Péter Szabó
Biographic Data
| ID | 184538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Péter Szabó |
| GIVEN NAMES | Péter |
| FAMILY NAME | Szabó |
| SIGNATURE | SZABÓ P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2985-0717 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Embedding Rhetorical Competence in Medical Education: A Communication-Focused Course Innovation for Medical Students
Effective communication is essential for professional practice, yet medical curricula rarely incorporate systematic, performance-based training. The Sell Yourself!—Presentation Techniques course was developed to address this gap through a two-day, practice-oriented program integrating rhetorical training, evolutionary psychology, and structured peer feedback. We examined anonymized institutional evaluations from 450 medical students using descrip…
Comparative Analysis of Sport Systems: Examining Structure, Strategies, and Public Funding in Relation to Elite Sports Outcomes in Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia
This study examines how post-communist reforms have shaped the structure, strategy, and funding of elite sport systems in Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia, and how these transformations have influenced international sport performance. Despite extensive research on sport governance and funding in Western countries, there is a lack of comparative analysis focusing on nations transitioning from centralized, state-controlled systems to market-o…
Excitement vs Entertainment – Intrinsic Motivations and Spending Habits of Spectators at Individual Sport Competitions: The Case of Fina World Championships
Major international sports events are held in high regard by spectators, who contribute with their spending to the organizers and even to the given national economy where the event is organized. We investigated the intrinsic motivational factors of foreign spectators and their association with their event-related expenditure in the 2022 FINA World Aquatics Championships. The survey method was applied, and the sample consisted of n = 385 foreign s…
Quantitative trend analysis of well-established use mutual recognition and decentralised products indicates codified disharmonisation in the European Economic Area
From oxen to tourists: The management history of subalpine grasslands in the Sudeten mountains and its significance for nature conservation
Grasslands above the timberline in European high mountains, such as the Alps, have been used as summer pasture for millennia, creating diverse ecosystems of high conservation value. However, the historical ecology of natural grasslands in middle mountains is much less known. We combined archival and palaeoecological sources to understand the management history of subalpine grasslands in the Hrubý Jeseník Mountains (Czechia) and evaluated the resu…
The practice of historical ecology: What, when, where, how and what for
In recent decades, there has been a growing number of studies exploring the historical dimensions of the interconnectedness of human societies and the environment. A core approach in this field is historical ecology. We analyzed 544 historical-ecological papers to assess patterns and trends in the field. We found a high degree of interdisciplinarity with a focus on local case studies, of periods of fewer than 500 years, analyzing archival sources…
Spatial and temporal analysis of drought-related climate indices for Hungary for 1971–2100
The lack of precipitation may cause severe damage in different sectors, especially in agriculture and forestry, therefore, its analysis is a key element of adaptation strategies in the changing climate. In the present study, we selected different climate indices as important indicators for forests to investigate the current and future wet and dry conditions in summer in Hungary. For the historical period (from 1971), the observation-based HuClim …
The Horka Litter Raking Incident: On Foresters and Peasants in Nineteenth-Century Moravia
Litter raking was a traditional forest use representing an interface between forestry and agriculture. In forest history, it has usually been presented as the harmful removal by peasants of biomass, which was gradually eliminated by foresters, leading to better forest preservation. Based on the example of an exceptionally well-documented case of illegal litter raking in Moravia in 1845, in this paper I argue that juxtaposing foresters and peasant…
On interdisciplinarity in the humanities: A comment on Fanta et al. (2020) on the bias in dating obtained from historical sources
Comparative analysis of the economic burdens of physical inactivity in Hungary between 2005 and 2017
The increase in the economic burden associated with physical inactivity can be attributed to the combined effect of two factors: changes in total expenditure on specific disease groups (which showed an increase in the period under review) and changes in the physical activity levels of the Hungarian population (which showed an improvement over the period under review). Initiatives in Hungary aimed at encouraging an active lifestyle from childhood …
Eseh Notepad: Eseh Celebrates 20 years
Exploring Qualitative Methods of Historical Ecology and Their Links With Qualitative Research
A review of the historical ecology literature led us to the realization that there was an important gap in terms of recognized methodological procedures and techniques. Contributions along these lines are sparse. However, some publications (book chapters and papers), some of them case studies, contain methodological material of great interest. Therefore, all these materials needed to be gathered together and put in a historical ecology methodolog…
The Extent and Management of Woodland in Medieval Hungary
More than trees: The challenges of creating a geodatabase to capture the complexity of forest history
European forests have been copiously documented for centuries. However, forest-related archival sources were rarely utilised to their full potential, mainly because of the difficulties in producing compatible data from large amounts of very different sources. Furthermore, analysing such data for larger areas in high resolution was hardly possible prior to the emergence of historical GIS. This paper presents the geodatabase of the LONGWOOD project…
Population and forest dynamics during the Central European Eneolithic (4500–2000 BC)
The Economy of Medieval Hungary
The Economy of Medieval Hungary is the first concise, English-language volume about the economic life of medieval Hungary. It is a product of the cooperation of specialists representing various disciplines of medieval studies, including archaeologists, archaeozoologists, specialists in medieval demography, historical hydrologists, climate and environmental historians, as well as archivists and church historians. The twenty-five chapters of the bo…
Anthropological contributions to historical ecology: 50 Questions, Infinite Prospects
This paper presents the results of a consensus-driven process identifying 50 priority research questions for historical ecology obtained through crowdsourcing, literature reviews, and in-person workshopping. A deliberative approach was designed to maximize discussion and debate with defined outcomes. Two in-person workshops (in Sweden and Canada) over the course of two years and online discussions were peer facilitated to define specific key ques…
Eseh Notepad
Township boundaries and the colonization of the Moravian landscape
Collected Essays
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Spatio-Temporal Modelling As A Way to Reconstruct Patterns of Past Human Activities: Spatio-temporal modelling
This paper examines the possibilities of creating quantified models of past human activities in both time and space. The study area lies in the southeastern Czech Republic and western Slovakia. The spatio-temporal model of behavioural categories was calculated with the help of Monte Carlo simulations and statistical testing. One of the main advantages of our approach is that it admits the probabilistic nature of input data, quantifies them and pr…
Intensive woodland management in the Middle Ages: Spatial modelling based on archival data
Socio-Economic Demands, Ecological Conditions and the Power of Tradition: Past Woodland Management Decisions in a Central European Landscape
Humans have managed European landscapes, including woodlands, for millennia. Prior to the birth of modern forestry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, there existed two basic management forms for lowland broadleaved woods: coppicing and wood pasture. While the existence and characteristics of these two basic management types are well-known, the reasons why particular woods were coppiced while others pastured are little investigated. As a …
Prevalence of sedentary behaviour in young people in Romania and Slovakia
Sedentary behaviour is becoming a popular area of health research, but most studies report data on samples from Australia, the UK and USA, and on a narrow range of behaviours. The present study reports on the prevalence of multiple sedentary behaviours in a sample of secondary school students ( n = 635; mean age 16.0 years) from Romania and Slovakia. Ecological Momentary Assessment diaries were used to record multiple behaviours across weekdays a…
Continuity and change in the vegetation of a Central European oakwood
The issue of continuity in deciduous oakwood vegetation has been in the forefront of woodland ecological studies for many decades. The two basic questions that emerge from existing research are whether or not oakwoods can be characterized by long-term stability and what may be the driving forces of the observed stability or change. To answer these questions in a well-defined case study, we examined the history of a large subcontinental oakwood (D…
Population and forest dynamics during the Central European Eneolithic (4500–2000 BC)
The Horka Litter Raking Incident: On Foresters and Peasants in Nineteenth-Century Moravia
Litter raking was a traditional forest use representing an interface between forestry and agriculture. In forest history, it has usually been presented as the harmful removal by peasants of biomass, which was gradually eliminated by foresters, leading to better forest preservation. Based on the example of an exceptionally well-documented case of illegal litter raking in Moravia in 1845, in this paper I argue that juxtaposing foresters and peasant…
Ancient woodland boundaries in Europe
Exploring Qualitative Methods of Historical Ecology and Their Links With Qualitative Research
A review of the historical ecology literature led us to the realization that there was an important gap in terms of recognized methodological procedures and techniques. Contributions along these lines are sparse. However, some publications (book chapters and papers), some of them case studies, contain methodological material of great interest. Therefore, all these materials needed to be gathered together and put in a historical ecology methodolog…
The Economy of Medieval Hungary
The Economy of Medieval Hungary is the first concise, English-language volume about the economic life of medieval Hungary. It is a product of the cooperation of specialists representing various disciplines of medieval studies, including archaeologists, archaeozoologists, specialists in medieval demography, historical hydrologists, climate and environmental historians, as well as archivists and church historians. The twenty-five chapters of the bo…
Township boundaries and the colonization of the Moravian landscape
Spatio-Temporal Modelling As A Way to Reconstruct Patterns of Past Human Activities: Spatio-temporal modelling
This paper examines the possibilities of creating quantified models of past human activities in both time and space. The study area lies in the southeastern Czech Republic and western Slovakia. The spatio-temporal model of behavioural categories was calculated with the help of Monte Carlo simulations and statistical testing. One of the main advantages of our approach is that it admits the probabilistic nature of input data, quantifies them and pr…
Intensive woodland management in the Middle Ages: Spatial modelling based on archival data
Continuity and change in the vegetation of a Central European oakwood
The issue of continuity in deciduous oakwood vegetation has been in the forefront of woodland ecological studies for many decades. The two basic questions that emerge from existing research are whether or not oakwoods can be characterized by long-term stability and what may be the driving forces of the observed stability or change. To answer these questions in a well-defined case study, we examined the history of a large subcontinental oakwood (D…
From oxen to tourists: The management history of subalpine grasslands in the Sudeten mountains and its significance for nature conservation
Grasslands above the timberline in European high mountains, such as the Alps, have been used as summer pasture for millennia, creating diverse ecosystems of high conservation value. However, the historical ecology of natural grasslands in middle mountains is much less known. We combined archival and palaeoecological sources to understand the management history of subalpine grasslands in the Hrubý Jeseník Mountains (Czechia) and evaluated the resu…
More than trees: The challenges of creating a geodatabase to capture the complexity of forest history
European forests have been copiously documented for centuries. However, forest-related archival sources were rarely utilised to their full potential, mainly because of the difficulties in producing compatible data from large amounts of very different sources. Furthermore, analysing such data for larger areas in high resolution was hardly possible prior to the emergence of historical GIS. This paper presents the geodatabase of the LONGWOOD project…
Socio-Economic Demands, Ecological Conditions and the Power of Tradition: Past Woodland Management Decisions in a Central European Landscape
Humans have managed European landscapes, including woodlands, for millennia. Prior to the birth of modern forestry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, there existed two basic management forms for lowland broadleaved woods: coppicing and wood pasture. While the existence and characteristics of these two basic management types are well-known, the reasons why particular woods were coppiced while others pastured are little investigated. As a …
Ancient woodland boundaries in Europe
Prevalence of sedentary behaviour in young people in Romania and Slovakia
Sedentary behaviour is becoming a popular area of health research, but most studies report data on samples from Australia, the UK and USA, and on a narrow range of behaviours. The present study reports on the prevalence of multiple sedentary behaviours in a sample of secondary school students ( n = 635; mean age 16.0 years) from Romania and Slovakia. Ecological Momentary Assessment diaries were used to record multiple behaviours across weekdays a…
Continuity and change in the vegetation of a Central European oakwood
The issue of continuity in deciduous oakwood vegetation has been in the forefront of woodland ecological studies for many decades. The two basic questions that emerge from existing research are whether or not oakwoods can be characterized by long-term stability and what may be the driving forces of the observed stability or change. To answer these questions in a well-defined case study, we examined the history of a large subcontinental oakwood (D…
Socio-Economic Demands, Ecological Conditions and the Power of Tradition: Past Woodland Management Decisions in a Central European Landscape
Humans have managed European landscapes, including woodlands, for millennia. Prior to the birth of modern forestry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, there existed two basic management forms for lowland broadleaved woods: coppicing and wood pasture. While the existence and characteristics of these two basic management types are well-known, the reasons why particular woods were coppiced while others pastured are little investigated. As a …
Intensive woodland management in the Middle Ages: Spatial modelling based on archival data
Spatio-Temporal Modelling As A Way to Reconstruct Patterns of Past Human Activities: Spatio-temporal modelling
This paper examines the possibilities of creating quantified models of past human activities in both time and space. The study area lies in the southeastern Czech Republic and western Slovakia. The spatio-temporal model of behavioural categories was calculated with the help of Monte Carlo simulations and statistical testing. One of the main advantages of our approach is that it admits the probabilistic nature of input data, quantifies them and pr…
Anthropological contributions to historical ecology: 50 Questions, Infinite Prospects
This paper presents the results of a consensus-driven process identifying 50 priority research questions for historical ecology obtained through crowdsourcing, literature reviews, and in-person workshopping. A deliberative approach was designed to maximize discussion and debate with defined outcomes. Two in-person workshops (in Sweden and Canada) over the course of two years and online discussions were peer facilitated to define specific key ques…
Eseh Notepad
Township boundaries and the colonization of the Moravian landscape
Collected Essays
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Extent and Management of Woodland in Medieval Hungary
More than trees: The challenges of creating a geodatabase to capture the complexity of forest history
European forests have been copiously documented for centuries. However, forest-related archival sources were rarely utilised to their full potential, mainly because of the difficulties in producing compatible data from large amounts of very different sources. Furthermore, analysing such data for larger areas in high resolution was hardly possible prior to the emergence of historical GIS. This paper presents the geodatabase of the LONGWOOD project…
Population and forest dynamics during the Central European Eneolithic (4500–2000 BC)
The Economy of Medieval Hungary
The Economy of Medieval Hungary is the first concise, English-language volume about the economic life of medieval Hungary. It is a product of the cooperation of specialists representing various disciplines of medieval studies, including archaeologists, archaeozoologists, specialists in medieval demography, historical hydrologists, climate and environmental historians, as well as archivists and church historians. The twenty-five chapters of the bo…
Eseh Notepad: Eseh Celebrates 20 years
Exploring Qualitative Methods of Historical Ecology and Their Links With Qualitative Research
A review of the historical ecology literature led us to the realization that there was an important gap in terms of recognized methodological procedures and techniques. Contributions along these lines are sparse. However, some publications (book chapters and papers), some of them case studies, contain methodological material of great interest. Therefore, all these materials needed to be gathered together and put in a historical ecology methodolog…
Comparative analysis of the economic burdens of physical inactivity in Hungary between 2005 and 2017
The increase in the economic burden associated with physical inactivity can be attributed to the combined effect of two factors: changes in total expenditure on specific disease groups (which showed an increase in the period under review) and changes in the physical activity levels of the Hungarian population (which showed an improvement over the period under review). Initiatives in Hungary aimed at encouraging an active lifestyle from childhood …
The Horka Litter Raking Incident: On Foresters and Peasants in Nineteenth-Century Moravia
Litter raking was a traditional forest use representing an interface between forestry and agriculture. In forest history, it has usually been presented as the harmful removal by peasants of biomass, which was gradually eliminated by foresters, leading to better forest preservation. Based on the example of an exceptionally well-documented case of illegal litter raking in Moravia in 1845, in this paper I argue that juxtaposing foresters and peasant…
On interdisciplinarity in the humanities: A comment on Fanta et al. (2020) on the bias in dating obtained from historical sources
Spatial and temporal analysis of drought-related climate indices for Hungary for 1971–2100
The lack of precipitation may cause severe damage in different sectors, especially in agriculture and forestry, therefore, its analysis is a key element of adaptation strategies in the changing climate. In the present study, we selected different climate indices as important indicators for forests to investigate the current and future wet and dry conditions in summer in Hungary. For the historical period (from 1971), the observation-based HuClim …
The practice of historical ecology: What, when, where, how and what for
In recent decades, there has been a growing number of studies exploring the historical dimensions of the interconnectedness of human societies and the environment. A core approach in this field is historical ecology. We analyzed 544 historical-ecological papers to assess patterns and trends in the field. We found a high degree of interdisciplinarity with a focus on local case studies, of periods of fewer than 500 years, analyzing archival sources…
Quantitative trend analysis of well-established use mutual recognition and decentralised products indicates codified disharmonisation in the European Economic Area
From oxen to tourists: The management history of subalpine grasslands in the Sudeten mountains and its significance for nature conservation
Grasslands above the timberline in European high mountains, such as the Alps, have been used as summer pasture for millennia, creating diverse ecosystems of high conservation value. However, the historical ecology of natural grasslands in middle mountains is much less known. We combined archival and palaeoecological sources to understand the management history of subalpine grasslands in the Hrubý Jeseník Mountains (Czechia) and evaluated the resu…
Embedding Rhetorical Competence in Medical Education: A Communication-Focused Course Innovation for Medical Students
Effective communication is essential for professional practice, yet medical curricula rarely incorporate systematic, performance-based training. The Sell Yourself!—Presentation Techniques course was developed to address this gap through a two-day, practice-oriented program integrating rhetorical training, evolutionary psychology, and structured peer feedback. We examined anonymized institutional evaluations from 450 medical students using descrip…
Comparative Analysis of Sport Systems: Examining Structure, Strategies, and Public Funding in Relation to Elite Sports Outcomes in Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia
This study examines how post-communist reforms have shaped the structure, strategy, and funding of elite sport systems in Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia, and how these transformations have influenced international sport performance. Despite extensive research on sport governance and funding in Western countries, there is a lack of comparative analysis focusing on nations transitioning from centralized, state-controlled systems to market-o…
Geography (15 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Biology (10 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (8 works) · Historical and Archaeological Studies (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Woodland (6 works) · Environmental Science (5 works) · History (5 works)