Sense of Local Safety and the Social Potential of Rural Residents. Evidence from Poland
References
- Abraham, J. & Ceccato, V. (2022). Crime and safety in rural areas: A systematic review of the English-language literature 1980–2020. Journal of Rural Studies 94, 250–273. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.05.010.
- Akimova, O., Ishchenko, A. & Perga, I. (2025). Community resilience in conflict zones: Identifying key factors for conflict resolution and recovery potential. In: Shinoda, H. & Fedorchenko-Kutuyev, P., eds., The impacts of the Russo-Ukrainian war: Theoretical and practical explorations of policy agendas for peace in Ukraine (pp. 101–117). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
- Aldrich, D. P. & Meyer, M. A. (2015). Social Capital and Community Resilience. American Behavioral Scientist 59(2), 254–269. DOI: 10.1177/0002764214550299.
- Aldrich, D. P. (2012). Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
- Bański, J. (2008). Wiejskie obszary sukcesu gospodarczego. Studia Obszarów Wiejskich 14, 9–22.
- Bański, J. (2019). Wieś jako przedmiot badań geograficznych – współczesne ujęcia i konteksty. Warszawa: IGiPZ PAN.
- Bauman, Z. (2001). The Individualized Society. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Beck, U. (2002). Społeczeństwo ryzyka. W drodze do innej nowoczesności. Warszawa: Scholar.
- Błąd, M. (2022). Rural resilience jako nowa koncepcja rozwoju wsi. Wieś i Rolnictwo 1(194), 97–118. DOI: 10.53098/wir012022/01.
- Blekesaune, A. & Quadagno, J. (2003). Public attitudes toward welfare state policies: A comparative analysis of 24 nations. European Sociological Review 19(5), 415–427. DOI: 10.1093/esr/19.5.415.
- Bock, B. B. (2016). Rural Marginalisation and the Role of Social Innovation; A Turn Towards Nexogenous Development and Rural Reconnection. Sociologia Ruralis 56(4), 552–574. DOI: 10.1111/soru.12119.
- Bogacka, E. (2017). Problematyka badawcza z zakresu poczucia bezpieczeństwa człowieka w przestrzeni miasta. Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Geographica Socio-Oeconomica 27, 141–151. DOI: 10.18778/1508-1117.27.10.
- Bosworth, G. & Atterton, J. (2012). Entrepreneurial in-migration and neoendogenous rural development. Rural Sociology 77, 254–279. DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-0831.2012.00079.x.
- Bourdieu, P. (1986). The forms of capital. In: Richardson, G., ed., Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education (pp. 241–258). New York: Greenwood Press.
- Castles, S., de Haas, H. & Miller, M. J. (2014). The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World (5th ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Ceccato, V. (2015). Rural Crime and Community Safety. London: Routledge.
- Champion, T. & Brown, D. L. (2012). Migration and urban–rural population redistribution in the UK and US. In Shucksmith, M. et al., eds., Routledge International Handbook of Rural Studies (pp. 32–44). London: Routledge.
- Coleman, J. S. (1988). Social capital in the creation of human capital. American Journal of Sociology, 94, S95–S120.
- Copus, A. K. & De Lima, P. (2015). Territorial cohesion in rural Europe. London: Routledge.
- Delanty, G., Wodak, R. & Jones, P. (2008). Identity, Belonging and Migration. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
- Dynes, R. R. (2006). Social Capital: Dealing with Community Emergencies. Homeland Security Affairs 2(2).
- Flora, C. B. & Flora, J. L. (2007). Rural Communities: Legacy and Change (3rd ed.). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
- Forrest, R. & Kearns, A. (2001). Social cohesion, social capital and the neighbourhood. Urban Studies 38(12), 2125–2143. DOI: 10.1080/00420980120087081.
- Giddens, A. (1991). Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
- Glasgow, N. & Brown, D. L. (2012). Rural ageing in the United States: Trends and contexts. Journal of Rural Studies 28(4), 422–431. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.01.002.
- Green, G. P. & Haines, A. (2016). Asset Building & Community Development (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
- Hair, J. F., Black, W. C., Babin, B. J. & Anderson, R. E. (2014). Multivariate Data Analysis (7th ed., Pearson New International Edition). Harlow: Pearson Education.
- Halfacree, K. (2006). Rural space: Constructing a three-fold architecture. In Cloke, P., Marsden, T. & Mooney, P., eds., Handbook of Rural Studies (pp. 44–62). London: SAGE. DOI: 10.4135/9781848608016.n4.
- Ham, S. & Woolcock, G. (2022). “Who do they think they are?”: social identity & conflict in small rural community. Rural Society, 31(1), 33–48. DOI: 10.1080/10371656.2022.2061723.
- Hox, J., Moerbeek, M. & Van de Schoot, R. (2017). Multilevel Analysis: Techniques and Applications. London: Routledge.
- Jarmoszko, S. (2016). Kultura bezpieczeństwa społecznego a kwestia zrównoważonego rozwoju. Kultura Bezpieczeństwa 6, 97–126.
- Jezierska-Thöle, A. (2018). Rozwój obszarów wiejskich Polski Północnej i Zachodniej oraz Niemiec Wschodnich. Toruń: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UMK.
- Kovách, I. & Kučerová, E. (2006). The Project Class in Central Europe: The Czech and Hungarian Cases. Sociologia Ruralis 46(1), 3–21. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2006.00403.x.
- Kumpulainen, K., Husu, H. M. & Nousiainen, M. (2022). Political community resilience in declining rural areas in Finland. Community Development Journal 57(3), 449–468. DOI: 10.1093/cdj/bsab012.
- Lewicka, M. (2011). Place attachment: How far have we come in the last 40 years? Journal of Environmental Psychology 31(3), 207–230. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2010.10.001.
- MacKinnon, D. & Derickson, K. D. (2013). From resilience to resourcefulness: A critique of resilience policy and activism. Progress in Human Geography 37(2), 253–270. DOI: 10.1177/0309132512454775.
- Magis, K. (2010). Community resilience: An indicator of social sustainability. Society and Natural Resources, 23(5), 401–416. DOI: 10.1080/08941920903305674.
- Marody, M. et al. (2019). Społeczeństwo na zakręcie. Zmiany postaw i wartości Polaków w latach 1990–2018. Warszawa: Scholar.
- Milbourne, P. (2012). Everyday (in)justices and ordinary environmentalisms: Community gardening in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods. Local Environment 17(9), 943–957. DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2011.607158.
- Nguyen, H. L. & Akerkar, R. (2020). Modelling, Measuring, and Visualising Community Resilience: A Systematic Review. Sustainability 12, Article ID: 7896. DOI: 10.3390/su12197896.
- Palermo, V., Sergi, S. B. & Sironi, E. (2022). Does urbanization matter? Diverging attitudes toward migrants and Europe’s decision-making. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 83, Article ID: 101278. DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2022.101278.
- Phillipson, C. (2007). The ‘elected’ and the ‘excluded’: Sociological perspectives on the experience of place and community in old age. Ageing & Society 27(3), 321–342. DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X06005629.
- Prusaczyk, A. et al. (2023). Health Care Organization in Poland in Light of the Refugee Crisis Related to the Military Conflict in Ukraine. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20(5), Article ID: 3831. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20053831.
- Putnam, R. D. (1995). ‘Bowling alone’: America’s declining social capital. Journal of Democracy 6(1), 65–78. DOI: 10.1353/jod.1995.0002.
- Putnam, R. D. (2000). Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon & Schuster.
- Raudenbush, S. W. & Bryk, A. S. (2002). Hierarchical Linear Models: Applications and Data Analysis Methods (Vol. 1). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
- Rosner, A. (ed.) (2002). Wiejskie obszary kumulacji barier rozwojowych. Warszawa: IRWiR PAN.
- Ross, C. E., Mirowsky, J. & Pribesh, S. (2001). Powerlessness and the amplification of threat: Neighborhood disadvantage, disorder, and mistrust. American Sociological Review 66, 568–591. DOI: 10.2307/3088923.
- Scott, M. (2013). Resilience: a conceptual lens for rural studies? Geography Compass 7(9), 597–610. DOI: 10.1111/gec3.12066.
- Shapira, S. (2022). Trajectories of community resilience over a multi-crisis period: A repeated cross-sectional study among small rural communities in Southern Israel. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 76, Article ID: 103006. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103006.
- Sherrieb, K., Norris, H. F. & Galea, S. (2010). Measuring capacities for community resilience. Social Indicators Research 99, 227–247. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-010-9576-9.
- Shucksmith, M. (2009). Disintegrated rural development? Neo-endogenous rural development, planning and place-shaping in diffused power contexts. Sociologia Ruralis 50(1), 1–14. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2009.00497.x.
- Shucksmith, M. (2018). Re-imagining the rural: From rural idyll to Good Countryside. Journal of Rural Studies 59, 163–172. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.07.019.
- Skerratt, S. (2013). Enhancing the analysis of rural community resilience: Evidence from community land ownership. Journal of Rural Studies 31, 36–46. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2013.02.003.
- Skidmore, M. & Toya, H. (2002). Do Natural Disasters Promote Long-Run Growth? Economic Inquiry 40(4), 664–687. DOI: 10.1093/ei/40.4.664.
- Sørensen, E. & Torfing, J. (2005). The Democratic Anchorage of Governance Networks. Scandinavian Political Studies 28(3), 195–218. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9477.2005.00129.x.
- Straub, A. M., Vadjunec, J. M. & Fagin, T. D. (2024). Networks of Inclusive Exclusion: Social Capital and Resilient Rural Livelihoods in the Southern Great Plains (SGP). Human Ecology, 52(6), 1309–1327. DOI: 10.1007/s10745-025-00565-1.
- Stockdale, A. (2006). Migration: Pre-requisite for rural economic regeneration? Journal of Rural Studies, 22(3), 354–366. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2005.11.001.
- Szymańska, D. (2013). Geografia osadnictwa. Warszawa: PWN.
- Wiig, S. & Fahlbruch, B., eds. (2019). Exploring Resilience: A Scientific Journey from Practice to Theory. Cham: Springer.
- Wilson, G. (2012). Community Resilience and Environmental Transitions. London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9780203144916.
- Woods, M. (2010). Rural. London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9780203844304.
- OECD (2022). Urban-Rural Linkages in Poland. OECD Regional Development Studies. Paris: OECD Publishing. DOI: 10.1787/94b5c782-en.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2026-0005 | Journal eISSN: 1803-8417
Language: English
Page range: 90 - 110
Submitted on: Jul 30, 2025
Accepted on: Dec 12, 2025
Published on: Apr 1, 2026
Published by: Mendel University in Brno
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
Related subjects:
© 2026 Anna Miklaszewska, Małgorzata Marks-Krzyszkowska, published by Mendel University in Brno
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.