European Union funds as a Stimulus of Rural Areas Proenvironmental Development - an Example of Rural Communities in the Wielkopolska Voivodeship
Abstract
The paper presents the opinion of rural communes of the Wielkopolskie voivodeship, about their participation in the EU funds for proenvironmental action development, scale and barriers of this phenomenon. Lack of financial resources has been recognised by the target communities as a major barrier to implementation of environmental protection activities, EU funds, in turn, an important source of support for this type of investment - up to 83% of the population has tried to obtain funds from the European Union for the environmental objectives. Funds from the European Union first of all served respondents to improve the area infrastructure of water and wastewater management.
Keywords
Rural areas; EU funds; Financial support; District
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Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Poznaniu Poland
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