**Krystyna Kurowska**

Interests: rural areas; sustainability; spatial planning; land use change; land use modeling; environmental analysis; urbanization

Main research objective: to formulate principles for using spatial data and spatial analyses in the promotion of sustainable development in rural areas.

My research interests also focus on the protection of agricultural land and forests, land managemen<sup>t</sup> as an instrument for environmental protection, the absorption of EU funds and their influence on rural development, the managemen<sup>t</sup> of real estate owned by the State Treasury, and the promotion of local development based on environmentally friendly investment projects. I use GIS tools to identify various spatial phenomena and propose rational land managemen<sup>t</sup> practices.
