain subject categories. While some mapping results are expected, such as Warsaw and Krakow, being prominent, in other regions there are unexpected gaps within eastern, northern and southern Poland, including some places near major metropolitan centers. There is a significant difference between the cities with poviat rights, which stand out in the number of information on items comparing to the poviats that surround them. The majority of poviats in Mazowieckie voivodeship are surprisingly recognized as core areas on the map of knowledge, nevertheless they are considered undeveloped from the economic point of view.

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Author Biographies

Stanley D. Brunn, University of Kentucky Department of Geography

Stanley D. Brunn, Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor at Pedagogical University of Cracow, Fall 2015.He has broad interests in human and human/environmental geography; he has published articles on peaceand justice, ministates and global geopolitics, elections, ethnic and racial geography topics, world urbanization,cyberspace and virtual geography, stamps as political messengers of states, growth and no-growth geography.His most recent edited books and chapters have focused on mega-engineering projects, disciplinaryhistory and the changing world religion map. He is currently working on books about global languages, mapsand mapping in the sciences and humanities, and geopolitical changes in East Asia, especially China. He hasbeen active in American geography and international geography circles serving as editor, committee chairsand membership. In the past five decades he has taught at nearly twenty different universities in Europe, theCaribbean, Australia, Central and East Asia and in South Africa. His interests these days also include writingpoetry with geographical themes.

Marcin Semczuk, Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie Katedra Gospodarki Regionalnej

Marcin Semczuk graduated from Pedagogical University in Cracow with an M.Sc. degree in geography. Assistantat Cracow University of Economics, Department of Regional Economy. His research interests are tiedwith regional problems and processes of socio-economic regionalization.

Rafał Koszek, Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny w Krakowie Instytut Geografii

Rafał Koszek, M.Sc., Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Spatial Management, Instituteof Geography, Pedagogical University of Cracow. Author’s research interests concern three main fields:the Chinese economic growth and its influence on other regions, especially on the European countries; historyof geography, particularly ancient geography; history and contemporary development of the St. JamesWay. In the academic year 2014/2015 awarded with the Fellowship of Ministry of Science and Higher Educationfor outstanding scientific achievements.

Karolina Gołuszka, Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny w Krakowie Instytut Geografii

Karolina Gołuszka, From 2012, graduate of the biological – geographical studies at the Jagiellonian University,after graduation took an internship at the Institute of Environmental Sciences of the JagiellonianUniversity. By 2015 Ph.D. student at the Institute of Geography of the Pedagogical University of Cracow. Herresearch interests are connected with environmental monitoring, biological monitoring and environmentalpollution especially air pollution.

Gabriela Bołoz, Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny w Krakowie Instytut Geografii

Gabriela Bołoz, M.Sc., Ph.D. candidate, Pedagogical University of Cracow, Institute of Geography. Author’sresearch interests concentrate on issues related to the functioning and urban development of the city, theprocesses of urbanization and suburbanization, and the factors shaping the demographic change and qualityof life of citizens. In previous studies, the author focused on the ownership and use of land in small and medium-sized cities in Poland, with particular emphasis spas.

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2016-11-12

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Brunn, S. D., Semczuk, M., Koszek, R., Gołuszka, K., & Bołoz, G. (2016). Poland’s Voivodeships and Poviats and the Geographies of Knowledge: Addressing Uneven Human Resources. Studies of the Industrial Geography Commission of the Polish Geographical Society, 30(2), 198–208. https://doi.org/10.24917/20801653.302.13

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Vol. 30 No. 2 (2016): International determinants for the development of local and regional systems

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