The River Keeps The Score: Religiously Relinking to Budapest’s Danube River

For millennia, humans have lived, constructed, and cultivated along the banks of rivers. Rivers are the genius loci of these riverside cities, embodying the spirit of the place and its people. Rivers have been the source of life upon which civilization was built: providing water, power, and transport, but are also spiritually deeply meaningful...

The development of strategic spatial planning in Central and Eastern Europe: between path dependence, European influence, and domestic politics

Focusing on three of the Central and Eastern European countries–Poland, Czech Republic, and Hungary–the paper investigates the evolution of spatial planning systems and the introduction of strategic planning practices from the beginning of the post-communist transition in the early 1990s to the present. It sheds new light on this issue by...

Responsible research and innovation in contrasting innovation environments: Socio-Technical Integration Research in Hungary and the Netherlands

Recently, the notion of responsible research and innovation (RRI) has been gaining momentum in policy and practice. The main claim of RRI is that social, ethical and environmental aspects should be taken into consideration in scientific research and innovation activities. Socio-Technical Integration Research (STIR) is one of the first tools...

Shelter landscape: A landscape approach to the refugee camp in peri urban areas along the austrian hungarian border

Future prospects of the Low Cost Country sourcing strategy: A case study analysis of the critical uncertainties within: Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and the Netherlands

The current globalized world continuously increases competitiveness and the pressure to raise operational efficiency in all industries. A popular approach among labour intensive industries is the Low Cost Country sourcing strategy. At present, central and eastern European regions are popular sourcing destinations for western European based firms...

Security and insecurity aspects of home ownership in Hungary - interaction of preconditions and motivations

Workshop 1. Session B. Abstract. The OSIS research has provided a lot of useful quantitative and qualitative data on what aspects have an influence on housing decisions and how these aspects are interrelated. The effects of the institutional changes (transition processes) in Hungary have been complemented by some further aspects that have to be...

The social limits of growth: Security and insecurity aspects of home ownership

Commissions for Environmental Impact Assessment: Their contribution to the effectiveness of Environmental Impact Assessment