Agnieszka Latocha
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 282426 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Agnieszka Latocha |
| PRENOMES | Agnieszka |
| SOBRENOME | Latocha |
| ASSINATURA | LATOCHA A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wrocław |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7292-5043 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Understanding Rural Revival
This study explores the role of social capital and place‐based leadership in the revival of rural communities in the Kłodzko region of southwestern Poland. Through a mixed‐methods approach combining survey data from 20 villages and interviews with local leaders, the research reveals the unique social capital endowments of reviving villages. Compared to national tendencies, these communities display dense social networks, high local engagement and…
Ambiguous and Complex – Rural Revival in a Peripheral Mountain Region (SW Poland)
The general development conditions of rural areas have been addressed by many authors; however, the conditions and factors that allow the depopulated problem rural areas to re‐enter the development path are an understudied phenomenon. This article examines the types and drivers of rural revival, evaluates the transformations of rural areas and forecasts their future development. It focuses on a representative region for the key transformations of…
Landscape effects of urbanisation in a post-socialist city. A case study of Wrocław (Poland)
Global forces and local responses – A “hot-spots” model of rural revival in a peripheral region in the Central-Eastern European context
Geomorphology of the Sowie Mountains (Sudetes, SW Poland) – Landform patterns and anthropogenic impact
The Sowie Mountains in the central part of the Sudetes range are an under-researched area in terms of geomorphology, despite their potential representativeness for a large number of terrains within the Bohemian Massif, built of metamorphic bedrock. Apart from providing an overview of past work, the paper summarizes the main topographic features of the massif using visualizations of the digital terrain model, and outlines the wide range of anthrop…
Climate change adaptation policy and practice
The paper critically evaluates the urban climate change adaptation policy and practise in Central Europe using Polish cities as an example. The study focused on local policy documents and a scoring system was elaborated and applied for their analysis with particular attention to ‘green’ adaptation concepts. The link between the time of adoption and the scores received by cities' Strategies and Programmes for Environmental Protection demonstrates …
Recent Transformation of Marginal Rural Areas in the Sudetes Mountains in Poland-Drivers and Effects of Changes in Perception of their Inhabitants☆
The study aims to analyze inhabitants' perceptions vis-a-vis the actual demographic, economic, functional, and land use transformation taking place in the peripheral area of Kłodzko County in the Sudetes Mountains in southwestern Poland. Recently, new socio-economic processes can be observed in the region, suggesting a revival after a period of stagnation. It employs qualitative data from semi-structured interviews and observation, and quantitati…
Does the environment matter? Depopulation in the Sudetes (case study of the Kłodzko region, SW Poland)
Out-migration and the resulting depopulation are currently one of the distinct problems worldwide. The aim of this research was to evaluate the influence of environmental factors on depopulation. We considered natural agents with long-term, constant, or gradually changing impacts and discussed the possibility of decoupling the role of the environment from overlapping non-environmental factors. The research was conducted for the Kłodzko region in …
Reviving villages – a proposal for a concept and identification. A methodological approach
The methodological paper proposes a new concept of a reviving village and research methods to identify it. “Reviving” entails various symptoms of increasing intensity in socio-economic processes in areas which have long been in decline, and have been classified as problem regions with signs of marginality and peripherality. To identify the reviving villages we used a combination of diverse datasets and sources of information (i.e. statistical dat…
The use of LiDAR in reconstructing the pre‐World War II landscapes of abandoned mountain villages in southern Poland
The cessation of most human activities resulting from post‐World War II expulsions and forced displacements in Central Europe triggered massive land cover transformation in mountainous areas. However, many pre‐War traces of past landscapes have survived—imprinted in microtopography—in permanently abandoned villages. Currently, they constitute unique cultural heritage of communities no longer in existence. Our main goal was therefore to reconstruc…
Functional changes in peripheral mountainous areas in east central Europe between 2004 and 2016 as an aspect of rural revival? Kłodzko County case study
The aim of the research was to identify functional changes of villages in peripheral area of Kłodzko County in the Sudetes Mountains in southwestern Poland. The study area has for many decades been classified as a marginal and problem region, mainly due to a substantial trend of long-term depopulation. However, in recent years the signs of economic revival have been observed. The study innovatively uses the functional typology of the smallest adm…
Młyn Dolny w Bystrzycy na Pogórzu Kaczawskim. Zanik młynarstwa tradycyjnego w czasach industrializacji
In 2019 a research team from the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Wrocław excavated relics of a watermill, probably built in the second half of the 18th c., in the village of Bystrzyca (German Wiesenthal) near the town of Wleń in Pogórze Kaczawskie (German Bober-Katzbach-Vorgebirge), part of the Western Sudetes. A schematic picture of the mill was included in a map prepared by L.W. Regler in 1764–1770. The mill, called Młyn Dolny (th…
Stone Walls as a Characteristic Feature of the Cultural Landscape of the Izera Mountains, southwestern Poland
This paper is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary presentation of stone walls in the Central European mountains from the perspective of landscape archaeology based on field surveys and analysis of cartographic and LiDAR data. The stone walls in the Izera Mountains of southwestern Poland are the largest ones in the region, as they represent a rare case of fully enclosed fields in the Sudetes. The niches constructed within the walls are n…
Landscape memory in abandoned areas—physical and ecological perspectives (Central European mountains case study)
Using the concept of landscape memory we examined the relationship between persistence of anthropogenic landforms and their botanical composition several decades after depopulation of Karpno village (Sudetes Mts), which represents the socio-economic and ecological processes typical for mountainous areas in post-war Central Europe. The research was based on geomorphic and botanical field surveys. Evidence of anthropogenic landscape memory still pe…
Human impact and geomorphic change through time in the Sudetes, Central Europe
Past Human Activities Recorded in the Landscape
The aim of the research was to investigate the persistence of landscape changes induced by former human activity in the area of the present Glenveagh National Park (NW Ireland), which was subject to intense depopulation and land abandonment in the middle of the nineteenth century. The research involved a field survey, including the earthwork survey of old anthropogenic landforms, as well as examination of available source materials, such as carto…
The Geomorphological Map as a Tool for Assessing Human Impact on Landforms
Please click here to download the map associated with this article. This paper presents the potential of geomorphological maps as tools for assessing human impact on landforms. This issue is especially important in areas which were subject to intensive human activity in the past and are abandoned at present, which is the case for the study area. It includes three intermontane basins in the Eastern Sudetes Mountains, SW Poland. Detailed geomorphol…
The use of LiDAR in reconstructing the pre‐World War II landscapes of abandoned mountain villages in southern Poland
The cessation of most human activities resulting from post‐World War II expulsions and forced displacements in Central Europe triggered massive land cover transformation in mountainous areas. However, many pre‐War traces of past landscapes have survived—imprinted in microtopography—in permanently abandoned villages. Currently, they constitute unique cultural heritage of communities no longer in existence. Our main goal was therefore to reconstruc…
Global forces and local responses – A “hot-spots” model of rural revival in a peripheral region in the Central-Eastern European context
Landscape memory in abandoned areas—physical and ecological perspectives (Central European mountains case study)
Using the concept of landscape memory we examined the relationship between persistence of anthropogenic landforms and their botanical composition several decades after depopulation of Karpno village (Sudetes Mts), which represents the socio-economic and ecological processes typical for mountainous areas in post-war Central Europe. The research was based on geomorphic and botanical field surveys. Evidence of anthropogenic landscape memory still pe…
Stone Walls as a Characteristic Feature of the Cultural Landscape of the Izera Mountains, southwestern Poland
This paper is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary presentation of stone walls in the Central European mountains from the perspective of landscape archaeology based on field surveys and analysis of cartographic and LiDAR data. The stone walls in the Izera Mountains of southwestern Poland are the largest ones in the region, as they represent a rare case of fully enclosed fields in the Sudetes. The niches constructed within the walls are n…
Past Human Activities Recorded in the Landscape
The aim of the research was to investigate the persistence of landscape changes induced by former human activity in the area of the present Glenveagh National Park (NW Ireland), which was subject to intense depopulation and land abandonment in the middle of the nineteenth century. The research involved a field survey, including the earthwork survey of old anthropogenic landforms, as well as examination of available source materials, such as carto…
The Geomorphological Map as a Tool for Assessing Human Impact on Landforms
Please click here to download the map associated with this article. This paper presents the potential of geomorphological maps as tools for assessing human impact on landforms. This issue is especially important in areas which were subject to intensive human activity in the past and are abandoned at present, which is the case for the study area. It includes three intermontane basins in the Eastern Sudetes Mountains, SW Poland. Detailed geomorphol…
Past Human Activities Recorded in the Landscape
The aim of the research was to investigate the persistence of landscape changes induced by former human activity in the area of the present Glenveagh National Park (NW Ireland), which was subject to intense depopulation and land abandonment in the middle of the nineteenth century. The research involved a field survey, including the earthwork survey of old anthropogenic landforms, as well as examination of available source materials, such as carto…
Human impact and geomorphic change through time in the Sudetes, Central Europe
Stone Walls as a Characteristic Feature of the Cultural Landscape of the Izera Mountains, southwestern Poland
This paper is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary presentation of stone walls in the Central European mountains from the perspective of landscape archaeology based on field surveys and analysis of cartographic and LiDAR data. The stone walls in the Izera Mountains of southwestern Poland are the largest ones in the region, as they represent a rare case of fully enclosed fields in the Sudetes. The niches constructed within the walls are n…
Landscape memory in abandoned areas—physical and ecological perspectives (Central European mountains case study)
Using the concept of landscape memory we examined the relationship between persistence of anthropogenic landforms and their botanical composition several decades after depopulation of Karpno village (Sudetes Mts), which represents the socio-economic and ecological processes typical for mountainous areas in post-war Central Europe. The research was based on geomorphic and botanical field surveys. Evidence of anthropogenic landscape memory still pe…
Functional changes in peripheral mountainous areas in east central Europe between 2004 and 2016 as an aspect of rural revival? Kłodzko County case study
The aim of the research was to identify functional changes of villages in peripheral area of Kłodzko County in the Sudetes Mountains in southwestern Poland. The study area has for many decades been classified as a marginal and problem region, mainly due to a substantial trend of long-term depopulation. However, in recent years the signs of economic revival have been observed. The study innovatively uses the functional typology of the smallest adm…
Młyn Dolny w Bystrzycy na Pogórzu Kaczawskim. Zanik młynarstwa tradycyjnego w czasach industrializacji
In 2019 a research team from the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Wrocław excavated relics of a watermill, probably built in the second half of the 18th c., in the village of Bystrzyca (German Wiesenthal) near the town of Wleń in Pogórze Kaczawskie (German Bober-Katzbach-Vorgebirge), part of the Western Sudetes. A schematic picture of the mill was included in a map prepared by L.W. Regler in 1764–1770. The mill, called Młyn Dolny (th…
Does the environment matter? Depopulation in the Sudetes (case study of the Kłodzko region, SW Poland)
Out-migration and the resulting depopulation are currently one of the distinct problems worldwide. The aim of this research was to evaluate the influence of environmental factors on depopulation. We considered natural agents with long-term, constant, or gradually changing impacts and discussed the possibility of decoupling the role of the environment from overlapping non-environmental factors. The research was conducted for the Kłodzko region in …
Reviving villages – a proposal for a concept and identification. A methodological approach
The methodological paper proposes a new concept of a reviving village and research methods to identify it. “Reviving” entails various symptoms of increasing intensity in socio-economic processes in areas which have long been in decline, and have been classified as problem regions with signs of marginality and peripherality. To identify the reviving villages we used a combination of diverse datasets and sources of information (i.e. statistical dat…
The use of LiDAR in reconstructing the pre‐World War II landscapes of abandoned mountain villages in southern Poland
The cessation of most human activities resulting from post‐World War II expulsions and forced displacements in Central Europe triggered massive land cover transformation in mountainous areas. However, many pre‐War traces of past landscapes have survived—imprinted in microtopography—in permanently abandoned villages. Currently, they constitute unique cultural heritage of communities no longer in existence. Our main goal was therefore to reconstruc…
Recent Transformation of Marginal Rural Areas in the Sudetes Mountains in Poland-Drivers and Effects of Changes in Perception of their Inhabitants☆
The study aims to analyze inhabitants' perceptions vis-a-vis the actual demographic, economic, functional, and land use transformation taking place in the peripheral area of Kłodzko County in the Sudetes Mountains in southwestern Poland. Recently, new socio-economic processes can be observed in the region, suggesting a revival after a period of stagnation. It employs qualitative data from semi-structured interviews and observation, and quantitati…
Geomorphology of the Sowie Mountains (Sudetes, SW Poland) – Landform patterns and anthropogenic impact
The Sowie Mountains in the central part of the Sudetes range are an under-researched area in terms of geomorphology, despite their potential representativeness for a large number of terrains within the Bohemian Massif, built of metamorphic bedrock. Apart from providing an overview of past work, the paper summarizes the main topographic features of the massif using visualizations of the digital terrain model, and outlines the wide range of anthrop…
Climate change adaptation policy and practice
The paper critically evaluates the urban climate change adaptation policy and practise in Central Europe using Polish cities as an example. The study focused on local policy documents and a scoring system was elaborated and applied for their analysis with particular attention to ‘green’ adaptation concepts. The link between the time of adoption and the scores received by cities' Strategies and Programmes for Environmental Protection demonstrates …
Landscape effects of urbanisation in a post-socialist city. A case study of Wrocław (Poland)
Global forces and local responses – A “hot-spots” model of rural revival in a peripheral region in the Central-Eastern European context
Ambiguous and Complex – Rural Revival in a Peripheral Mountain Region (SW Poland)
The general development conditions of rural areas have been addressed by many authors; however, the conditions and factors that allow the depopulated problem rural areas to re‐enter the development path are an understudied phenomenon. This article examines the types and drivers of rural revival, evaluates the transformations of rural areas and forecasts their future development. It focuses on a representative region for the key transformations of…
Understanding Rural Revival
This study explores the role of social capital and place‐based leadership in the revival of rural communities in the Kłodzko region of southwestern Poland. Through a mixed‐methods approach combining survey data from 20 villages and interviews with local leaders, the research reveals the unique social capital endowments of reviving villages. Compared to national tendencies, these communities display dense social networks, high local engagement and…
Geography (16 obras) · Archaeology (8 obras) · Regional science (7 obras) · Urbanization and City Planning (7 obras) · Ecology (6 obras) · Economic geography (6 obras) · Physical geography (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Rural development and sustainability (6 obras) · Landform (5 obras)