@article {4370,
	title = {Los proyectos JESSICA como catalizadores del desarrollo urbano sostenible en Polonia},
	journal = {CEPAL Serie Seminarion y Conferencias "Los desaf{\'\i}os de la planificaci{\'o}n para el desarrollo en Am{\'e}rica Latina y el Caribe: algoritmos, metodolog{\'\i}as y experiencias"},
	volume = {95},
	year = {2023},
	month = {02/2023},
	pages = {203-222},
	chapter = {203},
	abstract = {Una de las consecuencias negativas de los procesos de desarrollo que han tenido lugar en la Uni{\'o}n Europea son las disparidades en el desarrollo de las ciudades y zonas urbanas, que afectan tanto a los ciudadanos como al nivel de actividad econ{\'o}mica, lo que puede conducir a la degradaci{\'o}n del propio espacio. Las disparidades pueden entenderse como el resultado de un fallo del mercado. Por lo tanto, es preciso llevar a cabo intervenciones que guarden relaci{\'o}n con un proceso de regeneraci{\'o}n. A fin de abordar este problema, la Comisi{\'o}n Europea decidi{\'o} presentar la iniciativa de Ayuda Europea Conjunta en Apoyo de Inversiones Sostenibles en Zonas Urbanas (JESSICA), como parte de la pol{\'\i}tica de cohesi{\'o}n ejecutada en el per{\'\i}odo comprendido entre 2007 y 2013. JESSICA es un instrumento financiero rotatorio que se centra en el desarrollo sostenible de las ciudades, y 11 Estados miembros decidieron poner a prueba la soluci{\'o}n propuesta. El primer pa{\'\i}s en firmar el acuerdo fue Polonia, que implant{\'o} JESSICA en cinco regiones (Pomorskie, Mazowieckie, {\'S}l{\k a}skie, Wielkopolskie y Zachodniopomorskie). Este enfoque innovador entra{\~n}{\'o} numerosos desaf{\'\i}os para todas las partes interesadas (actores europeos, regionales y locales procedentes tanto del sectorp{\'u}blico como del privado) que participaron en la planificaci{\'o}n y la implementaci{\'o}n de la iniciativa. La metodolog{\'\i}a empleada se basa en el paradigma positivista, que examina las relaciones causales entre las intervenciones p{\'u}blicas (proyectos) y sus efectos. Se ha adoptado un enfoque realista en las t{\'e}cnicas de evaluaci{\'o}n, as{\'\i} como en nuestra propia evaluaci{\'o}n de todos los proyectos, realizada por expertos, que se han fundamentado a trav{\'e}s de numerosas herramientas anal{\'\i}ticas como el agrupamiento jer{\'a}rquico y aglomerativo. De las principales conclusiones del estudio se desprende que los proyectos ejecutados en Polonia tan solo cumplen parcialmente los supuestos te{\'o}ricos, y que las imensiones social y horizontal del desarrollo sostenible han estado infrarrepresentadas. Se observan ciertas divergencias a nivel regional en lo que respecta al enfoque modelo, y una regi{\'o}n destaca en cuanto a la calidad de los proyectos (Zachodniopomorskie). Los proyectos relacionados con el patrimonio hist{\'o}rico o cultural, seguidos de los que se centran en la reconversi{\'o}n de los terrenos industriales abandonados, son los que mejor reflejan la complejidad del desarrollo urbano sostenible},
	keywords = {EU, EU funds, financial engineering, JESSICA, Poland, sustainable development, urban regeneration},
	issn = {1680-9041},
	url = {https://hdl.handle.net/11362/48685},
	author = {Ida Musia{\l}kowska and Piotr Idczak}
}
@book {4353,
	title = {Financial Engineering in Sustainable Funding of Urban Development in the EU Reflections on the JESSICA Initiative},
	year = {2022},
	pages = {1-243},
	publisher = {De Gruyter},
	organization = {De Gruyter},
	address = {Berlin/ Boston},
	abstract = {This theoretically rooted and research-based book provides insights on the JESSICA funding model which {\textendash} unlike the traditional non-repayable aid {\textendash} focuses on supporting sustainable urban development projects in a repayable and recyclable way. Looking through the lens of the JESSICA financial engineering mechanism used in urban transformation, it examines the functioning and performance thereof and formulates policy recommendations for the future. The aim of this volume is to contribute to a deeper understanding of the JESSICA sustainable funding model by exploring its repayable assistance mechanism to support sustainable urban development projects. The authors make several noteworthy contributions to the literature on EU cohesion policy and shed light on the use of the repayable instruments within public interventions, while providing, for the first time, a critical analysis of the JESSICA sustainable funding model from the holistic perspective which is especially relevant for supporting sustainable urban development. Financial Engineering in Sustainable Funding of Urban Development in the EU provides policy-significant findings that are important for EU cohesion policy in the field of repayable assistance to be reinvested in the long term in urban and regional transformation. Includes an in-depth exploration of the particular aspects of EU cohesion policy Provides theoretical discussion and empirics illustrated by figures and maps. 
Contributors are experts, representing policy-oriented and academic research.},
	keywords = {cohesion policy, EU, EU funds, financial engineering, JESSICA, Poland, urban development, urban policy, urban regeneration},
	isbn = {9783110762198},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110762198},
	url = {https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110762198/html$\#$overview},
	author = {Piotr Idczak and Ida Musia{\l}kowska}
}
@article {4323,
	title = {Urban Regeneration as a Specific Type of Public Policy Response to Urban Decline. The Case of Poland},
	journal = {Open Political Science},
	volume = {4},
	year = {2021},
	month = {08/2021},
	pages = {204-218},
	chapter = {204},
	abstract = {<p style="text-align: justify;">The paper examines the issue of whether the process of policy formulation and implementation on urban regeneration in Poland is done pursuant to the rules of a cycle of public policy-making. This is carried out through the use of the functioning cycle of public policy in Poland proposed by Zyba{\l}a (2015) that stresses the specificities of Polish conditions in the public policy-making. Hence, the aim of the study is to provide an overview of public policy-making on urban regeneration in the context of legislative and institutional-administrative practices. In the light of increasingly complex challenges faced by cities, there is a need for the necessary counter-balancing regeneration measures taking a form of state sponsored public policy. Therefore, the Act on Regeneration was adopted in 2015. The paper concludes that the adoption of this Act was dominated by the legislator which, with relatively little contribution from other stakeholders, resulted in a rather unambitious set of legal provisions on regeneration that have not substantially changed the instrumental approach of local authorities to urban regeneration.</p>},
	keywords = {Act on Regeneration, functioning cycle of public policy, Poland, public policy, urban regeneration},
	doi = {10.1515/openps-2021-0019},
	url = {https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/openps-2021-0019/html},
	author = {Piotr Idczak and Ida Musia{\l}kowska}
}
@article {4190,
	title = {Ecosystem services in the appraisal of the economic performance of urban regeneration projects exemplified by the JESSICA initiative},
	journal = {Economics and Environment},
	volume = {3},
	year = {2019},
	pages = {214-229},
	chapter = {214},
	abstract = {The purpose of this paper is to indicate the valuation importance of externalities derived from the urban ecosystem services (UES) in terms of their applicability in the appraisal process of urban regeneration projects co-financed from European funds. Specifically, it examines the impact of UES on the project{\textquoteright}s economic performance, and thereby on human quality of life. Using the discounted cash flow method, this paper estimates the project{\textquoteright}s economic performance indicators including the identified UES upon their prior valuation. The valuation was carried out on the basis of the benefit analysis, contingent valuation method-"willingness to pay" and benefit transfer method, as recommended by Bernaciak, Wojcieszak (2014) and Zawojska et al. (2016). Results show that urban projects including UES are characterised by the higher values of the economic performance indicators and they should be assessed higher than projects with little or no UES because of their stronger contribution to the sustainable development of urban areas. In spite of the fact that there are limitations due to the UES valuation techniques used in the study, the presented approach could be an important tool for the project{\textquoteright}s appraisal.},
	keywords = {economic performance, environmental externalities, JESSICA initiative, urban ecosystem services, urban regeneration},
	issn = {0867-8898},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.34659/2019/3/38},
	url = {http://ekonomiaisrodowisko.pl/uploads/Ei\%C5\%9A70/08\%20idczak.pdf},
	author = {Piotr Idczak and Ida Musia{\l}kowska and Karol Mrozik}
}
