European Spatial Research and Policy: Recent submissions
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Estimating urban vulnerability to flood and heat hazards: A case study in the municipality of Thessaloniki, Greece
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-03-07)Continuous urban expansion, the conversion of open land to built-up areas and increased energy consumption have diversified the microclimates of cities. These phenomena combined with climate change hazards increase the ... -
Supermarket deserts in the Polish trade landscape in comparison with the global development trends in this sector
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-03-07)The article presents the development of food retail in Poland in comparison with global trends, characterised by the tendency to replace small traditional food stores with large-format stores, such as supermarkets and ... -
Dialogue with the community in the planning process. How to use the participatory approach as a planning tool for the community’s benefit?
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Challenges of the tourism sector in Lithuania in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: State aid instruments and the efficiency of the tourism business support
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-17)At the beginning of 2020 Lithuania, and many other European countries, introduced quarantine and began restricting movement across the country’s borders. The imposed restrictive measures have greatly impacted and led to ... -
Planning for sustainable city tourism in the Netherlands
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-17)The purpose of this paper is to examine policies and planning for sustainable city tourism in Amsterdam and Rotterdam and relate them to the notions of ‘tourism reset’ that emerged during the COVID pandemic period. Amsterdam ... -
Understanding the impact of tourism on spatial growth for sustainable development of tourist destinations through the measure of land use efficiency
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-17)Increased visitor arrivals and improved work opportunities in the discussed destinations resulted in infrastructural development and settlement movements, culminating in the urbanisation of the locations. As a result of ... -
The spatial, temporal and structural approach to interregional tourism inflows’ sustainability – on the example of four Erasmus+ SPOT project case study regions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-17)Based on produced regional data on tourism arrivals across 297 NUTS2 regions of the EU and EFTA countries covering the temporal scope of 2010–2018, the spatial concentration of tourist inflow in Europe, average annual ... -
Discourses regarding the sustainability and environmental considerations in physical planning of second homes in Norwegian mountain destinations: a comparison between governmental documents, research literature and the general media
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-17)The neoliberal trend in spatial planning seemingly causes the loss of control of spatial plans for destination developments in the mountain regions of southern Norway. The predominant local discourse, as seen in local ... -
Co-evolution of tourism and industrial sectors: the case of the Bełchatów industrial district
; ; Nalej, Marta
; (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-17)
The goal of the study is to explore the co-evolution of the tourism and industrial sectors. This paper addresses the concept of inter-path dependency as the theoretical framework for this study. The case study of Bełchatów ... -
Planning sustainable tourism in UNESCO wine regions: the case of the Langhe-Roero and Monferrato area
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-17)Tourism may be an important leverage for local development. At the same time, it may trigger unwanted effects, ranging from the congestion of services and infrastructures to the progressive deterioration of the assets that ... -
Barriers and challenges to sustainable physical planning for mountain destinations and second-home developments in the mountain region of south-eastern Norway: the reign of governments or developers?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-17)The number of hotels in the mountains of south-eastern Norway has decreased over the last three decades, with a concurrent increase in the number of modern, privately-owned second homes. The growth of second-home villages ... -
Unveiling forms of participation in the governance of UNESCO world heritage sites
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-17)This paper focuses on the issues of governance and participation of World Heritage sites. It inquiries how decision-making structures to locally managed World Heritage sites may encompass public participation. Through an ... -
Tourism as an opportunity to effectively counteract marginalisation. The case of the Italian national strategy for inner areas
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-17)Remote rural areas are often rich in natural and landscape assets, which are in turn used as the main focus of tourism development strategies aiming at reverting their decline. However, mono-functional strategies hardly ... -
Sustainability of studies on sustainable tourism – a bibliometric approach
; Leśniewska-Napierała, Katarzyna; ; ; ; ; (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-17)
The core values of sustainability should be emphasised: economic development, social inclusion, equity as well as diversity, and environmental protection. Those values should be reflected in various characteristics of ... -
Urban sustainable tourism – reality or utopia?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-17)The essence of the city’s existence is its function of exchange, the subjects of which are products and goods, knowledge, information, capital, impressions, experience, and the participants of this process are residents ... -
Foreword
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In Memoriam Konrad Czapiewski (1979-2022)
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Book Reviews
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-06-30)"Final report – Innovative strategies for retail revitalisation in medium-sized cities" Urbact/RetaiLink, 2018, 170 pages,Christa REICHER, Fabio BAIRO-KAISER, Päivi KATAIKKO-GRIGOLEIT, Sarah MÜLLER, Jan POLÍVKA (eds), Urban ... -
Universities and smart specialisation in less developed European regions: an evidence-based overview
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-06-30)This paper aims to review the evidence demonstrating the role of universities in the knowledge diffusion function for Smart Specialisation strategies. It is not new if many experts question whether Smart Specialisation ... -
Urban regeneration and urban resilience planning through connectivity: the importance of this principle of new urbanism
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-06-30)Urban regeneration, which is increasingly having to include methods of adapting urban areas to escalating climate change, is one of the main challenges for the contemporary development of European cities, especially in ...