Human-environment relationships in modern and postmodern geography

Kőszegi, Margit; Bottlik, Zsolt; Telbisz, Tamás; Mari, László

doi:10.15201/hungeobull.64.2.1

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“…et al 2017;Kajner, P. et al 2017;Király, G. et al 2017), or on climate discourses and controversies (Jankó, F. et al 2010(Jankó, F. et al , 2011Bereczki, B.H. 2012;Kőszegi, M. et al 2015). However, we do not know enough about climate and climate change.…”

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Perception, understanding, and action: attitudes of climate change in the Hungarian population

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This study is based on a non-representative, national level survey sample whose main purpose is to interpret the general population's understanding of climate change. The study also provides an examination of correlations between climate change concerns and the taking of individual action as well as the relationship between pro-environmental thinking and climate change scepticism. Our results show a moderate correlation between the general population's concerns and the professional views on the subject, known in the literature as the New Environmental Paradigm scale and Scepticism scale, but a significantly weaker correlation when it comes to taking action against climate change. Factors relating to the respondents, such as residence settlement type, education level, gender, age, personal and social values, or casual attributions in relation to climate change heavily influence this weaker correlation. Most respondents assessed climate change as a current (urgent), but geographically remote phenomenon. This is a clear indication of problems associated with cognitive conceptualization and the localization of climate change in communication. The target audience must be taken into account when designing climate change communications because interpretations of climate change can vary widely and cover a broad range attitudes ranging from concern about to issue all the way to climate change scepticism. This also applies to views concerning responsibility for climate change with some believing it is a political responsibility and others believing it is a scientific responsibility.

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Perception, understanding, and action: attitudes of climate change in the Hungarian population

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“…Human-environment relations have always been in the focus of geographical thinking (see Kőszegi et al 2015). The idea that the physical environment, including the geological settings, influence people living there has a long tradition.…”

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Geological and Geomorphological Characteristics of Vikos Gorge and Tymphi Mountain (Northern Pindos National Park, Greece) and Karst-Related Social Processes of the Region

Telbisz

Stergiou

Mindszenty

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Due to unfavourable natural conditions (poor soils, lack of water, special relief conditions), karst terrains have always been relatively sparsely populated, and they have been seriously affected by recent depopulation processes. However, the creation of national parks on karst terrains and the recent increase of (geo)tourism may influence and even turn these population trends. Our study examines the validity of this statement in the context of Vikos Gorge and Tymphi Mountain (NW Greece). Geological and geomorphological values are presented first, including Vikos Gorge, the glaciokarst landscape of Tymphi and the particular spherical rock concretions. Digital terrain analysis is used to obtain scientifically based, reliable morphometric parameters about Vikos Gorge, and it is found that the maximum gorge depth is 1144 m, the maximum width is 2420 m, and the maximum of depth/width ratio is 0.76. Thereafter, rural depopulation trends are examined and it is found that this region (Zagori) is seriously affected by depopulation. It is observed that there are differences among settlements, and a relative stabilization of population is sensible in only few settlements around Vikos Gorge, which are linked to tourism. As for nature protection, while at the beginning conflicts were perceptible among management and local people, now new conflicts are emerging between growing tourism and nature protection goals.

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“…Local economic development is an emphatic question of the human-environment relations, which has been evaluated differently from time to time (Kőszegi et al 2015). The concept of local economic development is not unambiguous.…”

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New method to support decision making process in the local economic development of Hungary

Nagy-Molnár¹,

Lendvay²

2019

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This study provides a method that supports local governments' efforts to develop their economy with a set of instruments built on evidence-based decision making. The authors' first objective is to define the action space and opportunities by examining the relation between environmental factors and internal resources. To achieve this, an analytical tool was designed that discovers -with an indicator system -the network of internal factors of a settlement economy and the external environment affecting it. When studying local economic development, it is important to assess the local economy in situ and its interaction with its surroundings. The second objective is to discover and show the connection between the available tools and environmental factors, and thereby enable decision makers to take development actions based on evidence. The tools provide a quantified relationship between the possible actions and environmental factors made available by these actions. It is essential to determine which actions affect which environmental factors, and which factor they can help adjust. It is assumed that the development tools used by local governments are not equal in their effectiveness when interacting with the different environmental factors. The authors' third objective is to discover the relationship between the tools and internal resources, thereby ensuring a base for planning resources necessary for implementing economic development actions. According to their preliminary assumption, the relations between the available resources and local governmental tools are not of the same strength; therefore, it justifies their analysis. The next assumption is that areas affected by the same environmental factors can be devel- 70Melinda Nagy-Molnár -Endre Lendvay

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Human-environment relationships in modern and postmodern geography

Cited by 11 publications

References 34 publications

Perception, understanding, and action: attitudes of climate change in the Hungarian population

Perception, understanding, and action: attitudes of climate change in the Hungarian population

Geological and Geomorphological Characteristics of Vikos Gorge and Tymphi Mountain (Northern Pindos National Park, Greece) and Karst-Related Social Processes of the Region

New method to support decision making process in the local economic development of Hungary

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