Zsolt PinkeEötvös Lóránd University, Budapest · Physical Geography
Zsolt Pinke
PhD
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Introduction
I examine the long term associations between environmental and social structures. Currently I am a senior scientist at the Department of Physical Geography of Eötvös Loránd University. Recently I am staying at the Department of Agroecology of Aarhus University.
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January 2019 - October 2021
Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest
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- Senior Researcher
September 2009 - March 2014
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Publications (50)
The establishment of a sustainable land use system is crucial in Hungary (SE Europe) where 30% of croplands lie on former floodplains, and 40–45% of arable lands are drought-prone. We calculated and compared the monetary value of the main wetland ecosystem services, the profitability of land use and the additional costs of grain producer system on...
The warming of the climate and shrinking freshwater resources pose serious challenges to European agriculture. Meeting these challenges demands a thorough knowledge of the major trends in soil moisture patterns across the continent over time. Charting the available soil water (ASW) content (m 3 m-3) derived from the ERA5 Land dataset in grid cells...
Charting the long-term trends in European wheat and maize yields and harvested areas and the relation of yields to climatic and economic drivers, two profound spatial processes become apparent. One consequence of the relatively late modernization of Eastern Europe has been to shift the focus of grain production from West to East. The warming trend...
In the 12,000 years preceding the Industrial Revolution, human activities led to significant changes in land cover, plant and animal distributions, surface hydrology, and biochemical cycles. Earth system models suggest that this anthropogenic land cover change influenced regional and global climate. However, the representation of past land use in e...
The alluvial character of the Great Hungarian Plain has long determined its land use. Human-environmental interactions and landscale patterns were characterised by adaptation to frequent floods and high water availability. Different socio-economical factors in the 18-19th centuries initiated major drainage works and river regulations. These works a...
Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is a pillar of global wheat and maize production. However, certain areas within the CEE region have become climate change hotspots, experiencing intensifying water deficits and drought pressure, rising mean and maximum temperatures. This study focuses on the long-term statistical relationships between climatic facto...
2022 will be remembered as a year of severe drought in Europe. Production losses on account of the drought from the six crops representing the most extensive harvested area may even have run to an estimated 13 billion euros in the EU27. Considering the ratio of the six crops in all croplands, the total revenue loss to cropland farming may have reac...
A dolgozat a 2022. évi aszálynak az Európai Unió (EU) tagállamaiban legnagyobb területen termesztett gabonák és olajos magvak terméshozamaira gyakorolt hatását vizsgálja, azt feltételezve, hogy a meteorológiai esemény az EU nagy részén komoly nyomot hagyott a termésátlagokban. Ezzel szemben jelentősebb terméskiesés a Kárpát-Balkán és a mediterrán r...
2022 will be remembered as a year of severe drought in Europe. Production losses from six crops with the most extensive harvested area on account of the drought may even have run to an estimated 13 billion euros in the EU27, while based on the ratio of harvested areas, the total revenue loss to cropland farming may have reached twice as much (25–30...
Climate change and water scarcity increase the vulnerability of crop production and other ecosystem services (ES) in flood-protected lowlands under a continental climate. Restoration of wetlands leads to a higher water-buffering capacity of the landscape, strengthening various ecosystem services, and fostering adaptation to climatic, ecological, an...
Kulcsszavak: környezettörténet, erdőtörténet, vegetációtörténet, középkori építészettörténet, búbos kemence
Jelen dolgozat kiindulópontja egy erdőtörténeti rekonstrukció, amely térben a Tiszántúl középső részét (Hortobágy-Sárrét, 9331 km2), időben pedig az utóbbi ezer évet fedi le. A fásszárú növényekre vagy erdőkre vonatkozó középkori említések é...
Lowland forests benefiting from groundwater availability are important ecosystems in Central Europe, both from ecological and economic perspectives. Besides a great reduction in their extent in the historical times and further shifts in the land use and water management regimes intensified during the industrial era, continuing changes in the ground...
SÁRTENGER ÉS BÚZATENGER Mérlegen az alföldi gabonakonjunktúra és a vízszabályozások regionális következményei (1720-2020) * Bevezető Az Alföld területének mintegy a fele jelenleg hátrányos helyzetű, elmaradott tele-püléseket tömörít. 1 Noha a határmenti és az úgynevezett belső perifériák egymástól távol esnek, Beluszky Pál és Sikos T. Tamás szerint...
Year-to-year drougth indicator map series mapped by EDO JRC is available on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxSOJ72m9Ks
The groundwater uptake of forest stands often generates disputes, especially in today's drying climate. Forestry in Hungary does not take into account groundwater as a surplus water resource under 2 meters, while other sources show forest groundwater uptake in case of much deeper water table. White method is the most appropriate way to quantify wat...
The economic valuation of ESs is intended to assist decision-making processes, by assessing the value of the ESs in monetary terms. However, scientific debate about the ethical and methodological issues related to economic valuation of ESs is still ongoing. In this commentary, we would like to raise some of the methodological issues in detail and a...
The paper contains a lot of useful material for a deeper understanding of the development of mixed cultures of the Eurasian steppe/forest-steppe belt. The literary background is rich, materials and methods are clearly defined even for a non-specialist historian, and the importance of the results of genetic analyses is well demonstrated and illustra...
Quantitative reconstructions of past land cover are necessary to determine the processes involved in climate–human–land-cover interactions. We present the first temporally continuous and most spatially extensive pollen-based land-cover reconstruction for Europe over the Holocene (last 11 700 cal yr BP). We describe how vegetation cover has been qua...
Quantitative reconstructions of past land cover are necessary to determine the processes involved in climate-human-land-cover interactions. We present the first temporally continuous and most spatially extensive pollen-based land-cover reconstruction for Europe over the Holocene (last 11 700 cal yr BP). We describe how vegetation cover has been qua...
Riverine floods cause increasingly severe damages to human settlements and infrastructure. Ecosystems have a natural capacity to decrease both severity and frequency of floods. Natural flood regulation processes along freshwaters can be attributed to two different mechanisms: flood prevention that takes place in the whole catchment and flood mitiga...
Climate responses to major tropical volcanic eruptions bring about complex social effects with lasting historical consequences. Based on several historical episodes, we establish an argument that the weather-altering eruption of Samalas (1257), which shifted the Asian monsoon and caused global weather anomalies, may have played a significant role i...
Temperature and precipitation are the most important meteorological variables influencing crop yields of cereals. In the paper we use and compare two procedures, namely Factor analysis with special transformation and multiple linear regression analysis with stepwise method in determining the influence of monthly mean temperatures and monthly precip...
Groundwater (GW) in many regions is essential for agricultural productivity, especially during drought periods. The shrinking of GW is an important but rarely documented component of the recent global environmental crisis and may threaten food security. The problem cannot be put in proper perspective, because we rarely have datasets long and detail...
Various natural resources were abundant in medieval Hungary, and contemporary sources offer a portrait of the kingdom as rich because of these natural conditions. The different forms in which these resources were put to use were decisive for the history of the Carpathian Basin, including its environmental history. In the Middle Ages, there were two...
Reviewing the results of environmental epidemiology, post-volcanic climatology, and environmental history, we focused exclusively on volcanic eruption-ENSO and ENSO-cholera connections in order to establish a hypothesis that large tropical and Northern Hemisphere volcanic eruptions trigger an environmentally driven cascade process via post-volcanic...
The Mongol invasion in 1241–42 was a major disruption in the Kingdom of Hungary’s history that brought serious changes to many facets of its political, demographic, and military development. It became a long-lasting element of collective memory that influenced modern historical discourse. Nonetheless, questions remain about the level and distributi...
In their recent article published in the journal Scientific Reports, Büntgen and Di Cosmo have attempted to solve the historical mystery of the sudden Mongol withdrawal from Hungary after a year-long occupation. We cannot share the authors’ viewpoint that environmental circumstances contributed to the decision of the Mongols to abandon Hungary sinc...
The transformation of climatic regime has an undeniable impact on plant production, but we rarely have long enough date series to examine the unfolding of such effects. The clarification of the relationship between crop plants and climate has a near-immediate importance due to the impending human-made global change. This study investigated the rela...
Book Review on The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History. Isenberg, A. C., editor. 2014. Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K. 783 pp. $160.00 (hardcover). ISBN 978-019-5324907.
The studied 4.128 km² Central European lowland region includes the Hortobágy landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the most extensive protected natural grasslands of Europe. In the evolution of this semi-natural landscape human-nature interactions were characterised by gradual but extremely serious settlement abandonment during the 13t...
The paper focuses on changes in settlement patterns on the frontier zones of wetlands and areas suitable for settling in the Great Hungarian Plain, Central Europe. Based on the statistical analysis of archaeological site elevations in a 4.128 km² lowland landscape, it is demonstrated that archaeological sites of the Árpád Period (AD 970–1300) were...
Cultivation has a history of eight thousand years, olericulture five thousand years, while pomiculture two thousand years in Hungary (Central Europe). The majority of cereals arrived in the country with the Neolithic harvesting population. Most leguminous plants were brought in by the peoples of the tell cultures in the middle Bronze Age, while fru...
A HAJDÚSÁGI VÁROSTÉRSÉG AGROÖKOLÓGIAI ADOTTSÁGAI Bevezetés Györffy István a városok vagy városias települések egy speciális köre, a szállás-kertes települések kialakulását és működését a települést " üzemeltető " közös-ség anyagi kultúrája és életmódja felől közelítette meg, ami iskolateremtőnek bizonyult az alföldi mezőváros kutatásában. 1 Mendöl...
Az Európai Víz Keretirányelv (VKI) első számú célja vizeink jó állapotának megőrzése és helyreállítása. Megvalósításával kontinentális léptékű tájrehabilitációs program vette kezdetét. Magyarország számára, mely területének >10%-án belvízérzékeny szántóföldek fekszenek és a szántóföldi művelésben álló terület 40-45%-a súlyosan aszályos zónában talá...
The number one objective of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) is to restore the good status of water bodies. For Hungary, where more than 10% of the area is arable land highly exposed to excess surface water and 40-45% of croplands lie in the most drought affected zone, the implementation of the WFD is of particular significance. Accordi...
A természetes árterek, vizes élőhelyek helyreállításaa vegetáció vízkörforgásban betöltött szerepe miatta "természetközeli" növénytakaró rehabilitációjától elválaszthatatlan feladat. Az Alföld bizonyos térszínei a neolitikum óta művelés alatt állnak, ezért a mozaikos szerkezetű antropogén táj jelentős emberi beavatkozás előtti állapotának feltérkép...
The biggest unbroken floodzone network of the Carpathian Basin before 19th century river controls lay in Hortobágy-Sárrét (9331 km²). Due to persistant human destruction its indigenous vegetation has disappeared almost totally by now and 63% of the area characterized as agricultural landscape is involved into cropland farming. The constant lability...
Preface The idea of examining the relibility of Lászlóffy's so called 'wetland map' has been induced by the criticism of resources and databases used while conducting research into environmental history. We got a further impetus from historian György Györffy who neccessitated "rewriting the ancient hydrography of the Carpathian Basin". Perceiving t...
