@misc{Bański_Jerzy._Autor_Trendy_2025,
 author={Bański, Jerzy. Autor and Mazurek, Damian. Autor and Grzelak, Anna. Autor},
 volume={97},
 number={2},
 copyright={Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license},
 address={Warszawa},
 journal={Przegląd Geograficzny},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2025},
 publisher={IGiPZ PAN},
 language={pol},
 abstract={Small towns witness a variety of phenomena and processes that bring challenges to their contemporary and future development. Among them are growing expenditures on social welfare, labor market problems, transition out of conventional energy sources with simultaneous increase of demand, a drinkable water shortage or extreme weather phenomena. Authors undertook the task of identifying the perceptions and expectations of small town authorities on the above-mentioned issues. Survey return rate, the primary research tool, which was addressed to the small towns’ authorities representatives, totaled 32% of all small towns in the base year. Towns were further classified into categories according to three criteria: economic structure, location and administrative hierarchy. With this procedure, it was possible to identify differences in the opinions of city authorities based on the characteristics of the centers they represented, and to identify trends that constitute the most important development challenges in each towns’ category in the 2040 horizon. The 26 trends have been grouped into three main areas: social, economic and environmental. Authors distinguished among them those that received similar opinions among the vast majority of respondents. They also indicated between which representatives of cities' categories the largest differences in views were found.},
 title={Trendy rozwojowe małych miast w opinii przedstawicieli władz lokalnych = Development trends of small towns as perceived by representatives of local authorities},
 type={Text},
 URL={http://rcin.org.pl/igipz/Content/245325/WA51_281962_r2025-t97-nr1_Przeg-Geogr-Banski.pdf},
 keywords={small towns, development challenges, local government, local development},
}