Imre Nagy

• PhD, Candidate of geography/Hungary
• Professor Emeritus at University of Agriculture and Life Sciences Budapest/Godollo/Hungary University of Novi Sad

Household metabolism evaluation is an important concept for urban development because it helps in resource efficiency transition. This research is intended to map the current household metabolism literature to discover and highlight the obstacles to household expenditures in terms of food consumption and waste produced, as well as the environmental...

Urbanization is a global problem but is more pronounced in developing countries. Population growth in developing countries is in line with population movement from rural to urban areas due to easy access to jobs, welfare, and the economy. Indirectly, urbanization will burden urban areas in various vital sectors and contribute directly to waste gene...

Purpose: Urban sprawl can cause an increase in economic development, and as a result, it is followed by increased consumption of energy, waste generation, urbanization, and reduced green land. In this sense, the current study aims to investigate the impacts of urban sprawl on environmental pollution, in terms of CO2 emissions, while considering oth...

Urban sprawl is known to have a negative impact on the environment and is considered one of the main challenges in urban development. The current work aims to understand the spatio-temporal characteristics of urban growth and its environmental impact in the city of Amman. The paper's empirical method relies on NDVI, NDBI, and LST calculated using r...

Cities urgently need effective policies and plans for strategic urban development that can slow down uncontrolled urban growth. Due to the implementation of numerous sustainable urban development policies throughout the Middle East over the past twenty years, sustainable urbanization is now more widely acknowledged. Some of these policies and metho...

The purpose of this research is to understand the current state of Amman city research on urban sprawl environmental impacts and their relationships to urban sustainability, with a focus on several indicators and drivers into a multi-level perspective of urban sprawl monitoring and management. We demonstrate how Amman addresses urban sprawl. The en...

Municipal waste management is still a significant problem for solid waste issues in Indonesia. Only 60 to 70% of the waste generated is disposed of in landfills, the rest is dispersed in different areas. The potential for leachate pollution, greenhouse gases, and a waste of non-renewable natural resources can occur due to municipal waste management...

The sustainability of agriculture is a crucial perspective for many societal parts today. Sustainable agriculture takes into account ways to lessen the effect of climate change in both branches of the agricultural sector, both environmentally and economically, starting with the farming tools or practices that all farmers use in the farm production...

A tanulmány az idegenforgalom növekvő szerepét és hatását kívánja bemutatni a Vajdaság vidéki tereinek, perifériáinak és belső perifériáinak fejlődésében, a helyi erőforrásokra támaszkodva, de alkalmazva a legújabb idegenforgalmi technikákat, módszereket. A turizmusfejlesztés hatásaként bekövetkező vidékfejlesztés céljaként megfogalmazódik a szegén...

A szerbiai Újvidék azon kevés európai városok egyike, amely a 20. század egyébként eseménytelen második felében drámai folyamatokkal terhelve lépett a 21. századba. A középső őskőkorszak (paleolitikum) óta tartó folyamatos fejlődés után a 19. századi kistelepülés a Duna menti bánság, majd a II. világháború után a tartományi közigazgatás, illetve a...

Mapping and monitoring of land use land cover (LULC) changes in Amman city are important for sustainable regional development, urban planning, and environmental and land use management. To comprehend the temporal and the spatial variability of LULC change, six time-period satellite images of the study area have been examined based on remote sensing...

This paper mainly aims to provide an overview of the waste-to-energy project, including the current status, challenges, future vision, and overall project benefits, to show how Amman City has made a reasonably successful step toward implementing waste-to-energy technologies for urban sustainability and resource efficiency. This research is an obser...

It is important to achieve sustainability through the management of the urban environment to maintain what is unsustainable due to urbanization and urban development so as to manage the urban suburbs through consumer behavior. In recent years, with population growth, population mobility, and urbanization, urban sprawl has become a real issue. Urban...

The Surabaya River is a tributary downstream of the Brantas River, which is the longest river in East Java. The source of raw water for the city of Surabaya comes from the Surabaya River. Currently, the pollutants in the Surabaya River are not only organic and heavy metals but also microplastics. This study aims to identify the microplastic content...

Analyze the trends that characterize scientific production through textual statistics and text mining methods, highlighting the most debated topics useful for developing new research perspectives in this field. Textual statistics and text mining methods were chosen to analyse the real scope of integrated waste management, focus the investigation on...

The circular economy (CE) is a multidisciplinary approach focused on achieving the sustainability of the whole society. This review aims to reveal the potential impact of the circular economy on quality of life. This systematic review analyzes studies dealing with the concept of circular economy and quality of life. The methodology process included...

The waste management problem is still one of the focus areas that need to be addressed in developing countries. In order to overcome the problem, circular economy is potentially be applied, circular economy can be applied. Circular economy is an offered alternative to the traditional linear economy (make, use, dispose of). Economic actors keep reso...

En este trabajo se realiza una interpretación holística de la gestión de diferentes actores sobre dos casos de estudios, las áreas naturales transfronterizas de la triple frontera entre Croacia, Hungría y Serbia y las áreas naturales protegidas ubicadas en el embalse de Yacyretá en la frontera de Argentina y Paraguay; dada su aptitud para fomentar...

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected crowded urban cities and public meetings, while substantially paralyzing the healthcare systems worldwide due to its rapid spread. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a great challenge at the global level while putting heavy pressure on essential public services. The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed...

Researching the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina as a region of Serbia and an European Union (EU) border region, we have long been concerned with the raison d’être of cross-border programmes, their impact, sustainability and long-term results. Against that background, the current study is focused on the results of the 2014-2020 cycle. The region of...

Environmental degradation and climate change implications on urban areas and cities are a global concern. Urban environment management aims to mitigate the adverse impacts of rapid urbanization. This method identified and measured the effect of a built-in environment. The environmental management of Amman city, considering its exponential urban gro...

Environmental degradation and climate change implications on urban areas and cities are a global concern. Urban environment management aims to mitigate the adverse impacts of rapid urbanization. This method identified and measured the effect of a built-in environment. The environmental management of Amman city, considering its exponential urban gro...

Most of the countries in the region of Southeast Europe, both in their history and today, are significantly threatened by the effects of floods, landslides, earthquakes, droughts, forest fires whose effects greatly increase and the poor economic situation in these countries. Serbia is significantly exposed by natural disasters, especially to floods...

Introduction: The spread of Covid19 could be prevented by breaking the chain of transmission through the practice of wearing a mask while going outside or being in a crowd, washing hands using hand soap under running water, and doing physical distancing (3M). The difference in information distribution and access about Covid19 between rural and urba...

Background : The need for water in an area will always increase with population growth, while the water itself decreases in terms of quality, quantity, and continuity. The potential for health problems due to the microbiological quality of drinking water that does not meet the requirements is very high. This study aimed to analyze the microbial qua...

The average temperature of the world over the past 100 years has risen by 0.6°C. The rising temperature will likely present a big challenge for society and the environment in the future. The population has the ability to respond to it in a variety of ways, especially nowadays when technology is evolving daily. In order to reduce the harmful impacts...

Organic solid waste is a type of waste that has the largest amount in Indonesia. If it is not managed properly, organic solid waste can cause various problems. To overcome this problem, it is necessary to make an effort to utilize organic solid waste which also has high economic potential. One solution to this is the use of Black Soldier Fly larvae...

Sustainable agriculture is the necessary means to achieve comprehensive development because it is an important source for improving agricultural production by quantity and quality in conjunction with maintaining the natural resource base and developing the farmer's awareness in environmental and social issues to achieve the main goal of maximizing...

The paper presents the various network types between municipalities/settlements within a single project program and at the level of all other analysed border programs in EU border regions that are components of European Territorial Cooperation. It also shows examples of prosperous cross-border networks (Serbia-Hungary, Serbia-Croatia, Serbia-Romani...

Sustainable agriculture plays a vital role in the economies of both underdeveloped and developed countries. This role is more vital for agricultural countries. The first task is to achieve a state of food security for all the population through sustainable agriculture. Sustainable agriculture includes the investment of available natural resources,...

One of the key development goals of the EU regional policy is the development of the less developed regions and the enhancement of the cooperation with symmetrical cross-border regions, including the possibility of cooperation at the EU's external borders. Serbia belongs to this category, and the current cross-border cooperational contacts in the b...

Although the classification of geographical landscapes is an important field of landscape science, an accepted method concerning how to carry it out exactly does not exist. The traditional definitions of landscape types have focused on relief, natural vegetation, and landuse, though nowadays the focus has shifted increasingly to landcover, which ca...

The challenges of environmental protection is divided between various governmental institutions in Jordan such as Ministry of environment, Ministry of Irrigation, Ministry of Health, Ministry of municipalities affairs, In this study, the tasks of each ministry and its affiliated institutions were determined through the provisions of the constitutio...

The paper deals with the waste based energy potential of Hungary by analysing the change of the waste management practice and the waste statistics of the country. The paper presents detailed potential analysis for the Koppány Valley area of Hungary. While the Circular Economy (CE) concept has become a flagship programme of the European Union, Hunga...

Risk assessment and mapping methodologies for heat waves as frequently occurring hazards in central and southeastern Europe were applied in this study, and the impact of heat waves on the mortality of urban populations was determined as part of the assessment. The methodology for conducting the heat wave risk assessment is based on European Commiss...

Inland excess waters cause numerous considerable problems in economy, society and environment on a low lying parts of Serbia. The SEERISK methodology has been used for assessing the risk of inland excess water in Kanjiža municipality in Serbia. By applying the GIS tools, inland excess areas were extracted and categorization of different hazards lev...

The paper presents problems of care and the current state of the impact of medical waste on human health and the environment in the selected area of the Republic of Serbia. In general environmental pollution, medical waste does not take up much, but its specific characteristics are potentially among the most dangerous types of waste. Inadequate car...

EU funds that are available in Serbia are modest both in volume and number, since Serbia received preaccession status only in 2014. Before that, it was only a potential pre-accession country on the external border of the European Union. From the five components of IPA (2007-2013) Serbia could have utilised only the first two components in the pre-a...

The main aim of the paper is to investigate the influence of formal education level on decision-making process when choosing a tourist destination based on multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). The survey was conducted on the sample of 252 respondents from Backa region (Vojvodina/Serbia). Also, this study strives to examine the influence of e...

The paper is based on a presupposition that the protection from natural disasters is not satisfactorily developed in the legislative and, consequently, in official institutions. Local governments, therefore, still do not have plan documents which directly refer to the planning and programming of the response to climate change despite the fact that...

Climate changes alter the frequency and magnitude of a range of physical processes that often have negative consequences on life and property. Decision makers, local authorities and other end users are in need of tools and methodologies for assessing the risk of natural hazards in order to be able to design strategies for reducing it. The SEERISK p...

The investigation assessed and evaluated the soil polluting activities in 30 Romanian and Hungarian settlements in the region of the Double, Black and White Körös-Criș Rivers. Pb concentrations are mainly higher than the limit values with maximum values registered in the area of landfill and near the roads. The concentration of Cu and Zn in soils o...

The paper analyzes the awareness of the population of climatic changes and the natural disasters that are conditioned by them. The most significant source of information is empirical research conducted in 2013 and 2014 in the municipality of Kanjiža on the sample of 274 informants. The paper is based on a presupposition that the protection from nat...

The first part of the paper gives an overview of research papers on the landscape with special emphasis on the visual and environmental studies. Long-time development of visual research landscape provides a basis for a critical review pointing to the need to increase the validity of visual research, the category selection, visual perspective of a l...

Historically, urban soils were ignored for a long period in scientific research because their significance for urban population was not recognized. In time, theirs importance was recognized and scientific research of urban soils characteristics, functions, etc. has started. Urban soil classification has long history and it was in many cases differe...

Veliki bački kanal is one of the most polluted watercourses in Serbia and it is frequently the central topic of the analysis of huge ecological issues in Serbia. It was dug at the turn of the 19th century with the main purpose to drain the wetland areas in central Bačka and to enhance economic growth of the settlements that had been colonized sever...

The “Šargan – Mokra Gora” Nature Park is a touristic destination with exquisite nature features. Although tourism industry is developing, it succeeded in preserving authenticity so Nature Park is very attractive to domestic and foreign visitors. The aim of this paper is to investigate visitor satisfaction with the tourist offer of the “Šargan– Mokr...

Abstract The paper describes the characteristics of natural disasters with respect to their scope, type and socio-economic features. On the basis of the data collected in an empirical research the paper investigates the level of knowledge of the population regarding natural disasters and their readiness to face them. The main sources of information...

Veliki bački kanal is one of the most polluted watercourses in Serbia and it is frequently the central topic of the analysis of huge ecological issues in Serbia. It was dug at the turn of the 19th century with the main purpose to drain the wetland areas in central Bačka and to enhance economic growth of the settlements that had been colonized sever...

Based on studies carried out in 2011, on the impact of genetic factors on hatching and vitality of pheasant chicks and young, a strong causal relation has been confirmed between the egg shell color and certain production parameters, such as the embryonic death rate. A model was based on determining egg shell color for 420 eggs. Shell color of eggs...

Studies of fertility and real gain of deer were carried out in the hunting ground "Novi Becej" for the period from 1994. to 2012. year. Total area of this hunting ground is 28,233 ha, of which 25,210 ha is hunting and hunting - productive for roe deer is 23,856 ha. Materials and methods In 1994. by counting it was found that there were 1,317 deer i...

This paper gives an analysis of incidence and mortality from brain tumors in the population of Central Serbia during the period from 1999-2010. Using statistical methods it has been observed that mortality rates had increased for both, male and female population. The increasing trend of the incidence (new disease cases) has not been noticed. Among...

This paper deals with the short- and long-term consequences of the Yugoslav Wars on the emigration of Hungarians from Vojvodina to Hungary. We will show how the motives for emigration have changed over the last 20 years, from escape from the wars to labour migration during the economic crisis to a consciously chosen strategy of educational migratio...

This study summarizes aspects of Serbian regional policy with special focus on regions and the development of the regional institutions. The study emphasizes the importance of the issue Union. With the enactment of the new Law on Regional Development and the legal framework five NUTS 2 regions were created. The Ministry of Economy and Regional Deve...

The modern world is characterized by the interdependent processes of economic, political, technological, demographic, social and cultural changes. An effective transport system is important indicator of economic activity, an essential component of the industry competitiveness and services, and an important integration factor. The increasing usage o...

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...

This paper deals with the short- and long-term consequences of the Yugoslav Wars on the emigration of Hungarians from Vojvodina to Hungary. We will show how the motives for emigration have changed over the last 20 years, from escape from the wars to labour migration during the economic crisis to a consciously chosen strategy of educational migratio...

The paper is based upon research that consisted of a series of interviews conducted with refugees in the municipality of Temerin in Serbia, during the fall of 2011. The objective of this research was to analyze the identity of refugees and the degree of their social integration. The assumption was that dimensions of their identity may show and poin...

Veliki Bački canal (VBC) in Serbia is one of the most polluted water flows in Europe. This paper observes, statistically analyses and describes certain chemical parameters as dissolved O2, biological oxygen demand (BOD5), chemical oxigen demand (COD), suspended solids and amount of coliform bacteria, which show canal water quality during the period...

The exploration of multiple environmental impacts and changes resulted from the alteration of urban areas, and the interdisciplinary background research are the objects of urban ecology. Its tasks must be planned in co-ordination of applied sciences, so that it keeps in view, aside from the human ecological requirements of urban functional and ecol...

Veliki Bački canal (VBC) in Serbia is one of the most polluted water flows in Europe. This paper observes, statistically analyses and describes certain chemical parameters as dissolved O2, biological oxygen demand (BOD5), chemical oxigen demand (COD), suspended solids and amount of coliform bacteria, which show canal water quality during the period...

The paper defines the term of the Western Balkans. It analyzes population trends and some parameters of the age structure of population. Depopulation is evident on the whole territory of West Balkan. In this paper special attention is paid to the last decade of the 20th and early 21st century, because at the time, new borders between countries in B...

Demographische Strukturen und Prozesse bilden wesentliche Voraussetzungen für die regionale Entwicklung. In diesem Aufsatz werden auf Basis von ersten empirischen Forschungsergebnissen die aktuellen ethnisch-demographischen Veränderungen im ungarisch-serbischen Grenzraum aufgezeigt. Spezielles Augenmerk gilt dabei der Vojvodina, einer Region an der...

The present paper discusses the results of a research project that aimed to determine the intensity of the use of INTERREG IIIA funds in Vojvodina, and to define its spatial differentiation on the basis of numbers of applications, and the amount of financial aid. The main objective was to define how these subsidies affect the development of local c...

| The environment policy and institutions of the Carpathian Basin are heterogenic. The environmental policy of the states strategically and according to the law suit well to the EU directives, they were made in the European law theme. The political intentions aiming at similar objectives helping the distinct improvement for a maintainable environme...

Az „emberközpontú” fenntarthatóság szemlélete szerint csak a gazdasági fejlődés bizonyos fokáig jelentkeznek a negatív hatások, és a fejlődés további szakaszaiban a technológiai előrelépésnek köszönhetően a gazdaság fejlődése nem jár majd a környezet romlásával, és növeli a társadalmi jólétet. A tapasztalatok azonban mindezidáig azt mutatják, hogy...

This study deals with a few relevant indicators that clearly and consistently illustrate degradation processes in seven borderline rural settlements of the mountainous region around Vršac. The above mentioned processes tend to affect demographic phenomena and processes as well as the economic situation, i.e. the structure and functioning of agricul...

Jelen tanulmány Szerbia regionális fejlődése egyes sajátosságainak közigazgatási (adminisztratív és statisztikai), valamint funkcionális szempontú jellemzői alapján történő bemutatására törekszik. Szerbia területi szerkezetében észlelt fejlődési egyenlőtlenségek, illetve a regionális fejlettség aránytalanságai tükrözik a népességszerkezetben jelent...

This study provides an overview of the condition and economic status of the environment after the political change in the early 1990s. Moreover, it gives information on the history of the nature and environment protection, as well as on the institutional structure regarding water quality protection and the change in the management and institutional...

A fenntartható városfejlesztésből-különös tekintettel a klímaváltozás kihívásaiból-adódó feladatok meghatározása a terület-és településfejlesztésben,-rendezésben Közép-és hosszú távú javaslatok a térségi tervezés számára 1 A klíma-és fejlesztéspolitikai elvek szintéziseként, az alábbiakban az általános terület-és településfejlesztés és rendezési (T...

The preserved parts of the nature or areas that are inteded to be protected and well-planned in terms of harmonizing the nature and tourist activities and recreation could become potential eco-tourist attractions. The Tisa meander near Čurug, the Dead Tisa, together with the fish pond 'Bečej', presents a natural, though somewhat manaffect...

The research analyzes the reasons for the immigration of intellectuals into Hungary and the circumstances related to immigrants’ adaptation. The questioned "intellectuals", who usually completed university education and only in some cases secondary school, were given a questionnaire (200 selected respondents) or were interviewed (20 selected respon...

Euroregion "Danube-Kris-Mures-Tisza" is formed both to stimulate local development and to serve as an example for cooperation to other areas in SEE. This project considers Banat as united region in three countries. Some differences which exist in separate parts of Banat (Hungary, Romania, Serbia) are less problem than this whole area that has advan...