Target network of high-speed railway lines in Mazovia

Tadeusz Wójcicki

DOI: 10.21858/msr.se.2022.02

Vol. no: 2022

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High-speed rail (HSR) can bring rail back to an advantage over road and air transport in interurban passenger transport. For this reason, creating a coherent network of high-speed rail lines in Poland and Mazovia makes sense, and the first step in this direction should be the development of a target, comprehensive program for the construction of these lines. Meanwhile, the hitherto arrangements for the construction of HSR in the Mazovian region are fragmentary and controversial in many aspects.

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Local government vs. “LGBT-free zones”

Anna Wieczorek

DOI: 10.21858/msr.40.05

Vol. no: 40

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Dozens of local governments – municipal and county councils and provincial assemblies – have passed resolutions and declarations opposing LGBT ideology. The creators of these documents emphasized the desire to protect the family based on traditional values and to defend the educational system against LGBT propaganda/ideology. Opponents warned against the stigmatization of non-heteronormative people. The guideline for the above documents became publicized in 2019. “Local Government Charter on the Rights of Families.”

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Crises as an impulses for changes in socio-economic systems

Elżbieta Mączyńska

DOI: 10.21858/msr.se.2022.01

Vol. no: 2022

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The analyses presented in this essay are aimed at identifying potential directions of rationalization of socio-economic systems, designed not only for counteracting crisis destructions, but most of all the current global crisisogenicity. The need to search for rationalising solutions is not only demonstrated by the crisis that is encompassing the world in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic and which exposes the systemic dysfunctions of the global economy.

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Social activity in shaping the participatory budget

Małgorzata Dąbrowska

DOI: 10.21858/msr.40.04

Vol. no: 40

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In civil society, self-government as a form of social organization occupies one of the central positions. The condition for the realization of the development mission of local government is the participation of citizens and their co-responsibility for the shape of local social life. Recently, civic budgeting has become an increasingly popular form of participation, resulting in the direct involvement of residents in the process of deciding on the selection of the scope of public tasks within the designated pool of funds and assuming part of the responsibility.

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Kurpie – dominant landscape changes under the influence of socio-economic factors during the political system transformation

Agnieszka Starzyk

DOI: 10.21858/msr.40.03

Vol. no: 40

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Kurpiowszczyzna is one of the most interesting ethnographic regions, with a center of original, well-preserved and carefully cultivated Kurpie folk culture. The image of the Kurpie village is the result of centuries of human activity. Over the centuries there have been transformations of the landscape, based on the adaptation of the natural environment to cultivate the land and the gradual establishment of human settlements, which have given the modern image.

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Directions of the power engineering development in the Mazowieckie Voivodeship in the context of the European Union’s climate and energy policy

Beata Wereda, Elżbieta Polak

DOI: 10.21858/msr.40.02

Vol. no: 40

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The article discusses the issue of the supply of energy and fuels to the Mazowieckie Voivodeship, including the energy systems operating in the region, and analyzes the changes that occurred in the sector in question in 2010-2020 (in the absence of data, shorter periods were assumed) and the development intentions, as defined in the plans of energy companies and the so-called energy specustas: the Law of April 24, 2009. on investments in the liquefied natural gas regasification terminal in Swinoujscie (gas specustaw), the law of July 24, 2015 on the preparation and implementation of strategic investments in transmission networks (transmission specustaw) and the law of February 22, 2019 on the preparation and implementation of strategic investments in the oil sector (oil specustaw).

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Waste Management. Medical waste

Anna Wieczorek, Maciej Siekierski

DOI: 10.21858/msr.40.01

Vol. no: 40

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The article is another in a series of articles on waste management by A. Wieczorek and M. Siekierski. The reason for writing it was the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors draw attention to one of its many negative consequences, which so far has not been discussed – an increase in the amount of waste, including medical waste, compared to the state of 2019.

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EcoMission – I don’t waste!

Dorota Jezierska

DOI: 10.21858/msr.39.07

Vol. no: 39

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Researchers are sounding the alarm that the state of the environment is deteriorating year by year. A survey by the KANTAR institute for the Federation of Polish Food Banks shows that 34% of Poles admit that they have happened to throw away food. This is quite a high percentage. Among the most frequently thrown away products, the surveyed Poles indicate, in order, bread, cold cuts, vegetables, fruits and dairy products. The most common reason for wasting food is missing the expiration date.

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Fees for municipal waste management in Warsaw in 2022. Usable floor area

Anna Wieczorek, Maciej Siekierski

DOI: 10.21858/msr.39.06

Vol. no: 39

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This article is the next in a series of articles on waste management and the third relating to municipal waste management fees paid by Warsaw residents. These fees have changed for the third time since 2020. Each change is a de facto increase in them and discriminates against some large group of our society.

Anna Wieczorek, Maciej Siekierski, Opłaty za gospodarowanie odpadami komunalnymi w Warszawie w 2022 r. Powierzchnia użytkowaPobierz