International Conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION Vol. XXIII No 2 2017 LOCAL SECURITY AS AN ELEMENT OF LOCAL DEVELOPMENT. CASE STUDY OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES OF THE CITIES IN THE EASTERN POLAND MACRO-REGION Paweł DZIEKAŃSKI*, Juljusz PIWOWARSKI,** *The Jan Kochanowski University (JKU) in Kielce, Poland, **University of Public and Individual Security APEIRON, Krakow, Poland pdziekan@interia.eu Abstract: The authors in this article present performance of public administration which concerns a basic process developing in the context of dynamics of security culture phenomenon that involves the use of local potential (including infrastructure, natural environment, finance, human capital). The process of development of a region is multifaceted. It involves any changes that are implemented at different paces and with varying intensity in economic, social, technical and environmental areas. Local security is a resulting category that allows to assess functioning of local economy. The aim of the article is to provide determinants that shape security at the local level in the context of the selected elements of the region’s balance (infrastructure and environment aspects) by the case of Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship municipalities for 2010 and 2015. In the calculations the data of the Central Statistical Office (Local Data Bank) were used. The determined synthetic measure allows to make hierarchy according to the adopted variables. It supplies information on the examined category of objects. It provides a comparative picture between the objects that were analysed, allows to indicate weaker and better areas of functioning of a unit. As it is shown in the article it gives a basis for the assessment of the effectiveness of the instruments of local authorities policy that were used in the past. The carried out statistic studies confirm existence of disparities in financial condition (financial security) of municipalities. Keywords: local security, synthetic measure, infrastructure, natural environment, city 1. Introduction The management of a regions means taking actions which aim at triggering a desired course of processes and phenomena within a territorial government, the effect of which is the development of a region. A territorial government is a very important element, not only social, but also socio-cultural and economic both in the scale of a region and the whole scale. The tasks, they implement, are of non-profit nature, which results in the fact that they are financed from public resources [8, 16]. The area of own tasks of a municipality include categories of technical and social infrastructure, public order and security and of spatial and ecologic order. Social expectations and need grow while the resources the territorial government units dispose of are limited, which in turn causes the need to use rational and effective methods of public resources management. The process of region’s development is of multidimensional nature. It includes all the transformations taking place at various pace and with different intensity in the economic, social, technical and environmental sphere. The development encompasses, however, not only the transformations of quantitative nature, but also of qualitative and structural essence [9]. Strategic management reduces and DOI: 10.1515/kbo-2017-0087 © 2017. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License. 53