Monograph devoted to regions of poverty in Slovakia
5. 4. 2016 | 3029 visits
Poverty is a very complex and complicated phenomenon which has many forms, contexts, dimensions and aspects. Space is one of the most significant dimensions of poverty, influencing all its important attributes to a significant degree - level, depth, duration, character and signs, among others.
In its introductory essays, the monograph concentrates on theoretical solutions and concepts of research targeted at the spatial dimension of poverty. It also focuses on topics such as spatial distribution, differentiation of poverty and identification of regions of poverty in the Slovak Republic. The paper pays further attention to the character, signs, contingencies and main causes of poverty. These are analyzed in detail using an example of communities of the poorest district. The second group of essays discusses important phenomena and particularities of selected regions of poverty (migration, commuting, demographic behaviour, implementation of solidarity policies, processes of social inclusion and the promotion of pro-poor tourism as one of the actual tools for the development of marginalized communities).
The monograph sees the spatial dimension as one of the significant attributes and determinants of poverty. It represents a geographic alternative to the economic and sociological interpretation of poverty. The basic condition and supposition for gaining necessary knowledge about poverty in Slovakia was the identification of regions of poverty at the scale of the existing administrative districts (NUTS 4), that is, at a level where no official data about poverty exists yet. Regions (districts) with the highest risk of poverty in 2001 and 2011 were identified as regions of poverty. In both the years analyzed there were fourteen regions identified with the highest risk of poverty, of which twelve were among such regions in both 2001 and 2011 (the districts of Gelnica, Kežmarok, the outskirts of Košice, Levoča, Lučenec, Revúca, Rimavská Sobota, Sabinov, Spišská Nová Ves, Trebišov, Veľký Krtíš and Vranov nad Topľou).
The monograph, which is divided into ten chapters, is the result of the collaboration of five authors, all of whom work at the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) Institute of Geography - A. Michálek, P. Podolák, Z. Veselovská, M. Madajová and D. Michniak. They wrote eight chapters; one chapter was contributed by E. Rajčáková and A. Švecová from the Department of Regional Geography, Protection and Planning of the Landscape of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the Comenius University in Bratislava; and K. Matlovičová and R. Matlovič from the Department of Geography and Applied Geoinformatics at the University of Prešov, in cooperation with J. Kolesárová from the University of Economics and Management of Public Administration in Bratislava, wrote the remaining chapter.
The editors and authors of the monograph believe that the publication will be a contribution not only to academics but also experts and laypeople, as well as regional and local communities and associations which are striving to find solutions leading to the diminishing and suppressing of poverty.
A. Michálek, D. Michniak
In its introductory essays, the monograph concentrates on theoretical solutions and concepts of research targeted at the spatial dimension of poverty. It also focuses on topics such as spatial distribution, differentiation of poverty and identification of regions of poverty in the Slovak Republic. The paper pays further attention to the character, signs, contingencies and main causes of poverty. These are analyzed in detail using an example of communities of the poorest district. The second group of essays discusses important phenomena and particularities of selected regions of poverty (migration, commuting, demographic behaviour, implementation of solidarity policies, processes of social inclusion and the promotion of pro-poor tourism as one of the actual tools for the development of marginalized communities).
The monograph sees the spatial dimension as one of the significant attributes and determinants of poverty. It represents a geographic alternative to the economic and sociological interpretation of poverty. The basic condition and supposition for gaining necessary knowledge about poverty in Slovakia was the identification of regions of poverty at the scale of the existing administrative districts (NUTS 4), that is, at a level where no official data about poverty exists yet. Regions (districts) with the highest risk of poverty in 2001 and 2011 were identified as regions of poverty. In both the years analyzed there were fourteen regions identified with the highest risk of poverty, of which twelve were among such regions in both 2001 and 2011 (the districts of Gelnica, Kežmarok, the outskirts of Košice, Levoča, Lučenec, Revúca, Rimavská Sobota, Sabinov, Spišská Nová Ves, Trebišov, Veľký Krtíš and Vranov nad Topľou).
The monograph, which is divided into ten chapters, is the result of the collaboration of five authors, all of whom work at the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) Institute of Geography - A. Michálek, P. Podolák, Z. Veselovská, M. Madajová and D. Michniak. They wrote eight chapters; one chapter was contributed by E. Rajčáková and A. Švecová from the Department of Regional Geography, Protection and Planning of the Landscape of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the Comenius University in Bratislava; and K. Matlovičová and R. Matlovič from the Department of Geography and Applied Geoinformatics at the University of Prešov, in cooperation with J. Kolesárová from the University of Economics and Management of Public Administration in Bratislava, wrote the remaining chapter.
The editors and authors of the monograph believe that the publication will be a contribution not only to academics but also experts and laypeople, as well as regional and local communities and associations which are striving to find solutions leading to the diminishing and suppressing of poverty.
A. Michálek, D. Michniak