Piotr Matczak

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• PhD
• Head of Department at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

This study investigates whether the reluctance toward energy transition in Poland and Hungary-countries considered populist, supportive of traditional energy models, and laggards in European Union climate policy-is due to ideological or structural reasons. Despite sharing several characteristics, these countries differ in their energy mixes. We col...

This paper addresses the realm of planning and managing greenery in multifamily residential areas. We uncover parallels between practitioners' approaches, residents' preferences, and the spatial attributes of residential areas that influence the supply of ecosystem services (ES). We focus on cultural ecosystem services (CES), the most directly expe...

This is the authorized transcript of a discussion the Kamińskis’ book. The discussants pointed out the impact of internal threats to liberal democracy, such as the growth of state regulation over the economy and bureaucratization, the oligarchization of democratic elites, populism, and cultural relativism. The discussants also analyzed external thr...

Collecting opinions regarding environmental management is essential, particularly in urban areas where space is limited, and interests often collide. However, the impact of the conditions in which the research is conducted on opinions and preferences elicited via surveys and interviews about the environment is usually taken for granted. The recent...

Increased development in rural and urban areas leads to a decrease in tree cover and reduces the ecosystem services that trees provide. Municipal authorities must consider managing trees on private land to ensure that residents have access to trees and green spaces. In doing so, they must frequently confront conflicting stakeholder views, which are...

The increasing number of extreme weather events (EWEs) poses a challenge for communities and agencies responsible for risk management. While large cities receive attention due to their significant exposure, there is less research concerning resilience on the local level, where losses can be smaller compared with large cities but severe for small co...

Public opinion is increasingly important in managing urban greenery. In this regard, this study demonstrates the importance of sociological (environmental worldviews), psychological (place attachment, perceived benefits of trees), and physical factors (type of building people live in, and urban greenery) in forming residents' opinions on whether th...

The implementation of nature‐based solutions that involve natural processes to mutually decrease flood risk and protect natural ecosystems can be an answer to the demand for resilient flood risk management (FRM). As an example of a nature‐based solution, flood polders have the potential to deliver those benefits; however, a need for innovation is o...

Based on data from eight Polish cities, we tested if closed-circuit television (CCTV) monitoring systems are effective in crime reduction and if the CCTV monitoring effects are durable. In a quasi-experimental method, we applied police data about four types of crime incidents in 2005–2014 as well as camera location. A preventive effect appeared in...

Closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance has been increasingly popular worldwide as a crime prevention measure, while its effectiveness, efficiency, and related privacy issues are debated. In this paper, we investigated whether the municipal CCTV surveillance system is cost-effective in the case study of Poznan, Poland. The analysis comprised...

Policies and strategies for tree management and protection on a national, regional, and local level have not sufficiently considered differences between rural and urban areas. We used expert knowledge to compare rural and urban areas in a case study evaluating the relative importance of ecosystem services (ES) in policy development. The Analytic Hi...

This paper presents a study on participatory budgeting in Poland, analyzing participatory budgeting procedures. We apply the typology of participation models proposed by Sintomer, and based on the previous research we investigate which model of participatory budgeting is characteristic for Poland. This study covered 49 cases of participatory budget...

Studies on society and the environment interface are often based on simple questionnaires that do not allow for an in-depth analysis. Research conducted with geo-questionnaires is an increasingly common method. However, even if data collected via a geo-questionnaire are available, the shared databases provide limited information due to personal dat...

There has been an upsurge in studies of flood risk governance (FRG): steering and decision‐making by public and private actors as a complement to risk assessments and technical management options. The scholarly debate is, however, highly fragmented, complicating the production of cumulative insights. To address this knowledge gap, we used six gover...

Few studies have investigated relational environmental views of different stakeholder groups. In this study, we investigated how residents of rural and urban municipalities view the management of trees (who should decide about trees’ removal – the landowner, or the municipality), which provides a various range of ecosystem services and the extent t...

In this paper we propose a methodology for combining remotely sensed data with field measurements to assess selected tree parameters (diameter at breast height (DBH) and tree species) required by the i-Tree Eco model to estimate ecosystem services (ES) provided by urban trees. We determined values of ES provided by trees in 2017 in Racibórz (a city...

This chapter tests whether a group of landowners living in the upstream part of a river basin could change land use to increase retention and thus decrease flood risk of the other group living in downstream parts of the river basin.

The relationship between specific ecosystem services (ES) and different types of conflicts are explored to aid understanding of the barriers to effective biodiversity conservation management. Drawing from conflict theory, content analysis is undertaken of public documents generated during consultations about Natura 2000 management that were conduct...

Trees growing on private property have become an essential part of urban green policies. In many places, restrictions are imposed on tree removal on private property. However, monitoring compliance of these regulations appears difficult due to a lack of reference data and public administration capacity. We assessed the impact of the temporary suspe...

A collective work of the researchers representing various academic disciplines, areas of expertise and fields of science as well as different generations, which aims to present interdisciplinarity as an essential element of research activity. The scholars share their experience and thoughts relating – directly or indirectly – to advantages and disa...

There is lively scholarly and societal debate on the need to diversify flood risk management strategies to contribute to more flood resilience. The latter requires dedicated governance strategies related to which relevant insights are currently emerging. However, more systematic theoretical and empirical insights on how to specify and implement gov...

Środowisko przyrodnicze można badać w odniesieniu do jego fizycznychcharakterystyk bądź też odwołując się do jego społecznej percepcji. Dobra środowiskowemają bowiem również wymiar społeczny. Jako takie wymagają one jednak norm i regulacjipozwalających na ich ochronę i efektywne zarządzanie, ze względu na wielość postaw i poglądów obecnych w społec...

W Polsce, podobnie jak w innych krajach, brakuje jednoznacznego i uzgodnionego wyjaśnienia przyczyn obniżenia poziomu przestępczości odnotowanego w ostatnich kilkunastu latach. W artykule analizowany jest wpływ systemów monitoringu wizyjnego na straty powodowane przez trzy kategorie przestępstw: (a) kradzież samochodu, kradzież z włamaniem do samoc...

Proverbs are a part of traditional knowledge that has been increasingly acknowledged to be a valuable source of information for environmental policies. Proverbs on weather convey the cumulated experience of generations that provide guidelines for agricultural practices, everyday decisions, and other situations. Besides the value the proverbs have i...

In this paper, we present a case of Poland as an example of transition country with relatively weak civil society, yet in a process of developing its active public model. A vibrant civil society is often given as a condition for the prospects for democracy and stability in the post-communist context. In this respect, a closer look at the Polish cas...

Flood recovery is an important period in the flood risk management cycle. Recently, flood recovery has become viewed as an opportunity for future flood damage mitigation. Financial flows to cover flood damages and rules regarding their allocation are crucial for supporting or undermining mitigation efforts. In this paper, we map and compare state f...

In this chapter, we present the small retention programs that have been undertaken in the Polish forests. The context of the programs is outlined with an emphasis on property rights, actors engaged, nature conservation and flood management aspects, and finally on the issues of up-scaling.

This paper examined how the ecosystem services (ES) concept was employed as a tool for stakeholders from different social and professional worlds to deliberate about the management of Natura 2000 areas in Poland. Drawing from Framing Theory and discourse analysis, we analyzed public documents that were generated over a five-year period. We observed...

Progress in surveillance technology has led to the development of Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) systems in cities around the world. Cameras are considered instrumental in crime reduction, yet existing research does not unambiguously answer the question whether installing them affects the number of crimes committed. The quasi-experimental method...

Flooding is the most common of all natural disasters and accounts for large numbers of casualties and a high amount of economic damage worldwide. To be ‘flood resilient’, countries should have sufficient capacity to resist, the capacity to absorb and recover, and the capacity to transform and adapt. Based on international comparative research, we c...

Citizens in Europe are increasingly being encouraged by policymakers to contribute to flood risk governance (FRG) by taking individual and/or community-based flood risk measures (e.g. implementing property-level protection measures). This trend might be described as a transition towards 'co-produced' FRG between public authorities and citizens. The...

Jednym z dyskutowanych aspektów partycypacji obywateli w zarządzaniu na poziomie lokalnym są procedury określane mianem budżetowania partycypacyjnego czy częściej – budżetów obywatelskich. Istotą partycypacji jest dialog władz lokalnych z obywatelami w zakresie redystrybucji zasobów publicznych, chociaż redystrybucja i alokacja to tylko jedna z lic...

In both academic literature and flood risk management practices, it is argued that governance initiatives are needed to enhance the flood resilience of urban agglomerations. Multiple levels of governance will be involved in this activity. However, thus far, the literature has hardly addressed what mechanisms are required to coordinate the different...

As flood impacts are increasing in large parts of the world, understanding the primary drivers of changes in risk is essential for effective adaptation. To gain more knowledge on the basis of empirical case studies, we analyze eight paired floods, i.e. consecutive flood events that occurred in the same region, with the second flood causing signific...

Floods are challenging the resilience of societies all over the world. In many countries there are discussions on diversifying the strategies for flood risk management, which implies some sort of policy change. To understand the possibilities of such change, a thorough understanding of the forces of stability and change of underlying governance arr...

In Polen existieren eingängige rechtliche Regelungen, die im Falle der Krisenintervention die Einschränkung von Grund- und Freiheitsrechten erlauben, wie sie von der Verfassung (von 1997) garantiert werden. Die entsprechenden ausnahmezustandlichen Regelungen werden in der Verfassung festgelegt und in nachgeordneten Gesetzen weiter spezifiziert. Dre...

This paper presents how the approaches to flood risk in Poland have evolved over the last 25 years. The reliance on structural defence and on the state as the key responsible actor was challenged by four triggering events: two large floods; the collapse of the communist system; and the European Union accession. The paper reveals that (a) the radica...

Od 25 lat zjawisko partycypacji jest szeroko dyskutowane na całym świecie. Jedną z przyczyn tak dużego zainteresowania może być zjawisko przemieszczania się (dosłownie travelling) polityk publicznych (Ward 2006), np. budżetów obywatelskich (BO), które stają są coraz powszechniej stosowane w różnych częściach świata. Na przełomie lat 80’ i 90’ XX w....

European countries face increasing flood risks because of urbanization, increase of exposure and damage potential, and the effects of climate change. In literature and in practice, it is argued that a diversification of strategies for flood risk management (FRM), including flood risk prevention (through proactive spatial planning), flood defense, f...

Society is faced with a range of contemporary threats to everyday life, from natural and technological hazards to accidents and terrorism. These are embodied within integrated emergency management arrangements that are designed to enhance preparedness and response to such incidents, and in turn facilitate a prompt recovery. Such arrangements must b...

We seek to examine the manner in which either the EU member states of France, the Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden or parts of them, such as the country of England in the UK or the Flemish Region in Belgium, deal with the distributional effects of the flood risk management strategies prevention, defense, and mitigation. Measures carried out in each...

This paper interprets differences in flood hazard projections over Europe and identifies likely sources of discrepancy. Further, it discusses potential implications of these differences for flood risk reduction and adaptation to climate change. The discrepancy in flood hazard projections raises caution, especially among decision makers in charge of...

This chapter examines opportunities for learning in the area of flood risk reduction in Poland, that was devastated by several recent floods, in particular in 1997 and 2010. We can learn from a champion, such as Gilbert F. White, a great visionary who revolutionized flood risk management. We can learn from own past failures of ourselves or from fai...

In Poland floods are the predominant natural disasters entailing large losses. In the paper it is presented how flood risk management is organized in Poland, and how the approaches to flood risk in the country evolve. The focus is on organisation of flood risk management. Public policies and activities of public administration are analysed. Based o...

Diversification of Flood Risk Management (FRM) Strategies is widely regarded as a necessary step forward in terms of lessening the likelihood and magnitude of flooding, as well as minimizing the exposure of people and property, and in turn the disruption, economic damage, health impacts and other adverse consequences that ensue when floods occur. T...

Working Paper, prepared within HESP Visiting Junior Fellow Program with the Environmental Sciences and Policy Department, Central European University, Budapest

The European Union (EU) Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires EU member states to produce and implement river basin management plans, which are to be designed and updated via participatory processes that inform, consult with, and actively involve all interested stakeholders. The assumption of the European Commission is that stakeholder participa...

Supplementary Materials: Transforming European Water Governance? Participation and River Basin Management under the EU Water Framework Directive in 13 Member States. The supporting information provides the variable descriptions and a detailed account of the data aggregation procedures employed during the analysis, as well as a list of literature so...

Communities in cities were transformed significantly in the second half of the twentieth century. Weaker social ties and growing individualism have been combined with the growing role of formal institutional structures. Local governments became increasingly dominated by central structures. Decentralisation emerged as an attempt to reform this tende...

Observations of the past and projections for the future show an increase of flood risk in the world, at any spatial scale, due to changes in land use, including urbanization, increase of damage potential and due to climate change. No country can satisfactorily cope with floods. Flood losses have not been diminishing, despite attempts to reduce the...

Odrodzenie samorządu terytorialnego w 1990 r. stanowiło zasadniczą zmianę ustrojową. Niedawno minęło 25 lat od tego wydarzenia, ale obraz rozwoju samorządności w Polsce trudno jednoznacznie ocenić. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest zarysowanie odpowiedzi na pytanie, w jakim stopniu oczekiwania związane z rewitalizacją społeczności lokalnych poprzez o...

The conceptual impact of ecosystem services (ES) concept was emphasized by its use as a framework for the three influential research initiatives MEA 2005, TEEB 2010, CICES 2011. The concept is intended to support policies aiming at sustainable development and it is applied for environmental policy prescriptions (Balvanera 2013, Garcia-Nieto et al....

The STAR-FLOOD (Strengthening and Redesigning European Flood Risk Practices Towards Appropriate and Resilient Flood Risk Governance Arrangements) project, funded by the European Commission, investigates strategies for dealing with flood risk in six European countries: Belgium, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden and in 18 vulnerable...

Economic losses caused by hydrological extremes – floods and droughts – have been on the rise, worldwide. Hydrological extremes jeopardize human security and cause serious threats to human life and welfare and societal livelihood. Floods and droughts can undermine societies' security, understood as freedom from threat and the ability of societies t...

The first public product of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is its Conceptual Framework. This conceptual and analytical tool, presented here in detail, will underpin all IPBES functions and provide structure and comparability to the syntheses that IPBES will produce at different spatial scales, on diffe...

Economic losses caused by hydrological extremes – floods and droughts – have been on the rise. Hydrological extremes jeopardize human security and impact on societal livelihood and welfare. Security can be generally understood as freedom from threat and the ability of societies to maintain their independent identity and their functional integrity a...

Rozwój technologii informatycznych w ciągu ostatnich 25 lat zmienił kontekst i praktykę partycypacji. Pojawiło się pojęcie „e-partycypacja”, które oznacza interakcję między sferą społeczeństwa obywatelskiego a formalną sferą polityki i administracji za pośrednictwem technologii informatycznych. W artykule przedstawiono funkcje e-partycypacji, stoso...

Natural and man-made risks cause substantial and growing losses in Europe and the world (Howell, 2013; Smith, 2013), which poses challenges for national civil security governance systems (CSGSs), understood here as the organizations and processes engaged in the prevention of, preparedness for, mitigation of, response to and recovery from crises and...

Dealing with epidemics constitutes an undisputable part of civil security governance. Of all communicable diseases, the pandemic influenza is probably the most feared by both policymakers and health practitioners (Kamradt-Scott, 2012, p. 90). However, due to high levels of uncertainty which require contentious political choices it also challenges t...

Budżet partycypacyjny (ang. participatory budgeting), znany w Polsce najszerzej jako budżet obywatelski (BO), to „proces decyzyjny, poprzez który obywatele dyskutują i negocjują nad dystrybucją zasobów publicznych” (Wampler 2007). Jest to więc narzędzie wspomagania decyzji publicznych np. na poziomie samorządów gminnych, które angażują mieszkań-ców...

Badania nad partycypacją publiczną pokazują jak ważna jest rola angażowania lokalnych społeczności w proces ochrony bioróżnorodności. Pokazują jednak również pewne niedociągnięcia związane z tym zjawiskiem. Przykład wdrażania europejskiej sieci ochrony bioróżnorodności Natura 2000 ujawnił szereg trudności związanych z wprowadzaniem obszarów chronio...

Ecosystem Services approach enables the application of a comprehensive perspective in dealing with natural capital by using the metaphor of nature as a stock - within last decade it has been increasingly applied in biodiversity research and policy This paper presents results of a study conducted within the project LINKAGE that aims at enhancing pr...

National civil security systems (CSSs) are powerful risk management tools. They do, however, sometimes fail to adjust, as e.g. the Fukushima disaster demonstrates. Understanding the (mal)adaptation of CSSs is thus crucial. Yet, comprehensive analyses of the evolution of CSSs are not common. It is the aim of this paper to fill this gap and, more imp...

Within the last decade, the ecosystem services concept has been increasingly applied in biodiversity research and policy . This approach enables the application of a comprehensive perspective in dealing with natural capital by using the metaphor of nature as a stock. Following Constanza et al., ecosystem goods (such as food) and services (such as w...

Within the last decade, the ecosystem services concept has been increasingly applied in biodiversity research and policy . This approach enables the application of a comprehensive perspective in dealing with natural capital by using the metaphor of nature as a stock. Following Constanza et al., ecosystem goods (such as food) and services (such as w...

The security challenges that European states face – now and in the future – are daunting. Increased complexity of critical infrastructures, climate change, extraordinary technological innovation, international power shifts, cyber-attacks, energy shortages and environmental degradation create new and unforeseen challenges. In addition, Europe...

In the paper it is investigated what is the relative role of economic, regulatory (legal) and informational/educational incentives in the biodiversity protection in the case of NATURA 2000 network introduction in Poland. The analysis is based on the review of the legislative and policy documents as well as on the interviews with the stakeholders. I...

Sąd obywatelski to technika konsultacji społecznych inspirowana instytucją ławników ugruntowaną w sądownictwie Stanów Zjednoczonych. Przedmiotem artykułu jest analiza pierwszego przeprowadzonego w Polsce sądu obywatelskiego, który został zorganizowany w celu rozwiązania sporu dotyczącego charakteru jednej z poznańskich ulic. Wnioski z przeprowadzon...

This report is a part of the LIKNAGE project and presents the results of an investigation on the extent the Ecosystem Services (ES) concept is present in the Polish and Norwegian natural environment conservation legislation, policies and natural environment conservation practices. The ES concept offers a comprehensive view on ecological processes a...

Increase of human impact on the environment entailed increase of the numbers of natural disasters and related economic and human losses in last decades. Climate projections suggest further intensification of risks. At the same time, the growth of welfare in many countries, including Poland, increases loss potential. Although Poland is not particula...

Poland is a country where a climate change warming signal can be detected in temperature, but observed changes in other variables, and especially in precipitation, are complex. Temperature projections indicate further warming, but models do not agree as to seasonal distribution of changes in precipitation. This article reviews evidence for climate...

Whilst mitigation has dominated policy and research agendas in recent years there is an increasing recognition that communities also need to be preparing for change that is unavoidable, partially a consequence of anthropogenic greenhouse gases already emitted to the atmosphere. The perceived need for adaptation has also received additional impetus...