Emőke Kiss

• PhD
• Research fellow at University of Debrecen

The focus of our paper is to present the power of collaboration of databases in a web environment, where data contain or are related to different types of social geography spatial data. Implementing different data gained from the Climate Change Laws of the World, the United Nations Treaty Collection, the World Bank and The World Factbook, we oursel...

This article discusses one of the most important social factors of climate protection: climate concern. Most research in this area focuses on North America and Western Europe or presents international comparative statistics. Our work is innovative because we have designated a lesser-known post-socialist region in East-Central Europe as a sample are...

The effects of climate change are wideranging and exacerbate existing environmental and social challenges. The Climate Change Strategies of the World’s Countries geodatabase, developed for the present study, comprises national-level data on the climate change-related documents of 199 countries worldwide, which were grouped into types according to t...

Observing reactions and responses to climate change worldwide, we think climate policies cannot exert their impact sufficiently. Consequently, studying the climate policy paradigms (CPPs) shaped by the dominant environmental ideas and climate objectives is essential. This paper analyses the CPPs in the Visegrad Countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, P...

Sewer networks are essential in supporting the sustainable development of rural settlements. However, many municipalities face difficulties due to inadequate or missing sanitation systems. Thus, the contamination of municipal water supplies has become a pressing issue. In the present study, the process of the sewer network establishment and its imp...

Angling tourism is becoming increasingly important at Central Europe’s largest lowland reservoir, Lake Tisza. The lake, created in the 1970s, covers 127 km2 and has been increasingly used for recreational and nature conservation purposes recently. This study seeks to identify anglers’ site selection preferences at Lake Tisza, considering hydrologic...

Lake Tisza is a lowland reservoir with an area of 127 km2 in the middle of the Carpathian Basin established in the 1970s. Among its original functions, in addition to flood control, it was expected to irrigate a larger agricultural area and increase water freight transport. Today, buffering of extreme water conditions, nature conservation and recre...

The severe contamination of groundwater supplies in rural areas is a global problem that requires strict environmental measures. Related to this, one of the most important challenges at present is the elimination of local sources of pollution. Therefore, this research examined the local water quality changes following the construction of the sewera...

Over the last decades, as a consequence of wastewater discharges and other anthropogenic sources, severe nitrate (NO3⁻) pollution has developed in municipal environment causing global concern. Thus, eliminating the potential sources of pollution is one of the major challenges of the twenty-first century, whereby sanitation services are essential fo...

A települések talajvízkészletének elszennyeződése globális jelenség, melynek csökkentéséhez számos környezetvédelmi intézkedés szükséges. Tanulmányunkban települési környezetben 2013-2022 között hosszú távú monitoring keretében vizsgáltuk a szennyvízcsatorna hálózat kiépítését követő talajvízszint és vízminőség változásokat, mely során 40 település...

The increasing number of visitors and conflicts resulting from shared use in valorising sensitive wetlands make effective visitor and site management measures essential. In the course of this research, the landscape pattern, the current spatial distribution of tourist activities and the possible arrangement of expedient further development were exa...

Attila Kerényi, Professor of Geography, was born in 1943 in Sátoraljaújhely. He earned a degree as a teacher of Geography and Biology in 1967. During the 1980s, he gained national and international scientific recognition for his research on soil erosion processes, and completed his candidate dissertation in 1984. In the 1990s, he became nationally...

The evaluation, visualization of environmental data from long-term monitoring, and making them accessible in a processed form in user-friendly interfaces on the Internet are important tasks of our time. The pollution of groundwater resources in settlements is a global phenomenon, the mitigation of which requires a number of environmental measures....

Outdoor recreation has grown rapidly in recent years, with an increasing preference for areas in good ecological condition. Since lakes represent some of the most important wetlands, providing a wide variety of ecosystem services, they have become a very popular destination. The present study aimed to assess the water quality of the largest artific...

Septic tanks without proper construction and insulation entail a significant risk to the environment. In this study, the environmental impacts of a permeably designed septic tank on shallow groundwater contamination are investigated, and changes in water quality in the period after its elimination in 2014 are assessed. For the purpose of evaluating...

A klímaváltozás kihívásaival összefüggésben a klímaaggodalmak kérdésköre is előtérbe került. A közép-kelet-európai településekre és azok társadalmaira vonatkozóan egyelőre viszonylag kevés információ áll rendelkezésre a szakirodalomban. A szerzők úgy vélik, hogy a klímaaggodalmak mélyreható lokális vizsgálata időszerű és hiánypótló, különösen az ol...

The provision of webGIS-based water quality data services has become a priority area for both the public and administrative sectors in the context of the pandemic emergency associated with the global spread of COVID-19. Current geographic, monitoring and decision supporting systems, typically based on web-based geospatial information, greatly facil...

In this study, the word association method was applied in relation to municipalities in Eastern Hungary (Hajdú-Bihar county), where Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP) already exists, and where SECAP has not been introduced yet. In addition, to the six municipalities examined, Debrecen, a county seat with SECAP, was also included in...

One of the main sources of contaminants in the soil is industrial activity which has become one of the major environmental problems of the last few decades. The development of geoinformatics as well as the introduction of standards and regulations has led to a decreased risk of soil contamination and the cost-effective optimization of remediation a...

A tanulmány szóasszociációs vizsgálatot alkalmaz Kelet-Magyarország (Hajdú-Bihar megye) két településcsoportjában (3-3 kiválasztott községben), egyrészt a Fenntartható Energia- és Klímaakciótervvel (Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan – SECAP) már rendelkező, másrészt az azzal még nem rendelkező településeken. 2020. évi felmérésükbe az említ...

The appearance of online map services and frameworks (e.g., KML, QGIS) has increased the possibilities to easily, quickly and-in many cases-cost-effectively publish spatial data stored in databases. The aim of this study is to present the geovisualization of spatial databases of a Hungarian settlement on the web, using the open source webGIS system...

Because of the increased demand for information, the scientific community have published their results on the Internet over the last 20 years, adapting to society requirements. Due to the development of web-based spatial information soil systems, access to data on various themes and of varying quality has become substantially easier. The focus of o...

A country’s economic situation, its political establishment, and the prevailing environmental conditions have a significant impact on the institutional system required for efficient environmental protection measures. During our work, we reviewed the institutional changes and legislation regarding environmental protection which have occurred over th...

From the standpoint of climate change, forests have a strategic function. They play an important role in achieving mitigation goals since they bind CO2. They also contribute to adaptation since they have water-absorbing and erosion-mitigating effects and help to establish a favorable microclimate. Using wood as biomass, fossil fuels can also be rep...

The quantity, the compound, and the ratio of recycling of waste generation’s trend are strongly influenced by technological development and limited natural resources in the long term, and by market and legal regulatory conditions in the short term. This has been well-demonstrated by the changes happened after the turn of the millennium in Hungary....