Centrumok és perifériák a Monarchia szétesése után - az új határok racionalitásának vizsgálata gravitációs modellek alapján

The authors aim to investigate the racionality of the new borders based on 4 different and independent methods applied to examine whether the successor states fulfill the requirements of ideal state in geographical terms or not, comparing the results with the situation in 1850 and 1910. Apart from the area/perimeter ratio mainly social geographical methods, like the shift of the center of gravity (weighted by the role of geographical barriers, like mountains), the shift of equipotencial lines (in case of attraction zones), the applicability of the Chrystaller model were used to evaluate the results. The limits of the attraction zones tended to match the Hungarian border in north and south within the whole era, and the strange shape of Vienna’s attraction zone also equaled with Greater Austria (without Hungary) and Bosnia. Romania’s attraction zone remained nearly constant, including the eaternmost part of Transylvania Belgrade’s sphere of influence did not reach even Nis in 1850, but by 1940 Timisoara also became the part of its zone of attraction. A neutral zone belonging to nobody could be assigned to the Novi Sad-Timisoara-Cluj line

Differing development paths of spatial income inequalities after the political transition by the example of Hungary and its regions

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THE TERRITORIAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES AND IMPLEMENTED CROSS BORDER COOPERATION PROJECTS IN BIHOR COUNTY. AN ASSESSMENT OF THE 2007-2013 AND 2014-2020 PROGRAMMING PERIODS AND EXPLOITATION OF THE EU FUNDS FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF TOURISM

Bihor County has remarkable and various tourism resources in the frontier area which could be exploited more efficiently considering the tourism development strategies on different hierarchical levels, opportunities for investments using non-refundable financial support and the multilateral trans-frontier relationships due to its territorial location and historical and ethnical background. This study gives an insight in the relationship and consistency of development strategies, in the importance and the territorial distribution of implemented projects within Interreg IV and V Hungarian-Romanian Cross-border Cooperation Programmes, that concern tourism development in Bihor. All projects regarding Bihor were categorized through content and comparative analysis based on public documentation of Interreg Programmes which contributed to establishing three main category of winner applications: tourism development projects, indirect tourism development projects and other type of projects. The county has an exceptional position due to its high share of the number of projects and the amount of gained aid within the examined programmes, although there exist multilateral territorial inequalities in the location of project partners, in the total amount of non-refundable financial support from European Regional Development Fund and in the gained aid per capita on the level of local governments of the county. Based on the territorial distribution, mostly the urban areas and their catchment rural settlements on the eastern, central and north-western part of the county benefitted from the Interreg VI and V in case of tourism development

The Social Aspects and Public Acceptance of Biomass Giving the Example of a Hungarian Region

Biomass energy sources are the most promising, and most heavily subsidized renewable energy sources. The future of biomass energy in the global energy system depends on on many major factors, among others on the attitude of society to the biomass energy and the renewable energy resources. The purpose of the paper is to analyze the opportunities of utilization of biomass energy sources giving example of a Hungarian study area furthermore to study the public acceptance of renewable energy sources in a certain region. The study aims to explore the general knowledge, innovative attitude, acceptance and willingness of application as well as the estimation of the benefits of the use of RES within the inhabitants. Data collection has carried out by primary (questionnaire survey) and secondary ways in order to gain deep information from the target group (local people). The conclusion we can drawn from the analysis is that society take the biomass energy into consideration and its importance and responsibility is increasing. As far as the consciousness is concerned, the knowledge and the environmental friendly approach of inhabitants are also sufficient

Investigation of public attitude towards renewable energy sources using word association method in Hungarian settlements

In the framework of a questionnaire survey an attitude examination was conducted among inhabitants of 3-3 settlements of Hajdú-Bihar and Heves county in connection with the renewable energy sources. With the help of the word-association method authors tried to assess whether the population of the examined settlements is aware of the meaning of the renewable energy sources and its utilisation opportunities. Authors tried to determine the attitude of the inhabitants to the renewable energy sources. It turned out that the conceptual picture of the inhabitants about the renewable energy sources is quite superficial, but at the same time their attitude unambiguously positive. It turned out, that the inhabitants with higher educational level and the younger people have the most accurate knowledge about the renewable energy sources