Abstract
The geographical presentation of various data on the spatial functioning of society has been present in fields such as social policy and security for almost 200 years. New technologies, in particular computerization and the GIS tool, not only make the mapping of social problems or security threats more accurate, but also allow for the interactive creation of those maps by society and public institutions. This article is a qualitative analysis of solutions used in the Silesian Voivodeship, a region of Poland with a highly specific nature and density in terms of the problems discussed. The tools presented, including a “National Map of Security Threats” and “Maps of Social Problems and Resources in the Local Environment”, demonstrate—apart from their obvious benefits, such as increasing public awareness of threats and enhancing cooperation between society and public institutions in combatting them—the challenges and problems that these solutions bring and may also create in the future.
Highlights
Nowadays, the use of modern tools and methods in the diagnosis of social problems and issues is not an optional activity, but rather functions as part of legal requirements defined in the legislative order and in standards of social policy activities
An important role is played by strategies for solving social problems, including social assistance programs, counteracting unemployment, preventing and treating alcoholism, counteracting domestic and other types of violence, and other strategies, the main goal of which is to integrate people, groups, and families from a special risk group
The development of maps of social problems containing information about the spatial distribution of the disorganization of social phenomena is an element of the process of building development strategies and strategies for solving social problems
Summary
The use of modern tools and methods in the diagnosis of social problems and issues is not an optional activity, but rather functions as part of legal requirements defined in the legislative order and in standards of social policy activities. The diagnosis of social phenomena and problems as well as security threats is a desideratum of social policy, but is closely related to fields such as the concept of smart cities, universal design, strengthening social participation, and the desideratum of designing modern social services [1]. Activities consisting of improving the ways a given community functions are related to several stages—from collecting (inventorying) social risks and problems to generating a strategy for solving them in a participatory dimension. The possibility of the integral creation of an image of society and of the problems affecting it, as well as the preparation, planning, and evaluation of corrective actions, are made possible by building maps of social problems and phenomena [2] (pp. 270–273)
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