Gwiaździńska-Goraj Marta, Jezierska-Thöle Aleksandra, Dudzińska Małgorzata
Institute of Spatial Management and Geography, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Prawocheńskiego 15, 10-720 Olsztyn, Poland.
Institute of Geography, Kazimierz Wielki University, Plac Kościeleckich 8, 85-033 Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Soc Indic Res. 2022;163(1):29-59. doi: 10.1007/s11205-022-02889-7. Epub 2022 Feb 10.
The European Union's regional policy aims to strengthen economic, social, and territorial cohesion and equal space development opportunities. It is an action linking UE that emphasises the problem of cohesion in the interregional context. The essence of territorial cohesion is the necessity to eliminate inequalities between the living conditions of the population. The concept of quality of life is ambiguous, multidimensional and interdisciplinary. This problem is of particular importance concerning border areas, i.e. the periphery of countries, which often adversely affects the population's standard of living. The article aimed to assess the living conditions and the direction of changes in those terms on the Polish-German border, an internal border of the EU (former Eastern Bloc countries). The analysis covered the years 2004-2019. The impact of the EU's regional development and cohesion policies for border areas (INTERREG) in improving the analysed regions' living conditions was also determined. The method of aggregation, standardised sums, was used in the analysis. The research showed that the level of living conditions of these border regions' population was spatially diversified, being more favourable on the German side. The analysed border regions had less favourable material and non-material living conditions than the countries' average value. Significant changes in the living conditions of border regions in the years 2004-2019 were established towards equalising the quality of life, which was influenced by the spatial policy of territorial cohesion.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11205-022-02889-7.
欧盟的区域政策旨在加强经济、社会和领土凝聚力以及平等的空间发展机会。它是一项将欧盟各部分联系起来的行动，强调区域间背景下的凝聚力问题。领土凝聚力的本质是消除人口生活条件不平等的必要性。生活质量的概念模糊、多维度且跨学科。这个问题在边境地区，即国家的边缘地区尤为重要，因为这往往会对居民的生活水平产生不利影响。本文旨在评估波兰 - 德国边境（欧盟内部边境，前东欧集团国家）的生活条件及其变化趋势。分析涵盖2004年至2019年。还确定了欧盟边境地区区域发展与凝聚力政策（INTERREG）对改善所分析地区生活条件的影响。分析中使用了汇总方法，即标准化总和。研究表明，这些边境地区居民的生活条件在空间上存在差异，德国一侧更为有利。所分析的边境地区在物质和非物质生活条件方面比国家平均值更不理想。2004年至2019年期间，边境地区的生活条件朝着生活质量均等化方向发生了显著变化，这受到领土凝聚力空间政策的影响。
在线版本包含可在10.1007/s11205-022-02889-7获取的补充材料。
