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<p>Mountainous rural areas are vulnerable to inappropriate land management, which is particularly visible in the Polish Carpathians. This paper attempts to diagnose the causes and effects of spatial chaos in this area, using the DPSIR method. The Three Questions method was used to assist in analysing the effects of disorder in the context of violating sustainable development. The analysis demonstrated that the causes of spatial disorder were mainly of legal and historical origins, with the most visible effects of this chaos being those related to the dispersion of buildings. Minimising spatial chaos requires extensive education, as well as amending legislation to limit the scope of decisions on development conditions. A national financial mechanism supporting the development of the Carpathians would also seem to be a desirable improvement.</p>
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Mountainous rural areas are vulnerable to inappropriate land management, which is particularly visible in the Polish Carpathians. This paper attempts to diagnose the causes and effects of spatial chaos in this area, using the DPSIR method. The Three Questions method was used to assist in analysing the effects of disorder in the context of violating sustainable development. The analysis demonstrated that the causes of spatial disorder were mainly of legal and historical origins, with the most visible effects of this chaos being those related to the dispersion of buildings. Minimising spatial chaos requires extensive education, as well as amending legislation to limit the scope of decisions on development conditions. A national financial mechanism supporting the development of the Carpathians would also seem to be a desirable improvement.

Causes and Effects of Spatial Chaos in the Polish Carpathians – A Difficult Way to Sustainable Development

Department of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology

Department of Spatial Planning, Urban and Rural Design; Faculty of Architecture

European Countryside

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Mountainous rural areas are vulnerable to inappropriate land management, which is particularly visible in the Polish Carpathians. This paper attempts to...

Causes and Effects of Spatial Chaos in the Polish Carpathians – A Difficult Way to Sustainable Development

Published Online: Apr 03, 2021

Page range: 153 - 174

Received: Aug 21, 2020

Accepted: Jan 19, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2021-0009

Keywords
Carpathian Convention, DPSIR, mountainous landscape, rural landscape, spatial chaos, spatial planning, ‘Three Questions’ method

© 2021 Agata Ćwik et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Causes and Effects of Spatial Chaos in the Polish Carpathians – A Difficult Way to Sustainable Development

Published Online: Apr 03, 2021

Page range: 153 - 174

Received: Aug 21, 2020

Accepted: Jan 19, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2021-0009

KeywordsCarpathian Convention, DPSIR, mountainous landscape, rural landscape, spatial chaos, spatial planning, ‘Three Questions’ method

© 2021 Agata Ćwik et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Carpathian Convention, DPSIR, mountainous landscape, rural landscape, spatial chaos, spatial planning, ‘Three Questions’ method