Cecília Szigeti

• Doctor of Business Administration
• Head of Department at Budapest Metropolitan University

A magyar vasúti hálózat európai törzshálózatba (TEN-T) tartozó elemeinek teljes körű felújítása, modernizációja fokozott ütemben kezdődött meg a 2009-2016 közötti KÖZOP finanszírozási program keretében. A korszerű technológiák bevezetése kézenfekvő megoldás volt a vasúti alépítmény rehabilitációjának elvégzéséhez is tekintve a program során munkált...

Az országok fenntarthatósági teljesítményét mérő mutatószámok szükségessége a GDP-nek a jólét, a fenntarthatóság és az ellenálló képesség mérőszámaként való felhasználási korlátai miatt merült fel. A kutatók az elmúlt évtizedekben különféle indikátorokat és rangsorokat készítettek, amelyek a pusztán gazdasági növekedésről egy átfogóbb perspektívára...

In the 21st century, sustainability has become a prominent issue in the tourism sector. While conscious and responsible consumer decisions are increasingly prioritized in our daily lives, the question arises whether similar scrutiny is applied during leisure and business travel. In this recent empirical research, these questions are examined in det...

In this study, the household consumption-related ecological footprint of lifestyles linked to panel housing estates and suburban neighbourhoods were compared in the case of Budapest and its suburbs. Our results show that the biggest parts of the ecological footprint are in both study areas the carbon, the cropland and the forest components, in line...

Since the 1990s, road rail has once again become a key element of public transport in liveable modern cities. The design of these structures is greatly complicated by their complexity and the limited availability of data on the pouring material. While the railway designer typically deals only with the rails and the pouring material, the structural...

The aim of this study is to examine the role of the circular economy in employment and to prove this with statistically significant results. The paper includes an analysis of the 27 European Union Member States along specifically selected indicators. The methodology of the study is based on general statistical approaches, and the results obtained w...

In an increasingly urbanised economic environment, with more and more cities, there is a strong incentive for people to seek innovative local solutions to reduce their exposure to the risks of climate change. Accelerating urbanisation affects people in different ways, increasing exposure to the impacts of climate change. Air and surface temperature...

In the recent past we considered energy supply as a centrally managed, inexhaustible, cheep source of power, gas, water, heat. Nowadays, in the era of economic crises, growing number of warlike conflicts, vulnerable global supply chains, climate change - this is not that obvious anymore. As an aftermath of all recent changes, it common to talk abou...

The development of sustainability indicators at the national level emerged due to the limitations of using GDP as a measure of well-being, sustainability, and resilience. Over time, various indicators have been formulated, with a shift in focus from solely economic growth to a more encompassing perspective. The objective of this study was to integr...

The track system traditionally used in tramway track design is 59Ri2. Due to technical progress, the rigidity of modern flexible track structures has become sufficiently rigid and durable, and as a result, track systems with much lower inertia, such as Ts52, have also appeared. The use of the 59Ri2 rail system continues to dominate in embedded rail...

The revenues of the railway infrastructure managers are proportional to the volume of the traffic on the railway lines, supplemented by other revenues and subsidies. To maximise their revenues in a changing economic environment (where there is a tendency for the state to withdraw from funding), it is important to have and operate an infrastructure...

The development of sustainability indicators at the national level emerged due to the limitations of using GDP as a measure of well-being, sustainability, and resilience. Over time, various indicators and rankings have been formulated, with a shift in focus from solely economic growth to a more encompassing perspective. The objective of this study...

A COVID-19 járványhoz kapcsolódó korlátozások jelentős hatást gyakoroltak a fenntarthatóságra fókuszáló üzleti gyakorlatok elterjedésére. A tanulmány célja kettős: egyrészt feltárni, hogyan változott a fenntartható üzleti gyakorlatok fogyasztói elfogadása a járvány hatására, másrészt megvizsgálni, várható-e visszarendeződés a járvány elültével, aza...

Since the 1990s, tramway transport in East-Central Europe has been experiencing a renaissance. In urban planning practice, there has been a growing trend towards the displacement of individual motorized transportation, thereby reducing traffic congestion and air pollution, creating the foundations of a healthier, more liveable urban environment. In...

The circular economy (CE) is an alternative paradigm to the current "take-make-dispose" linear economy paradigm. Research shows that there are many examples of CE as a possible way to achieve decoupling in large companies in different industries. However, solutions from smaller companies that are closer to consumer needs, have been less studied. Th...

Analysts often treat the circular economy as a technical issue. They often focus on how to organise work processes better. The authors' concept is that circularity is much more than that, and a more precise and holistic approach can help create a better and more inclusive future for all. Young people play a key role in achieving a circular future (...

There are different definitions and conceptual approaches to ‘green jobs’ (‘green’ meaning to be related to the environmental pillar of sustainability). It is generally accepted that green jobs are those that contribute in some way to the preservation or restoration of the natural environment. The conceptual diversity also creates many difficult...

The Circular Economy (CE) is an alternative model to the existing current linear economy paradigm. Biogas utilisation is a typical form of the circular business model, also because of its physical and biological characteristics. Research on circular models for biogas plants is typically conducted in a country context due to the different geographic...

A hazai városokban a közelmúltban nagyvolumenű villamos beruházások zajlottak le, illetve állnak tervezés alatt. A projektek többsége meglévő vonalszakaszok korszerűsítéséről szólt, de új nyomvonalak építésére is találunk példát. Az újabb fejlesztések esetén hazánkban is egyre nagyobb teret hódítanak a kiöntött síncsatornás felépítmények. Cikkünkbe...

Due to the large volume and mass of materials used, the construction industry is one of the sectors with the highest environmental impact. However, to provide good quality, affordable, and low-energy housing, the business case must be maintained. Accordingly, we aimed to develop and test a calculator to measure the ecological footprint of the embod...

Under the CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive), companies already covered by the NFRD (NonFinancial Reporting Directive) will have to report on sustainability issues from 2024, large companies not covered by the NFRD from 2025 and listed SMEs from 2026. As of 2018, Hungarian companies under NFRD were required to report nonfinancial d...

In urban planning practice, there has been a growing trend towards the displacement of car traffic, thereby reducing traffic congestion and air pollution, creating the foundations of a healthier, more livable urban environment. In the Hungarian cities, large-scale investments have recently been carried out or are being planned. Most of the investme...

In the Hungarian cities, large-scale investments have recently been carried out or are being planned. Most of the investments focused the modernization and renovation of existing line sections, but there are also examples of new lines being built. Due to the increasing demands placed on rail transport (reduction of noise and vibration loads, as wel...

Urban green public spaces offer healthy and environmentally friendly solutions to the effects of rapid, unsustainable urbanization on health and well-being. Public green spaces available for walking, running, cycling, scootering, walking, informal play and other outdoor activities can improve the safe mobility and access to basic ecosystem, improvi...

The circular economy is often seen as a technical issue and focuses on the better organization of work processes. A more accurate and holistic approach to the cycle can help create a better and more inclusive future for all. The circular economy has been linked to several SDGs in previous research, of which our research focuses on SDG 12 (responsib...

A fenntarthatóság, mint összetett célrendszer, sokféleképpen értelmezhető és megközelíthető, de egyre hangsúlyosabbá válik az az elképzelés, hogy a fenntarthatóbb világ megteremtésének egyik kulcskérdése az egyenlőtlenségek csökkentése. A munkáltatóknak közvetlen felelőssége és jelentős mozgástere van a méltányos bérrendszerek kialakításában. A HR-...

A fenntarthatóság fogalmát, tartalmát tengernyi szakirodalom taglalta, járta körül az elmúlt évtizedekben, publikációk ezrei fókuszáltak a vezetői kezdeményezések, vállalati jógyakorlatok mind elméleti, mind pedig gyakorlati szegmenseire. Cikkünkben egy eddig szerény érdeklődést kiváltó kérdéssel foglalkozunk: a „zöld munkahely” többféleképpen érte...

A II. világháborút követően a városi közlekedésben háttérbe szorult a villamos vasúti közlekedés ennek jegyében 1959-ben Pécsett, 1969-ben Nyíregyházán és 1974-ben Szombathelyen megszűnt a villamosvasúti közlekedés, valamint Debrecenben 1, míg Miskolcon pedig 2 vonal üzemelt tovább. Az 1990-es évektől a villamosvasúti közlekedés ismét fellendülő te...

Napjaink egyik legnagyobb fenntarthatósági kihívása a városok komplex, fenntartható fejlesztése, amelynek egyik központi eleme a városi mobilitás infrastruktúrájának átalakítása (Rydin et al. 2012, Czédli 2017, Varga et al, 2021). A villamoshálózat fejlesztésének jelentősége jóval nagyobb, mint a szerepe az autómentes közlekedésben. A villamoshálóz...

The European urban landscape has been constantly evolving in the last 70 years since the Second World War. Thus, European cities are developing their own public transport networks. Urban rail transportation, namely trams, can be considered a mobility option with (1) high capacity, (2) relatively low life-cycle cost, and (3) low Greenhouse Gas (GHG...

a Széchenyi István Egyetem, 9026. Győr, Egyetem tér 1, Hungary b Budapesti Gazdasági Egyetem, PSZK-CESIBUS, 1149. Budapest, Buzogány utca 10-12., Hungary koche@sze.hu In railway construction practice, we are increasingly faced with the problem of having to pass our new lines through areas with unfavorable subsoil conditions or with the need to rein...

In our research we focused on the emergence of circularity in the fashion industry, looking at the business model from the perspective of consumer acceptance. In our study, we reviewed the role of the circular economy model among sustainable business models and the regulatory issues. In our primary research, we used an action research method to inv...

Sustainable business models can help us move beyond the current consumer society and integrate sustainability into our lifestyles. The COVID-19 crisis was a strong test of sustainability for these models. In our study, we assessed which business models are highly dependent on the economic cycle and are highly embedded in consumer society. We conduc...

Research background: Isenberg created a broader, conceptual model and comprehensive framework for analyzing this system which he calls the self-sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem. His well-known model covers six domains (namely policy, finance, market, culture, human capital and the supports) and a dynamism among them that represents a novel and...

A huge set of sustainable business models have emerged during recent decades to promote decarbonization, but the drivers of their consumer adoption remain somewhat unclear. This paper examines these drivers based on a sample of 622 university students during the second wave of COVID-19 at the end of 2020. Our research links business models to the t...

This commentary summarizes the main research on decoupling, highlighting studies about the relationship between GDP and material use and stock accumulation. On this basis, Daly's conclusion that further research is needed seems well founded, as there are still many open questions in this area. Keywords: dematerialization, GDP, decoupling

The growing concentration of people and wealth often results in imbalances of resource consumption and carrying capacity, therefore, the sustainability assessment of urbanization can offer an important basis for global sustainable transition. This paper aims to provide an analysis of the environmental sustainability of urbanization in Hungary focus...

A városi lakosság számának és arányának növekedése, a városok szétterjedése komoly kihívások elé állítják a jelen és a jövő generációit. A városi zöldterületek megőrzése, gazdasági, környezeti és humánegészségügyi szempontból is meghatározó jelentőségű. Az építőipar nagyon jelentős erőforrás felhasználással, környezetterheléssel járó iparág de a vá...

Az építés és építőipar egyik legjelentősebb természeti erőforrás-fogyasztó és jelentős mennyiségű széndioxid (CO2) kibocsátásért felelős (Kumar és mtsai., 2021), valamint az egyik legnagyobb anyagáramot jelentő emberi tevékenység. Kutatásunk célja annak meghatározása, hogy az építőiparban mekkora környezeti hatás kerülhető el innovatív, környezetba...

The regulatory environment for both sustainability and financial reporting is changing as standardisation and digital reporting (e.g., XBRL) are gaining traction within regulators. The measurement methodology and mandatory information content of disclosures are yet to be decided for corporate CO2 reporting by EU regulators and standard-setting orga...

The aim of this study is to examine the factors influencing the electricity consumption of urban households and to prove these with statistically significant results. The study includes 46 small and medium-sized towns in Hungary. The methodology of the study is mainly provided by a model that can be used for this purpose; however, the results obtai...

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a significant role in the national economies of the EU member states. This economic activity has an inevitable environmental impact; however, environmental performance indicators are mostly measured at larger companies. Since the ecological footprint (EF) is a suitable measure of unsustainability, thi...

Scientific and social discourse examines primarily the environmental performance of large enterprise actors. Although these large enterprises usually operate on an international level, over half of the added value created in the European Union and thus over half of the environmental damage are generated by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME)....

In this paper we present a complex Ecological Footprint (EF) analysis of one of the largest metropolitan regions in post-socialist East Central Europe, the Budapest Metropolitan Region. Our overall goal is to use both top-down and bottom-up approaches and measure the changes of footprint at a metropolitan scale between 2003 and 2013. Our specific o...

Car-shar­ing com­pan­ies’ key ar­gu­ment is the heav­ily ad­vert­ised sus­tain­ab­il­ity ele­ment in their op­er­a­tion, which can par­tially be con­firmed; however, this study sheds light on the im­port­ance of the con­nec­tion between sus­tain­ab­il­ity re­ports and fin­an­cial state­ments. In order to gain more con­fid­ence and provide ob­ject­i...

This study examines the expansion of a German free-float car-sharing company in Hungary from financial and sustainability perspectives. BMW and Daimler recently created the joint ventures ShareNow, ChargeNow, ReachNow, FreeNow, and ParkNow, which are having a significant global impact, as their services are now available in 14 different countries....

The main aim of this paper is to analyse the environmental impacts of the transformation of the Budapest Metropolitan Region through the ecological footprint indicator, between 2003 and 2013. Similarly to other major urban agglomerations in East Central Europe, the socio-spatial structure of the Budapest Metropolitan Region has gone through substan...

A tudományos és társadalmi diskurzus elsősorban a nagyvállalati szereplők környezeti teljesítményére irányul. Habár ezek a vállalatok rendszerint több országban tevékenykednek, az Európai Unióban létrehozott hozzáadott érték, valamint ebből kifolyólag a környezetkárosítás több, mint felét a kis- és középvállalkozások tevékenységéhez kapcsolható. Ug...

“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” was agreed upon in 2015 by the global community and proposes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for the period between 2015 and 2030. Since the greater integration of goals was an explicit claim, there are numerous overlaps among them. One of the novelties of the SDGs is that...

A nemzetközi közösség 2015-ben elfogadta a „Fenntartható Fejlődési Keretrendszer 2030 – Agenda 2030” című, a 2015 és 2030 közötti időszakra vonatkozó programot, mely 17 fenntartható fejlődési célt (Sustainable Development Goals, SDG) fogalmaz meg. A célok kidolgozásakor explicit igényként jelentkezett azok integrációja, ezáltal az egyes célok közöt...

The Ecological Footprint (EF) has become a very popular alternative indicator of development in the last three decades. It can be widely used to show the unsustainability of total and individual levels of consumption in countries. But can EF be a meaningful indicator at the micro level as well? This paper presents an argument on this issue. Based o...

The main aim of this paper is to explore how daily commuting has contributed to the changes of ecological footprint in the Buda-pest urban region since 1990 by using census data of 1990, 2001 and 2011. First, the func-tional urban region of Budapest was delim-ited using the 15% threshold of daily com-muting to work to Budapest in 2001. Accord-ing t...

As a yield of efforts in the international climate policy and emerging consumer awareness there is a growing interest for the quantification of corporate level carbon footprints. As a consequence, there have been numerous initiatives, guidelines and calculation methods emerged recently to be able to quantify company level direct and indirect greenh...

The ecological price of economic growth is a heavily debated issue, where ideologies often neglect factual information. In this paper, through the relationship of the ecological footprint and GDP, we examine the tendencies of eco-efficiency in the first decade of the 21st century. We conclude that the average ecological footprint intensity of count...

Az ökolábnyom az elmúlt évtizedek során egy érdekes tudományos kezdeményezésből az egyik legígéretesebb alternatív makrogazdasági mérőszámmá vált. Elismertségét világhírű, Nobel-díjas tudósok (Stiglitz, Sen, Fitoussi) munkái és kontinenseken átívelő politikai kampányok (TEN-in-TEN) is jelzik. Számos ország, többek közt az Egyesült Arab Emírségek és...

he target of our study is to examine the possibilities as well as the limitations of the application alternative composite indicators. Our study focuses on what kind of relations the indicators are in; to what extent they can substitute the GDP and what kind of morals can be indicated for Hungary. The basic question of our research is how p...

In our study we wanted to find an answer to the question whether we can find sustainable countries if we compare the values of different composite indicators? The target of our study is to examine the possibilities as well as the limits of the application alternative composite indicators. Our study focuses on what kind of relations the indicators a...

In our study we are summarising our research on the time and location related processes of the increasingly popular index called the ecological footprint. Our aim is to present a snapshot that shows both the timeline of countries' path and the location they got to. The " path " is going to be presented on a temporal scale starting from the 1960's,...

Adatgyűjtésünk során olyan interneten elérhető, ingyenes játékokat kerestünk, melyek fontos szerepet tölthetnek be a gyermekek környezeti nevelésében. Az informatika, az internethasználat elterjedése a gyermekek körében lehetővé teszi, hogy online játékokkal biztosítsunk számukra a fenntartható fejlődés alapelveinek elsajátítását. Gyűjteményünk 50...

The appreciation of ecological footprint has been increasing since the study by Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi’ [Stiglitz et al. 2009]. At the same time, owing to the methodological and standardization problems as well as the shortcomings of data collection, its accuracy can be questioned. In our study, we were looking for countries with a significantl...

The authors of this paper identified several online games, available over the Internet for free, which can be instrumental in children's environmental education. Taking advantage of widely spread use of information and communication technologies and the Internet, we can ensure that children get acquainted with the principles of sustainable developm...

A tanulmány első része áttekintést ad a nemzetgazdasági elszámolási rendszer problémáiról és a velük kapcsolatos reformtörekvésekről, a kialakított alternatív mutatók köréről. A második részben négy mutató, az ökológiai lábnyom, a Boldog Bolygó Index, az Emberi Fejlődés Indexe és a Környezeti Teljesítmény Index alapján határozzuk meg Magyarország h...

The current financial crisis has a classic three-dimensional structure of responsibility. Creditor banks must ensure the money supply, aggregate demand for loans to households in debt, and monetary authorities (supervisors, governments). We consider it essential that the auditors' and any operator's responsibility extend not only to the economics o...

We contrasted the land-structure of Romania and Hungary according to the number of economies/ farms and according to the size of the land. In our further survey we examined the division of the land also according to size of the land and according to faming form. The source of the data regarding the land-structure in case of Romania is the following...

The solving and improving the problem of financing agriculture is one of the most important questions. The agriculture has many specialties compare to other sectors of national economy. In case of agriculture, the payback period is longer compare to industrial sector. That is why the capital prefers to flow to industry and commerce. The rate of cre...

A new dimension of the study of the social economic processes is getting more and more into the highlight, namely their regional effect. All the eras of the development history are generally featured by the unequal regional development. In Hungary and in Romania as well the regional differences in the development have deep roots in the economic his...