NEW VIEW TO THE LIVING CONDITIONS IN RURAL AREAS

Authors

  • Agnieszka Wojewódzka-Wiewiórska Warsaw University of Life Sciences
  • Vilma ATKOČIŪNIENĖ Vytautas Magnus University

Keywords:

rural areas, living conditions, social infrastructure

Abstract

Human living conditions are the opportunity to meet his everyday needs in the field of housing, trade, gastronomy, living services, health care, education, culture, leisure. In order to offer a new perspective on living conditions, we have linked them to rural social infrastructure. The purpose of the article is to present of the ways of defining the concept of living conditions indicated in the literature. To achieve the main goal, the following research tasks were formulated: (1) to indicate of similarities between definitions and different elements (2) propose a new approach to defining living conditions (from a local point of view, for rural areas). These questions guide our research work in order to gain a better understanding about how living conditions in rural areas develop. The main research methods were used: analysis and generalization of scientific literature and documents, abstraction method, logical and systematical reasoning, graphic presentation of comparison, abstracts and other methods. The research results disclosed that the living conditions could be highly affected by other spheres of life; highly diverse requires considering the subjective perceptions and assessments of the people who live and work in these rural area. A new approach to defining living conditions in rural areas is to relate living conditions to the social infrastructure.

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Published

2020-03-01

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Section

Social Research for Sustainable Bioeconomy and Climate Change