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Spatial Diversity of Environmental Governance in the Aspect of Sustainable Development of the Polish-Czech Border Area

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The current action plan for implementing sustainable development is the “Agenda for Sustainable Development 2030” includes the goals which determine the three dimensions of sustainable development, i.e. economic, social and environmental. Dynamically developing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and widespread availability of spatial information resources are analytical tools supporting the monitoring and implementation of these objectives and are widely applicable in this research area. The aim of the study was to determine the spatial diversity of the environmental governance level and its components in the following areas: climate change, energy, air protection, land use, biodiversity and waste management. With regard to the spatial issue of the study, the districts of Dolnośląskie, Opolskie and Śląskie Provinces were analysed, which are located on the Polish-Czech border. Indicators and metadata characterising the environmental governance were obtained from the platform reporting sustainable development indicators, which were implemented in the ArcGIS programme. In order to obtain the typology of the studied area, due to the spatial variability of environmental governance indicators, research methods in the field of multidimensional data mining techniques and geospatial analyses were used. The analyses carried out indicate spatial diversity of the environmental governance in terms of sustainable development of the analysed areas.