Abstract
Rural areas in Poland are characterized by differentiated spatial structure. The spatial structure of rural areas can be improved through the consolidation and exchange of land (Art.1, Act of 26 March 1982 on consolidation and exchange of land) aiming to create more favourable management conditions in agriculture and forestry by improving the territorial structure of farms, forests and forestland, reasonable configuration of land, aligning the limits of real properties with the system of water irrigation facilities, roads and terrain. In connection with such a requirement for the consolidation and exchange of land, a hierarchy of needs and their urgency must be established. Such an approach makes it possible to secure funds for liquidating the spatial structure of agricultural land according to the urgency ranking. The studies were carried out in the rural areas of the Leżajsk poviat.
Highlights
The policy of the European Union up until 2020 to be pursued in rural areas is oriented at diversifying the functions performed by rural land
The basic definition and purpose of consolidation is given in the Act of 26 March 1982 on consolidation and exchange of land (JL) of 2013, item 1157), where consolidation was defined as the “rural management procedure aiming at transformation of the spatial arrangement of rural land in order to create more favourable management conditions by improving the territorial structure of farms, reasonable configuration of land, and aligning the limits of real properties with the system of water irrigation structures, roads and terrain”
Consolidation has been completed in 29 precincts covering a total area of 46 113 ha, which accounts for 79% of the total area of the poviat
Summary
The policy of the European Union up until 2020 to be pursued in rural areas is oriented at diversifying the functions performed by rural land. The above-presented statistical method was used in order to create a ranking of urgency of undertaking land consolidation works and its results were compared with results obtained by means of the zero unitarization method used by the author in previous studies. The zero unitarization method makes it possible to standardize diagnostic variables describing the analyzed object These variables can be split into the following groups [30]: 1) LTB (larger-the-better) – variables whose increased value contributes to higher evaluation of a characteristic of the analyzed object; standardized variables are calculated according to the formula:. 2) STB (smaller-the-better) – variables whose increased value contributes to lower evaluation of a characteristic of the analyzed object; standardized variables are calculated according to the formula:. The higher the position of the object in the created ranking is, the higher the value of the synthetic measure
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