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SELECTED ASPECTS OF TRANSFORMATION IN COUNTRIES OF CENTRAL AND CENTRAL-EASTERN EUROPE A BOOK DEDICATED TO PROFESSOR OLEH SHABLIY UPON THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF SCIENTIFIC WORK edited by T. Michalski, A. Kuczabski Pelplin 2010 Reviewers: prof. Tadeusz Palmowski prof. Olga Zastavetska © by Authors Wydawnictwo “Bernardinum” Sp. z o.o. ul. Biskupa Dominika 11, 83-130 Pelplin, Poland phone: +48 58 5361757, fax +48 58 5361726 e-mail: [email protected] www.bernardinum.com.pl Professor Oleh Shabliy Printed in: Drukarnia Wydawnictwa “Bernardinum” Sp. z o.o., Pelplin ISBN 978-83-7380-816-4 Contents Oleksandra Vis’tak The researcher and pedagogue of a higher school in Ukraine .................. 7 Nikolay Bagrov Geography in the information world: tendencies, problems .................. 20 Kostyantyn Nemets, Ludmmyla Nemets Information-synergetic paradigm of social geography and the problem of sustainable development ........................................... 31 Oleksandr Topchiyev, Valentyna Olijnyk, Tatyana Melnychenko The concept of territory geoplanning in Ukrainian geography .............. 52 Roman Rudnicki Natural considerations for the regional diversification of absorption of European Union funds in Polish agriculture ................ 63 Anatoliy Jakobson Linguistic conflicts and problems of ethno-cultural policy in contemporary Ukraine: the view of an ecologist and marketologist .................................................................................................. 81 Aleksander Kuczabski The social support for administrative-territorial reform in Ukraine: key role of self-government ................................................... 105 Tomasz Michalski International transitions in Central Europe after 1989 ............................117 Stefan Buzar, Andreas Papastamou Network theory and town twinning: implications for urban development policy in post-socialist Europe ........................................... 129 6 Valeriy Rudenko Geographical problems of natural resources potential evaluation in Ukraine .................................................................................. 146 Natalia Scypion-Dutkowska Oleksandra Vis’tak The spatial and temporal car crime analysis in Szczecin (Poland) ...... 153 Uladzimir Valetka The researcher and pedagogue The evolution of the city’s size distribution in Belarus of a higher school in Ukraine and Poland in 1970–2009: the Markov chains analysis ........................... 190 Wojciech Janicki This article covers the biography and research record of the well-known The influence of the Polish-Ukrainian border scientist – Geographer, Cartographer and the expert in Ukrainian on the socio-economic situation of selected border communes ............ 208 studies. Małgorzata Flaga The most important spheres of his research interests – theoretical and Polesie as an area of depopulation in the Polish-Ukrainian methodological, geo-ecological, politico-geographic, historico-geographic, borderland ..................................................................................................... 234 mathematical and cartographic problems of Social Geography – have been singled out. Lucyna Przybylska The viewpoint of the scientist on the development of Ukrainian Human The influence of politics on the development Geography in the nearest perspective has been revealed. of the Roman Catholic parish network in Poland after 1945. Case study. Trójmiasto (Tricity) ................................................................. 250 1. Life Outline Ion Gumienny Distinguished Professor of Lviv National University named after I. Franko, Aspects concerning the confessional politics of the Russian Doctor of Geography, Academician at the Academy of Higher School of Empire at its western bordaries (The Case of Bessarabia) ..................... 261 Ukraine and Ukrainian Ecological Academy; Honorable Member of the Ukrainian Geographic Society, Full Member of the Scientific Society named Anna Dubownik after T. Shevchenko, Head of the Department of Economic and Social The role of IROP (Integrated Operational Programme of Regional Geography at Lviv University – Oleh Shabliy was born on the 14th of Development) in the execution of the local government’s November, 1935 to the family of a farmer in the village of Kurivtsi, Ternopil plans in the Piła sub-region in years 2004–2006 ...................................... 270 region, Ukraine. In his native village stretching along the narrow valley of the river Jolanta Mazurek Nesterivka, the left tributary of the river Seret, (Western Podillia) he spent Involvement on the part of local authorities and institutions in the his best years of the early childhood, though it was the period of war development of farm tourism in the rural areas of Koszalińskie hardships. He finished an elementary school there. In 1947 the eleven year Coast............................................................................................................... 281 old boy moves to school in the village of Velykyi Hlybochok. In the time of hard postwar years the son of a repressed farmer was threatened with being exiled to Siberia together with his father. Therefore, at the age of 14 (1950) he left his home to set out into the wide world, the first landmark on his paths of life becomsng Pedagogical College in the city of Berezhany on the river Zolota Lypa. When in Berezhany, O. Shabliy received only “excellent” marks and graduated from the college as a teacher of Mathematics with the diploma 8 Oleksandra Vis’tak The researcher and pedagogue of a higher school in Ukraine 9 “Cum laude”, so-called “5% diploma” (enabling the top 5% students to In the “glorious” Eighties of stagnation O. Shabliy organizes University enter a higher educational establishment without entrance exams). He – funded projects at his own Department, prepares and publishes three intended to apply to the Physics faculty at Lviv State University. Among school country-studies atlases (of the Lviv, Ivano-Frankivs’k and the three faculties proposed – Law, Philology and Geography – he chose Transcarpathian regions), works at the formation of large atlases of economic the latter one. complexes of two regions (Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv), the city of Lviv and The year before graduation from the University (1958) O. Shabliy was others. At present, under his supervision, the “Complex Atlas of Lviv” is offered a position at the Department of Economic Geography headed by being prepared for publication. Associate Professor (since 1971 – Professor) Opanas Vashchenko. In 1961 It was in the 1970s–1980s that the scientific and theoretical potential of the latter became a supervisor of the diploma paper of the budding scientist. the scientist found its mightiest manifestation. Apart from the development Working as Senior Lab Assistant then (from 1962 on as Associate Professor of the concept of the “interbranch territorial complexes” he advences the and a University teacher since 1964), O. Shabliy took a post-graduate course Law of the geospatial integration of production; he is the first to systematize by correspondence (1961–1965). In 1966 he defended his thesis (Candidate the laws and regularities of its territorial organization (1983), he substantiates of (Geography scientific degree)) “The Wood Industry Complex in the the principle of non-strict territorial systems integration into the systems Ukrainian Carpathians (Tendencies of Development and Structure). of a higher level (1984), suggests the idea of the general object, the subject However, a spell of humiliations, reprisals and hush-outs, followed, yet of particular objects, the content of Human Geography. the young scientist did not give in. He displayed an uttermist activity in But the talent of the scientist manifested itself to the full in the recent the pedagogic field (only three years afterwards – in 1969 – does he become eighteen years, when Ukraine gained independence. Professor O. Shabliy Associate Professor). He writes articles, monographies and makes a lot of becomes Head of the Department of Economic and Social Geography at reports at conferences. The field of his scientific interests broadens Lviv National University named after Ivan Franko (1990). Over that time considerably. Geographic and wood-production topics are gradually he has accomplished more than during all the previous decades. The supplemented with agroindustrial, transportation and recreation aspects. research topic of the Department was chosen to be “Social, Politico- With the flow of time all those subjects were integrated into the scientific geographic issues of Western-Ukrainian Border Area in the Context of problem of interbranch territorial complexes. This became the subject matter Eurointegration and Geostrategy of the Society”. Alongside the traditional of his Doctorate successfully supported in 1978 at the Qualificatory Council economico-geographic guidelines, demo-social-geographic and politico- of Leningrad University. The topic of his Doctorate is “The Interbranch geographic – world and country-studies ones started to develop. Territorial Complexes: Issues of the Theory and Methodology of Particularhy developed became historico-geographic investigations of Research”. the scientist himself and his followers – Associate Professors M. Vlakh, Everything passed successfully. But the defense of the thesis coincided I. Rovenchak, O. Vis’tak. Entered into the scientific circulation were the with the time of Communist – Bolshevik violence raging in Ukraine, names of