Analysis of the revitalization process of voivodeships in Poland based on UTASTAR and TOPSIS methods.

Modern-day local governments face various challenges in the realms of geopolitics and socio-economic factors. Many times, intense transformations lead to crisis situations. Revitalization is a tool used by local governments to repair locally degraded areas. The paper focuses on discussing selected aspects of the revitalization process, using TOPSIS and UTASTAR methods. The study covered local government voivodeships in Poland and was based on secondary data for 2020-2021 published on the Statistics Poland website. The methods used made it possible to construct rankings that indicated that the voivodeships that could be considered leaders in revitalization are Greater Poland Voivodeship (UTASTAR) and Lubusz and Silesian Voivodeship (TOPSIS), whereas their opposite was the Opole Voivodeship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]