Agata Warchalska-Troll, Ph.D.

I am a geographer specializing in socio-economic geography and spatial management. My PhD, conducted at the Department of Regional Development of the Institute of Geography and Spatial Management (Jagiellonian University), focused on the impact of national parks and Natura 2000 areas on the socio-economic development of selected municipalities in the Polish Carpathians. I also devoted several years of academic work to another part of the Carpathians – the Chornohora range in the Ukrainian Carpathians – collaborating on a project concerning traditional mountain summer farming in the context of environmental and social changes.

In addition to topics related to mountain environments, since my Master's thesis, which examined social and spatial challenges of large post-socialist housing estates in Katowice (Poland) – urban studies have also held an important place in my academic work. For over 10 years I have been working at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (Kraków, Poland), where I led interdisciplinary research on the social and environmental aspects of urban green spaces. I also served as editor of the quarterly Urban Development Issues.

At the Institute of Environmental Sciences, I work as an assistant professor (postdoc), within the HORIZON Europe program project Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment – "VALues and dependence of society on pollinatORs" (VALOR). My research here focuses on the intangible values and ecosystem services provided by wild pollinators.

My research interests cover social reception of nature conservation, environmental justice, traditional land use practices in the context of local communities’ attachment to nature, as well as green compact cities. 

 

Selected publications

Warchalska-Troll A., 2023. Nature conservation as a non-obvious context for the compact city idea, Urban Development Issues, 74: 125–131. https://doi.org/10.51733/udi.2023.74.11.

Warchalska-Troll A., Pistelok P. (eds.), 2023. Zieleń w centrach polskich miast. Stan, funkcje i wyzwania, Badania Obserwatorium Polityki Miejskiej, Instytut Rozwoju Miast i Regionów, Warszawa–Kraków. https://doi.org/10.51733/opm.2023.11 [in Polish]

Warchalska-Troll A., Warchalski T., 2022. The selection of areas for case study research in socio-economic geography with the application of k-means clustering, Wiadomości Statystyczne. The Polish Statistician, 67(2): 1-20. https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.7717

Warchalska-Troll A., 2019. Do Economic Opportunities Offered by National Parks Affect Social Perceptions of Parks? A Study from the Polish Carpathians, Mountain Research and Development, 39(1): 37-46. https://doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-18-00055.1

Warchalska-Troll A., 2018. Natura 2000 sites in the Polish Carpathians vs local development: inevitable conflict?, eco.mont Journal of Mountain Protected Areas Research and Management, 10(2): 50-58. DOI: 10.1553/eco.mont-10-2s50.

Trzepacz P., Warchalska-Troll A. (eds.), 2017. Rewitalizacja miast: teoria, narzędzia, doświadczenia, Instytut Rozwoju Miast, Kraków. [in Polish]

Warchalska-Troll A., Troll M., 2014. Summer Livestock Farming at the Crossroads in the Ukrainian Carpathians, Mountain Research and Development, 34(4): 344-355. http://dx.doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-14-00016.1

Warchalska-Troll A., 2013. Progress of rehabilitation of large housing estates in Katowice (Poland), Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 62(1): 102-112.

Troll M., Warchalska-Troll A., 2013. Obszary chronione [w:] Krukar W., Troll M. (red.) Czarnohora. Mapa turystyczno-nazewnicza, 1:50 000, Wydawnictwo Ruthenus, Krosno. [in Polish]

Warchalska-Troll A., 2012. How to measure susceptibility to degradation in large post-socialist housing estates? Prace Geograficzne, 130: 55-71.

Troll M., Warchalska A. (eds.), 2011. Huculszczyzna w badaniach młodych naukowców, Biblioteka Górska Centralnego Ośrodka Turystyki Górskiej PTTK, t. 13, COTG PTTK w Krakowie, IGiGP UJ, Kraków. [in Polish].