<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This article examines the effect on the development of socio-economic regions in Poland of contemporary external determinants considered at the European and the world scale. It consists of two parts. The first gives a description of the main general processes that are external determinants of regional development today: modernisation changes, globalisation, metropolitanisation, and European integration. Part two is empirical in character and seeks to find regional manifestations and effects of those determinants in Poland, and to establish how they influence regional income and spatial differences in its value.</p></abstract>

This article examines the effect on the development of socio-economic regions in Poland of contemporary external determinants considered at the European and the world scale. It consists of two parts. The first gives a description of the main general processes that are external determinants of regional development today: modernisation changes, globalisation, metropolitanisation, and European integration. Part two is empirical in character and seeks to find regional manifestations and effects of those determinants in Poland, and to establish how they influence regional income and spatial differences in its value.

Contemporary Determinants of the Development of Socio-Economic Regions

Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Quaestiones Geographicae

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

{"article-title":"Contemporary Determinants of the Development of Socio-Economic Regions"}

This article examines the effect on the development of socio-economic regions in Poland of contemporary external determinants considered at the European and...

Contemporary Determinants of the Development of Socio-Economic Regions

Published Online: Jun 17, 2014

Page range: 51 - 61

Received: Aug 28, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/quageo-2014-0015

Keywords
external determinants, modernisation, globalisation, metropolitanisation, European integration, regional development, regional differences, Poland

© Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University

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

Contemporary Determinants of the Development of Socio-Economic Regions

Published Online: Jun 17, 2014

Page range: 51 - 61

Received: Aug 28, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/quageo-2014-0015

Keywordsexternal determinants, modernisation, globalisation, metropolitanisation, European integration, regional development, regional differences, Poland

© Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University

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

Keywords
external determinants, modernisation, globalisation, metropolitanisation, European integration, regional development, regional differences, Poland