Loránt Pregi

Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice · Institute of Geography

The collapse of the socialist regime led to significant changes in migration patterns, garnering considerable attention in geographical research. However, despite the increased interest, many studies on internal migration lack a detailed analysis of its spatial aspects. Spatial autocorrelation methods can reveal spatial patterns, but so far they ha...

The economy has been developing exceptionally dynamically in recent decades. In the Central European countries of the former Eastern Bloc, the transformation from a centrally planned to a market economy contributed to these dynamics after 1989. Despite a large number of analyses at the national level or in particular cities, the impact of this deve...

Commuting to work is one of the most important forms of spatial mobility of the population. The mode of transport is one of its key characteristics. However, its spa-tial variability has so far been little explored, which is also due to the lack of reliable sta-tistical data. The census in Slovakia in 2021 addressed this issue, offering an opportun...

Anaerobic digestion (AD) plants fed by agricultural biowastes are highly relevant renewable energy producers supporting the transition towards sustainable waste management. However, local support for the operation of individual AD plants seems to be highly diverse, case specific and generally insufficient. Following this challenge visible especiall...

Anaerobic digestion (AD) plants undoubtedly represent an integral and irreplaceable element in rural energy transition and sustainable waste management. In our study, we focus on an advanced understanding of the dynamics behind the changing perceptions of AD plants in host communities in Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. The surveyed AD pla...

The energy transformation of EU countries brings challenges in the field of energy policies and forms of state support. Moreover, the introduction of new technologies and the production of energy from renewable sources often face resistance and negative attitudes from the population. Slovakia is a country, which, in addition to decarbonisation, nee...

Majority of research on urban development perceive migration as internally homogeneous phenomenon that influences growth and spatial redistribution of population. This enables to identify certain general migration patterns, but understanding regularities and consequences requires looking at internal structure of migration. This paper aims to visual...

The study aims at assessing spatial patterns of Slovak nationals participating in pre-primary, primary and secondary public education in the territory of Hungary. The research is based on a detailed statistical and spatial analysis of data provided by the Educational Office of Hungary. The analysis revealed regularities and differences in commuting...

This paper aims to assess the interregional and intraregional migration processes of population subgroups by educational attainment in the urban region of Bratislava and to identify the patterns of migration using stages of urban development. The study employs anonymized data on individual migrations in Slovakia for the period 1996-2015. The resear...

Small towns, compared to larger cities, are specific group of municipalities with weaker performance in many spheres of socio-economic development. The aim of the paper is to comprehensively evaluate development of twelve small towns in the region of East Slovakia over the centuries up to present. The paper deals with question how their demographic...

The paper focuses on the assessment of the impact of natural reproduction and migration of population on the changes in population structure by religiosity within chosen functional urban regions. The regions of Bratislava, Košice and Lučenec were chosen to cover various categories of functional urban regions by spatial extent, population size, econ...

The paper focuses on the assessment of the impact of natural reproduction and migration of population on the changes in population structure by religiosity within chosen functional urban regions. The regions of Bratislava, Košice and Lučenec were chosen to cover various categories of functional urban regions by spatial extent, population size, econ...

The paper aims to assess the impact of migration and natural reproduction of population to the changes in ethnic structure of population by the case study of three multi-ethnic functional urban regions in Slovakia. All three regions are located at the Slovak-Hungarian ethnic border and are characterized by larger proportion of Slovaks and lower pro...