László Kollányi

• Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Understanding the nonlinear relationship between human activity intensity (HAI) and ecosystem resilience (ER) is crucial for sustainability, yet underdeveloped areas are often overlooked. This study examines the Xuzhou Urban Agglomeration (XZUA) from 2012 to 2022, creating a framework to assess both ER and HAI. Both frameworks utilize multi-source...

Study region: Lake Dianchi, China. Study focus: Urbanization and land development increasingly challenge water quality, yet their interactions remain unclear. This study examines these interactions in Lake Dianchi by developing an empirical water quality inversion model. Multi-year water quality data from monitoring stations were integrated with La...

When reviewing the past 40 years of academic research in landscape architecture, it is perhaps worth starting with a question: what kind of activity is research and what does it actually mean? The scientific definition is "creative and systematic work undertaken in order to increase the stock of knowledge". Others say research is "a summary of step...

Urban Vitality (UV) is a critical indicator for measuring sustainable urban development and quality. It reflects the dynamic interactions and supply–demand coordination within urban systems, especially concerning the human–land relationship. This study aims to quantify the UV of Luohe City, China, for the year 2023, analyze its spatial characterist...

With urbanization, the uncertainties faced by urban areas continue to increase, and in response, China's urban planning is transitioning from a focus on quantity to quality. Promoting system coupling and coordination helps to make urban areas more resilient to risk. This paper uses data from Luohe City (China) in 2022 as an example to calculate the...

Human activities and global urbanisation have affected the integrity and continuity of ecological land, and resulted in the fragmentation of natural habitats and worldwide ecological security issues. Some ecological functions of landscape patches have been degraded or even lost. We need to study the impact of land use changes on natural habitats th...

The SaveGREEN INTERREG project aims to help conserve or improve ecological corridors through integrated planning and to raise awareness of the different types of appropriate mitigation measures. In connection with the SaveGREEN project and in the framework of the university educational program of landscape architecture students, we prepared a compl...

With rapid urban population growth and industrial agglomeration, the urban land supply is becoming gradually tight. Improving land use quality (LUQ) is becoming increasingly critical. This study was carried out in the Luohe built-up zones between 2013 and 2021. The aim is to explore the growth characteristics of LUQ and determine the association be...

A cikk Csemez Attila DSc (1945- ) Pro Régió-díjas és Mőcsényi Mihály-díjas tájépítészmérnök, városépítés-városgazdasági szakmérnök, egyetemi tanár, tanszékvezető szakmai életútját mutatja be.

The Danube-Carpathian region represents one of the most preserved natural habitats for wildlife species in Europe. It is the last European great wilderness area, a stronghold for large carnivores, and home to the large remaining reserves of old-growth forests. Achieving ecological connectivity of the area is an inevitable part of its protection. Th...

A biodiverzitás pusztulásának visszafordítása érdekében a természeti tőke növelésére van szükség. Ennek módját az EU Biodiverzitás Stratégiája a zöldinfrastruktúra fejlesztésében látja. Az országos zöldinfrastruktúra-elemek meghatározása és állapotuk értékelése, valamint a fejlesztési javaslatok kidolgozása három pilléren alapul: az ökológiai állap...

Az EU Biodiverzitás Stratégiájában szereplő zöldinfrastruktúra koncepció szerint a biodiverzitás megőrzése úgy biztosítható, ha a természetközeli élőhelyek és az egyéb, ökológiai funkciót betöltő, de nem természetközeli tájalkotó elemek (pl. telepített fasorok, gyepes mezsgyék) működő, azaz az élővilág számára átjárható élőhelyhálózattá kapcsolódna...

The ConnectGREEN international project covers research and planning institutions of 5 countries and defined as objective to preserve and define the potential ecological corridors between the core habitats of large carnivores in the Carpathian region and rehabilitate ecological corridors in in 4 pilot areas. One of the most important tool for preven...

In this paper we presented the partial results of the ConnectGREEN project, highlighting the basic and unique shortcomings and best practices of their systems. In general, all of the analysed countries express the importance of ecological networks in their policy framework. Unfortunately, in many cases the implementation of this idea is weak. All o...

Spatial planning is the most important tool for balancing the needs of the society, economy and the environment. Spatial planning differs from one country to another due to the different conditions and historical background, but there are major similar characteristics. In the first phase of the project, we elaborated a comparison analysis about t...

The purpose of this study is to summarize the science communication activities of the Faculty of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism, which are also required to include familiarisation with the image of landscapes formed by society. In 2006, the Faculty of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism of Szent István University integrated the issue of enviro...

The renewal of historic gardens, landscapes, and sites has grown to be a current issue in Central and Eastern Europe. Based on scientific research, the Department of Garden Art of the Szent István University, Faculty of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism has been dealing with landscape renewal since 1963 on regional, settlement, and garden scales,...

Rapid urbanization in countries over the world is affecting green spaces in these countries. The resulting loss and degradation of urban and peri-urban green space could adversely affect ecosystems as well as well-being. The aim of this paper is to provide a general overview of associations between urban green space, or Green Infrastructure, and ec...

The sustainable use of green areas is essential to the sustainability of cultural ecosystem services like Recreation and Tourism values. Cultural Ecosystem Services Sustainability Indicators can play an important role in advancing the science and practice of sustaining Recreation and Tourism values. The aim of this paper is that review the commonly...

Culture Ecosystems Services sustain humans all over the world. The unsustainable use of these services around the world has led to degradation which now threatens human health and livelihoods. Despite the increase of literature on cultural ecosystem services, still many challenges and threats that facing sustain and protect Culture Ecosystem Servic...

Several researches and international conventions highlight the importance of public participation in the process of strategy building (Primdahl et al., 2013). In the frames of our research we applied ppGIS method, a special, mostly new tool in Hungary. Our former researches justified the significance of this method especially in mapping of cultural...

The research presents the different practices of green infrastructure (GI) development between countries and groups of countries. The concept of GI, published in the United States in 1996 (Benedict, M. A.-McMahon, E. T. 2006), was adopted all over the world. However, the practical transposition of a complex concept at a theoretical level differs in...

Nemzetközi színtéren a tájgondozás évtizedek óta önállósult szakmai tevékenység. A tájgondnokok jellemzően értékekben gazdag, sokszínű tájakon, alulról jövő kezdeményezések alapján, de szabályozott intézményi és támogatási keretek között tevékenykednek. A tájgondozás sehol sem fedi le az érintett ország teljes területét, hanem azon térségek számára...

Fertő/Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape, as a transboundary World Heritage Site of Hungary and Austria, possesses unique cultural and natural values. The examined areas can be characterised as meeting places of different cultures. We examined the role of small towns in Fertő/Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape, which play an important role in regional...

In order to develop an effective Hungarian landscape policy it is essential to study best practices from foreign countries. With the contribution of French Master Landscape architect students we analyzed the tools of the French Landscape policy and compared the French and Hungarian planning and landscape protection practices. Since 1993 France has...

An essential condition for the success of rural areas is the harmonious enforcement of ecologic, economic, and other educational, cultural, aesthetic goods/ services of landscape, diversity of landscape functions. Landscape function analysis is a useful tool for the complex evaluation of rural regions. Using statistic and spatial data, we explored...

The comparison analysis and assessment of certain landscapes and landscape units is an effective tool for the decision makers for meeting appropriate land use decision. In our analysis we compared various groups of indices applicable for ecological landscape assessment applying them on three lowland landscape units. The assessed indices characteriz...

The reduction of untouched areas and the increase in residential, agricultural and industrial areas have gained speed in recent decades. As a result of the changes, one can often observe the disappearance of landmarks that had been connected to production, habitation and transportation. The first step for the preservation of landmarks is their iden...

Közép-Európa változatos tájai fontos részét képezik közös természeti és kulturális örökségünknek, egyben az életminőség forrásai is a helyi lakosok és látogatók számára. Ezek a tájak állandó kiszolgáltatottságban vannak a gazdasági hanyatlás és az intenzív fejlesztés káros hatásainak, amely során permanens változáson mennek keresztül. Jelen tanulmá...

A Kárpát-medence Európa egyik jellegzetes, kulturális és természeti adottságokban gazdag sokszínű térsége. A globalizációval, a beépítés növekedésével, a környezetszennyezés fokozódásával azonban a hazai tájakat, tájképet is az átalakulás veszélye fenyegeti. A hagyományos tájkép megőrzése, a jellegzetes tájkarakter fejlesztése komplex feladat, és a...

Nowadays a new research field is the application of the so called landscape indicators which serve the description and evaluation of landscapes. In this study we analyze landscape functions and ecosystem services in rural landscapes. We summarize most of the services/functions of the landscapes and analyze its balanced functioning in the case of mi...

1. Abstract Visualisation is used in landscape architecture to show the future state of an environment after plan implementation. The technology of this process is set to the extent of the planning area. ViLaCOrDEM is a method for use on the scale of landscape planners and regional planners. It presents land use changes in wide landscape scenery, w...

Vital Landscapes Project aims to interpret landscape management as an interactive, integrative, conscious and open procedure. Geodesign approach supports the frames of the research workflow and study area activities of the Hungarian project partner. It uses various combination of spatial data and software to interpret landscape in general and in th...

Az MKA bővítése eredményeképpen a kutatási időszak végére mintegy 1300 magyarországi és 600 hátáron túli történeti kert adatai gyűltek össze (képek, felvételi űrlap táblázatos adatai, leírások). Az adatbázis mérete folyamatosan növekszik. Jelenleg mintegy 5200 kép található A kerttörténeti adatok gyűjtése kiterjedt a teljes Közép-Európai régióra (C...