Sustainable Development of the Rural Areas in Poland in the Aspect of Environmental Order

The aim of the elaboration is to evaluate the level, changes and spatial diversity of selected parameters of the environmental order in the context of realization of conception of sustainable development in the rural areas of Poland in the cross-section of voivodships in years 2005-2015. The research proceedings consisted of three stages. In the first stage, based on the literature, the indicators describing the thematic areas of the environmental order were reviewed. The second stage embraced the analysis of the level and changes and spatial diversity of the selected five components of the environmental order. The last, third stage was based on creating synthetic measurer of the development’s level of the environmental order and on showing the spatial diversity in this range in the cross-section of the voivodships. The results of the conducted research indicated substantial spatial diversity, both in case of particular elements creating environmental order in the rural areas of Poland and the phenomena as a whole.