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Since Humboldt, landscape is a core concept within geographical research. From the 19th century onwards, the main aim of landscape studies from a geographical perspective was to investigate holistically the interactions between the factors that shape the landscape. From the end of the 19th century to the present day, Hungarian-language geographical...
There are two main branches of geography at the international level and in Hungary: human and physical geography, but the relationship between these two differs significantly in different regions. Physical geography tends to use the methods adopted and applied in the natural sciences, while human geography is increasingly connected to (other) socia...
Urban marketing with culture-led urban development has a growing importance for contemporary cities. In a global competition, cities must stand out and attract tourism, investment, and cultural activities. Consequently, their image should be constantly improved. City branding provides strategies for enhancing a city's public image – thus, becoming...
The sustainability of healthcare systems is challenged by the international migration of health workers in many countries. Like other Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, a great number of health professionals from Hungary have emigrated recently, increasing the shortage of health workers in the country. The aim of this study is to explore...
Even though tourism (both domestic and international) is one of the main triggering factors of human mobility worldwide, some of its forms are unexplored. This can be partly linked with the lack of reliable data and obstacles related to data processing and interpretation. Mobile Positioning Data (MPD) allows us to identify various forms of tourism...
The persistence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus imposed vaccination passports for traveling in most countries. We investigated psychological factors that predict the intention to vaccinate for travel. In a cross-sectional study, we examined how demographic variables, vaccination status, perceived risk of infection and severity of disease contracted at trav...
One of the main consequences of the neoliberalization of scientific life is the growing demand for measurement and comparability of scientific achievements, not only by the academia but also by society as a financier and the economy as a customer. Thus, more and more attention is being paid to journal rankings created by prestigious (and generally...
Ingyenesen letölthető: https://www.nemzetiatlasz.hu/MNA/MNA_3_12_1.pdf
Az életminőség korábban bemutatott aspektusai kisebb-nagyobb mértékben az egyénekhez kapcsolódtak – azaz a legtöbb esetben olyan tényezőkről volt szó, amelyeket az embereknek (legalábbis elméletileg) módjukban áll megváltoztatniuk. Azonban számos olyan külső tényező is hat az életkörülményekre, amelyeket az egyén nem vagy csak közvetetten tud befol...
The full chapter is available the following link: https://www.nemzetiatlasz.hu/MNA/National-Atlas-of-Hungary_Vol3_Ch12_1.pdf
The aspects of quality of life presented in previous chapters are largely related to individuals. Thus, in most cases, people could – at least in theory – change those factors. Living conditions are, however, affected by several external factors that individuals cannot influence or can influence only indirectly. These include the state of the natur...
Open access at: https://www.nemzetiatlasz.hu/MNA/National-Atlas-of-Hungary_Vol3_Ch6_7.pdf
Subchapters:
Studying social stratification
Trends in Hungary
Social groups in favourable or improving conditions
Poverty and disadvantageous conditions
Responses in development policy
The shortage and uneven geographic distribution of health workers is considered a severe global problem nowadays. Recent studies examining inequalities in health workforce supply at various spatial scales suggest that health workers’ geographic distribution follows a core-periphery pattern as the more developed areas are generally better supplied w...
Ingyenesen letölthető: https://www.nemzetiatlasz.hu/MNA/MNA_3_6_7.pdf
Alfejezetek:
A társadalom tagozódásának vizsgálata
Magyarországi folyamatok
Kedvező, illetve javuló helyzetű társadalmi csoportok
Szegénység és hátrányos helyzet
Fejlesztéspolitikai válaszok
There are places where history is still alive: heritage sites, locations of great cultural, scientific, educational, and social significance. The military presence in the city of Oradea, Romania, generated an impressive cultural-historical heritage, both tangible and intangible, as the consequence of centuries of alternative militarization and demi...
The migration of health care professionals has significant effects on the health care provision of the source countries. Thus it is an important policy issue and highly debated topic in political and everyday discourses. Understanding the motivations of migrants is a crucial task, since it can contribute towards the design of efficient health care...
The COVID-19 pandemic, emerging at the end of 2019, hit hard countries all over the world – including Central Europe. Nevertheless, both infection rates and fatalities have significant spatial differences. The aim of this paper is to reveal the spatial patterns of COVID-19 in Central Europe on various spatial scales. During the first wave in the sp...
Several researches highlighted the outstanding importance of security and trust in tourism. Natural disasters, pandemics, political turmoil, all have their influence on trust and security in tourism. As the experiences of the last decades show, pandemics have significant and immediate negative effects on travel decisions. The COVID-19 pandemic and...
Romania is one of the countries severely affected by numerous natural hazards, where landslides constitute a very common geomorphic hazard with strong economic and social impacts. The analysed area, known as the "Ciuperca Hill", is located in Oradea (NW part of Romania) and it has experienced a number of landsliding events in previous years, which...
This article investigates the interconnectedness between neighbourhood diversity and local business structures. For this purpose, interviews with residents and entrepreneurs were conducted in three European cities: Budapest, Copenhagen, and Milan. The results show that diversity in the economic structure of urban neighbourhoods is equally important...
Spatial and temporal distribution of voter turnout can be an appropriate indicator of socio-demographic processes. Since elections are held more frequently than national censuses, their results may refine our picture of the temporal changes of the population. Due to the evolution of statistical applications and queries, gathering data on smaller ge...
The Fortress of Oradea is one the most representative in Transylvania, which strongly influenced the socio-economic development of the city, in the same time turning the settlement into a cultural and multiethnic center, with impacts on the architecture of the city. The main aim of the paper is to explain the importance of the cultural, historical,...
COVID-19 pandemic starting at the end of 2019, hit hard tourism and hospitality industries throughout the world. As a part of the processes, the most popular P2P accommodation service, the Airbnb also faced a rapid drop in bookings. This study explores and compares the effects of the first wave of the pandemic on the Airbnb markets of 15 cities. Th...
Political polarization is one of the most often analysed topics in contemporary political geography. Polarization means the increasing distance between ideologies, parties and voters. It is not only a social process but has a significant spatial relevance as well. Our analysis aims to present the Hungarian political polarization processes through t...
Airbnb has grown very rapidly over the last decade and became a valid and important competitor of traditional accommodation providers. This growing importance calls for better understanding of the motivational factors of tourists’ and identifying why they choose Airbnb instead of other types of accommodations. Therefore, the purpose of the paper wa...
The aim of the paper was to investigate the impact of different accommodation attributes on Airbnb listing prices in a touristic area. The study applied hedonic price modeling utilizing a sample of 2417 Airbnb accommodation rental offers in the Lake Balaton Touristic Region in Hungary. Our results revealed that property-related attributes significa...
The migration of health workers is a global phenomenon with considerable impact on health care systems, which issue became a policy concern in Hungary after the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union in 2000s and early 2010s. The main aim of this paper is to reveal the migration intentions and motives of Hungarian medical students and health pro...
The aim of the paper was to investigate the impact of different accommodation attributes on Airbnb listing prices in a touristic area. The study applied hedonic price modeling utilizing a sample of 2417 Airbnb accommodation rental offers in the Lake Balaton Touristic Region in Hungary. Our results revealed that property-related attributes significa...
Az elmúlt évtizedben a peer-to-peer elven működő online szállásmegosztó platformok (pl. Airbnb, HomeAway stb.) a turizmus egyik legfontosabb szereplőjévé váltak komoly versenytársat teremtve a hagyományos szállásadó szektornak. Ennek következtében az online szállásmegosztó platformokon hirdetett szállások árképzésének megértése mind gyakorlati, min...
Environmental justice is a normative framework for the analysis of environmental impacts on the wellbeing of individuals and social groups. According to the framework, the deprived social groups and ethnic minorities are often more exposed to environmental risks and hazards due to their disadvantaged situation, and due to the lack of representation...
The changing geo-political world of the 19th century had many socio-economic consequences in Central-Eastern Europe that resulted in alternative militarization and demilitarization processes. In the city of Oradea, Romania, most of the built historic environment successfully survived over the last several centuries, its existence and reuse maintain...
The changing geo-political world of the 19th century had many socio-economic consequences in Central-Eastern Europe that resulted in alternative militarization and demilitarization processes. In the city of Oradea, Romania, most of the built historic environment successfully survived over the last several centuries, its existence and reuse maintain...
The aim of the paper was to investigate the impact of different accommodation attributes on Airbnb listing prices in a touristic area. The study applied hedonic price modeling utilizing a sample of 2417 Airbnb accommodation rental offers in the Lake Balaton Touristic Region in Hungary. Our results revealed that property-related attributes significa...
Bevezetés Napjainkban emberek tízezrei döntenek úgy, hogy nem a hagyományos szállásadásban száll-nak meg, hanem ismeretlenek lakóhelyét veszik igénybe, amit P2P elven működő online meg-osztó platformokon (pl. Airbnb, Couchsurfing, HomeAway) találnak. Ez a jelenség egy sokkal nagyobb gazdasági-technológia jelenség az ún. sharing economy vagy közössé...
These days thousands of people decide to stay in homes of unknown people rather than using traditional accommodation facilities. They choose their accommodation on online sharing platforms operating on peer-to-peer (P2P) principle (e.g.: Airbnb, Couchsurfing, HomeAway). This trend is part of a much greater economic and technological phenomenon, kno...
Naponta emberek tízezrei döntenek úgy, hogy nem a hagyományos, hanem a peer-to-peer (P2P) elven működő online szállásmegosztó platformokon – ilyen például az Airbnb – ismeretlenek által meghirdetett szálláshelyeken szállnak meg. Ez a folyamat napjainkban még döntően nagyvárosi jelenség, azonban egyre inkább teret nyer a jelentős turisztikai potenci...
There are considerable regional inequalities in the human resource supply of health care systems, which situation is further compounded by the intra-and international migration of health workers. Recent studies on the migration of health workers have examined this phenomenon mostly by conducting macro-scale analyses, using mainly statistical method...
Napjainkban egyre nagyobb teret hódít a közösségi gazdaság (sharing economy), amely az internet és az infokommunikációs technológiák által kínált lehetőségek révén megváltoztatja a fogyasztási szokásokat, és a "normál" piaci logikától eltérő működésének köszönhetően számos területen hat a fogyasztási szerkezetre, az árakra, és egyre jelentősebb kih...
The migration of health care professionals is one of the most discussed topics within the scientific literature on international migration. The results of researches often depend on the level of analysis and the focus of the approaches. Thus, it is important to gain information on the various theories of migration – this makes possible to reveal th...
Due to the development of information and communication technologies (ICTs), the so-called sharing economy spread rapidly to new sectors. The principle of sharing economy is that users can share their idle resources with each other. One of the most well-known manifestation of sharing economy is Airbnb, which is an online platform for short-term ren...
The migration of health care professionals has widespread effects on Hungarian health care services. Thus, this process is a highly debated one in public and professional discourses. Our study analyses the media representation of medical brain drain: the presentation of processes and the actors involved. Furthermore, we also analyse the role of spa...
Az infokommunikációs technológiák világgazdaságra gyakorolt hatásának egyik megnyilvánulása a megosztáson alapuló, azaz a közösségi gazdaság (sharing economy) kialakulása és térnyerése. Ennek egyik jelentős piaci szereplője az Airbnb, egy olyan szállásmegosztó oldal, ami hétköznapi emberek számára is lehetővé teszi, hogy megosszák egymással kihaszn...
The aim of the paper is to reveal how the proliferation of Airbnb is
shaping hotel room and short-term accommodation rates in Budapest, which areas are most affected and whether there is any spatial concentration. We performed a manually made internet data query and applied GIS-based mapping methods to visualise the spatiality of Airbnb in Budapest...
Public spaces are contested spaces; various groups compete for their control and to (re)present themselves there to the public. The political and economic changes and global competition transformed the mechanisms of production of spaces in post-socialist countries. New interests and new actors emerged in urban development with strong influence on t...
This paper examines the methodology of favoured settlements determined by the Government Regulation 105/2015 (IV.23.), with regard to the topic of objective quality of life. The main aspect was, how these life quality indicators change the composition of the favoured settlements. First the original complex indicator had to be reconstructed, then an...
In recent years, the so-called sharing economy has spread all over the world and, through the proliferation of online peer-to-peer platforms, provides a marketplace that matches sellers who want to sell/share their underutilised assets with buyers who need them. One of the well-known and heavily debated manifestations of the sharing economy is an a...
A lakóhelyi szegregáció és térben koncentrált mélyszegénység komoly probléma a hazai városok számára. A tapasztalatok szerint mindkét jelenség halmozottan érinti az etnikai csoportokat – hazánkban a romákat. Kutatásunkkal arra a kérdésre keressük a választ, hogy hazai városi környezetben a szegregált lét az érintettek számára milyen erőforrásokat h...
In the literature studentification is closely associated with gentrification. Many authors consider the mass invasion of students to inner-city neighbourhoods as a type of gentrification, some of them even use the two terms interchangeably. Regardless of theoretical considerations, it seems that there is a consensus on the significance of studentif...
Recent trends in transport and communication infrastructures have had a profound impact on the tourism industry. Despite the growing number and importance of online travel agencies and travel metasearch sites tourism literature addressing this issue is very scarce. Th is paper aims to examine the temporal changes of return airfares on online travel...
Due to the development of ICT technologies the so-called sharing economy has spread all over the world, gaining significant market share in certain sectors. One of the well-known and debated manifestations of sharing economy is Airbnb, which is an online platform for accommodation provision. Airbnb has wide-spreading effects on rental and real esta...
This book is one of the outcomes of the DIVERCITIES project. It focuses on the question
of how to create social cohesion, social mobility and economic performance in today’s hyperdiversified cities. The project’s central hypothesis is that urban diversity is an asset; it can
inspire creativity, innovation and make cities more liveable and harmoni...
This study reports the findings of a research that compared the lowest airfares of full-service network carriers and low-cost airlines and mapped the cost distance between Budapest and European cities. The study investigated return air tickets for three time periods in 48 European cities for travellers who originated from Budapest. The study was ba...
Public spaces are spaces for representation of individuals, social groups, ideologies, values, cultures. At the same time, public spaces are commodifi ed and "disneyfied" in capitalism, thus, the creation of a homogeneous, "desirable" spatial form and use of public space is often intended. Therefore, their production is characterised by constant ri...
A 20. század második felétől a közlekedési és infokommunikációs technológiák fejlődése jelentős mértékben átalakította az emberek mobilitásának, az áruk szállításának és az információ áramlásának földrajzi és időbeli korlátait, elősegítve ezzel a városok térkapcsolatainak egyre komplexebbé válását. Kutatásunkban egyrészt a diszkont és a hagyományos...
The so-called brain drain is a long-standing phenomenon: the best-known example is the migration of skilled professionals from the countries of the Global South to ones in the Global North. The changes in regimes in 1989–90, plus the liberalisation of borders created an entirely new situation with regard to migration in Central Europe and a new dim...
This paper examines the temporal changes of return airfares on online travel agency (OTA) and travel metasearch websites from Budapest to three short-haul destinations (London, Paris, Barcelona) for fixed departure dates in high and shoulder season. During the study, we created a database containing more than 31 000 ticket prices over a 182 day per...
Recent trends in transport and communication infrastructures have had a profound impact on
the spatial organization of the world city network, which have long been of interest to
geographers. Considering the former issue, our study is based on previous works on air
transport geography and world city network studies. We introduce a new method to map...
Environmental justice and injustice are two interrelated concepts that help us to understand and describe the environmental elements of the quality of life of individuals and communities. Our study aims to overview the concept of environmental injustice and to present how geoinformatics can contribute to the analysis of environmentally unjust situa...
The extreme weather conditions caused by the climate change have strong impact on the everyday life of people. This study aims to analyse the changes in the life quality of those who live in the villages and towns affected by the 2001 floods in north-east Hungary. The study is based on statistical data and a survey conducted in nine settlements of...
This paper deals with the process of brain drain in Hungary and the possibilities of return migration. After the EU accession brain drain generated a mass out-migration of skilled labour (especially the well-educated segment of the labour-force) to the West. Our primary aim is to investigate the main features of out-migration versus remigration and...
The following contents refer to studies which were established in the framework of the ReTurn Project. The ReTurn Project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme Co-fi nanced by ERDF (European Regional Development Fund). Die Reihe forum ifl des Leibniz-Instituts für Länderkunde dient der zeitnahen Publikation von Erkenntnissen aus Forsc...
In the last decades the globalisation and the growing competition affected significantly the development of different countries, regions and cities. Because of the importance of competitiveness the neoliberal principles transformed urban policy almost in every country. The postsocialist cities experienced new conflicts related to this process: the...
The aim of this study is to examine the spatial aspects of the extreme social differences and the so-called "beggars regulation" in the cities. In 2005 the city council of Szeged banned the beggars out of the city centre. We applied data from the program called "Szeged Studies", and, using a questionnaire, we made a focal group survey in one of the...
The quality of life (QoL) is one of the most important topics of recent urban policy. It is especially important in the case of the development of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods. These neighborhoods and their problems need to be identified. Because of this it is important to have proper information about the spatial differences of QoL – based...
