Dezso Kovacs

• PhD
• Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Ünnepi tanulmánykötet Kulcsár László professzor 75. születésnapja tiszteletére

The transformation of wine regions is one of the few success stories in the Hungarian countryside since the political changes in 1989-90. This paper explores the features of the transformation process in the Villány wine region. Within two decades the region has gone through fi ve developmental stages, from mass production to a genuine rural experi...

The Danube Region, perhaps the most complicated formation of the European continent, is based on physical geographical factors (the Danube, the river’s catchment area). The catchment area as a physical geographical framework forms a kind of water use and pollution unit, a focus, and through man-made transformation, it partially represents a kind of...

An important factor in the development of Hungarian co-operatives has been the gradual change in the qualifications and managerial style of the co-operative managers through generational replacement. The paper contrasts the systems for electing managers and traces the evolution of management through four snapshots in time: 1968, 1977, 1986 and 1990...

This paper is intended to promote further discussion and reflection on the agenda of the FAO Working Party for Women (WPW) Expert Meeting on Gender and Rural Development in Krakow in 2005, as well as among other interested parties. The paper focuses on the role of rural women and the family, questions of gender in employment and entrepreneurship an...

The changes in eastern and central Europe in 1989 and 1990 are pivotal in modern history. The emerging democratic systems in this region provide unique opportunities for the study of the geography of European-style national parliamentary elections in countries after a hiatus of over four decades. One of the best examples of the immediate emergence...

Political distribution created by the 1990 parliamentary elections can be visualized in spatial and settlement dimensions as well. For the first sight, our short description on the spatial aspects of differences is a hind of immaginative political photo album, which facilitates us to follow up the changes on the first shot. The election results sho...