About the Author: Professor Jerzy Bański is a full professor of human geography at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences (IGSO PAS), Warsaw, Poland. His main research interests include rural and agricultural geography, land use, regional policy, spatial organization and local development. From 2018 he is the Director of the IGSO PAS, from 2006-2012 he was the President of the Polish Geographical Society and from 2017 he is the chair of the Commission of Local and Regional Development of the International Geographical Union. Jerzy Bański is author of some 390 publications, including 24 books and more than 190 peer reviewed papers. Since 2007 Dr. Marcin Mazur is employed as researcher at the Department of Rural Geography and Local Development at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. His main scientific field of interest is quantitative methods in human geography and cartography, statistical maps, periphery definition and delimitation. He is the author of approximately 40 scientific publications, cartographic editor of Atlas of Polish Agriculture as well as the scientific journals Rural Studies and Polish Geographical Journal. Since 2010 he is also member of the Main Board of the Polish Geographical Society.​