Viktor Pál
Biographic Data
| ID | 2785201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Viktor Pál |
| GIVEN NAMES | Viktor |
| FAMILY NAME | Pál |
| SIGNATURE | PÁL V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Szeged |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1301-7517 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From Borderland to Burgenland: Science, Geopolitics, Identity, and the Making of a Region
The Enchanted Dollar Bill’: The Environmental History of Socialist Tourism in Hungary and Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia and Hungary were two of the most market-orientated states in communist Eastern Europe. Yet, as socialist states striving to reach a new modernity, rapid industrialisation was traditionally seen by their leaders as paramount in transforming them to match the leaders’ visions of a better and brighter future. By the 1960s, however, the introduction of tourism in beautiful – and fragile – environments began to pose challenges to rapid indu…
The history of environmental Turanism in the Pannonian basin in the early twentieth century
This study examines the rise and decline of Environmental Turanism as a counter-narrative to Western models of environmental modernization in interwar Hungary. Environmental Turanism emerged in the wake of the Treaty of Trianon (1920), which left deep social and political scars, and offered an alternative vision rooted in Eurasian cultural affinities and the steppe ecologies of the Pannonian Basin. It challenged the prevailing paradigm of large-s…
The Role of Music Festivals in Shaping Destination Branding and Image in Two Hungarian Regional Centers
Urban marketing with culture-led urban development has a growing importance for contemporary cities. In a global competition, cities must stand out and attract tourism, investment, and cultural activities. Consequently, their image should be constantly improved. City branding provides strategies for enhancing a city's public image – thus, becoming more and more attractive. Events and festivals, like popular music festivals, offer valuable opportu…
Trouble with the Bottle Beverage Containers and the Widening Waste Crisis in Socialist Hungary
Recent studies have explored the history of consumerism in communist Eastern Europe, suggesting that socialist consumption followed its own rhythm and logic. However, when it comes to waste-making and recycling existing literature focuses on post-industrial waste practices of the Soviet bloc, paying little attention to post-consumer waste. However, socialist societies did not follow the West's example and refrained from introducing single-use mat…
Introduction: The Waste of Conflict. The Conflicts of Waste
Throughout human history, people have always produced waste, but during the last century, this has shown explosive growth. Globally, a combination of rising incomes, urbanization, the development of new, cheap materials, and changing lifestyles have driven the growth of products that were designed to be used for only limited periods of time producing a totally unprecedented amount and variety of waste. However, this development has not affected a…
The Second Hungarian Conquest of the Carpathian Basin
During the nineteenth century many European scientists shared the view that a nation could compete successfully if only it improved its landscape via new infrastructures, such as large reclamation and river regulation projects, and via the intensive use of natural resources—for example, the scientifically planned use of forests. This “high” modernization path orchestrated by the political and scientific elites of Hungary sought to consolidate con…
Like Industrious Bees: Paper Waste and Recycling in Communist Hungary, 1950–1990
Analyses of the Soviet Bloc’s environmental record have often characterized it as “dirty.” While it is true that the Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies committed terrible ecological crimes while pursuing extensive and rapid economic growth, Eastern European states also developed and employed complex systems to repair, reuse, and recycle resources. This article traces the gradual change in the professional and political discussions of po…
Illiberal Environmentalism? The Case of Contemporary Hungary
Keskkonnakaitse autoritaarsetes ühiskondades / Environmental Protection in Authoritarian Societies
Artikkel käsitleb riigi sekkumist keskkonnaprobleemidesse autoritaarse riigikorraga riikides, tuues võrdluseks ka näiteid liberaalsetest demokraatiatest 20. sajandi teisel poolel. Keskkonnast kõnelemisel ökoloogiliste argumentide asemel majanduslikele kaalutlustele rõhumine on võte, mida on kasutatud mõlemal pool nn raudset eesriiet. Üksiknäidetena käsitleb artikkel Reini jõe reostust Lääne-Saksamaal, Ladina-Ameerikast Guatemala ja Tšiili juhtume…
Environmental Protection under Authoritarian Regimes in Cold War Chile and Hungary
Authoritarian regimes are often seen to be hostile toward the environment, albeit there is a growing body of literature suggesting a more nuanced image when it comes to authoritarian governments and the environment. However, several aspects of human-nature relationship need further clarification in non-democratic systems, both on the political left and right. In this article we aim to address that challenge by analysing Cold War economic and envi…
Toward Socialist Environmentalism? Scientists and Environmental Change in Modern Hungary
This article discusses state-socialist Hungary's approach towards environmental protection from theoretical, institutional and practical perspectives. It discusses the genesis of a holistic and complex scientific approach to the environment in the 1950s and 1960s and its impact on the formation of the country's environmental protection system (including environmental legal framework; environmental institutional system; and daily practices of envi…
Does better availability mean better accessibility? Spatial inequalities in the care of acute myocardial infarction in Hungary
The availability of health care services is an important issue, however, improving availability of health care services does not necessarily mean better accessibility for everybody. The main aim of this study is to find out how better availability in the care of acute myocardial infarction vary with accessibility of patients’ geographical location within Hungary. We applied statistical analysis and interview techniques to unfold the role of spati…
Urban Noise Conflicts in Szeged
Noise pollution is a serious and complex city problem. While there are objective, measurable parameters for noise mapping assessments, since the effects of noise are also subjectively perceived, it has been difficult to accurately evaluate the urban problems and conflicts arising from noise. Urban noise and its perception is related to the quality of life; thus its analysis is can provide useful insights for decision-makers. Therefore, through an…
Environmentalism under Authoritarian Regimes: Myth, Propaganda, Reality
"Since the early 2000s, authoritarianism has risen as an increasingly powerful global phenomenon. This shift has not only social and political implications, but environmental implications too: authoritarian leaders seek to recast the relationship between society and the government in every aspect of public life, including environmental policy. When historians of technology or the environment have investigated the environmental consequences of aut…
Eseh Notepad
Perspectives on Unified Military Industries of the Soviet Bloc
Pál Germuska, Unified Military Industries of the Soviet Bloc: Hungary and the Division of Labor in Military Production. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015. xxi + 304 pp.Reviewed by Mark Harrison, University of Warwick (UK)Pál Germuska is a historian of Communist-era Eastern Europe at the Hungarian Ministry of Defense and the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. His new book completes a major project of research into the coordination of the defens…
A költségtávolság alakulása a diszkont és a hagyományos légitársaságok repülőjegyárai alapján, Budapest példáján
A 20. század második felétől a közlekedési és infokommunikációs technológiák fejlődése jelentős mértékben átalakította az emberek mobilitásának, az áruk szállításának és az információ áramlásának földrajzi és időbeli korlátait, elősegítve ezzel a városok térkapcsolatainak egyre komplexebbé válását. Kutatásunkban egyrészt a diszkont és a hagyományos légitársaságok eltérő üzletpolitikájára és gyakorlataira, másrészt ezek térmódosító kontextusaira k…
Mapping cost distance using air traffic data
Recent trends in transport and communication infrastructures have had a profound impact on the spatial organization of the world city network, which have long been of interest to geographers. Considering the former issue, our study is based on previous works on air transport geography and world city network studies. We introduce a new method to map the gap between geographical distance and cost distance by using air traffic data. In this paper, w…
The Cold War and environmental history: Complementary fields
The Cold War was not only for the hearts and minds of people, it was also for their mouths and bellies, that is, for food, energy and raw materials. This signified a global power struggle over the control of natural resources. In addition to the increasing consumption of natural resources and resulting pollution, the destructive capacity of the weapons of mass destruction compelled human beings to recognise that their activities could ultimately …
A potenciális városok egészségügyi infrastruktúrájának és ellátottságának területi sajátosságai
Several works of Hungarian social geography have already dealt with the regional particularities of the system of health care in Hungary, especially with its disequilibria. During the surveys, the most significant regional problems of the Hungarian health care system were very soon explored: A hospital network over-concentrated in certain regions, neglected basic and social care, centralised chronic departments in the hospitals, also, the Budapes…
The Cold War and environmental history: Complementary fields
The Cold War was not only for the hearts and minds of people, it was also for their mouths and bellies, that is, for food, energy and raw materials. This signified a global power struggle over the control of natural resources. In addition to the increasing consumption of natural resources and resulting pollution, the destructive capacity of the weapons of mass destruction compelled human beings to recognise that their activities could ultimately …
Trouble with the Bottle Beverage Containers and the Widening Waste Crisis in Socialist Hungary
Recent studies have explored the history of consumerism in communist Eastern Europe, suggesting that socialist consumption followed its own rhythm and logic. However, when it comes to waste-making and recycling existing literature focuses on post-industrial waste practices of the Soviet bloc, paying little attention to post-consumer waste. However, socialist societies did not follow the West's example and refrained from introducing single-use mat…
Illiberal Environmentalism? The Case of Contemporary Hungary
Toward Socialist Environmentalism? Scientists and Environmental Change in Modern Hungary
This article discusses state-socialist Hungary's approach towards environmental protection from theoretical, institutional and practical perspectives. It discusses the genesis of a holistic and complex scientific approach to the environment in the 1950s and 1960s and its impact on the formation of the country's environmental protection system (including environmental legal framework; environmental institutional system; and daily practices of envi…
A potenciális városok egészségügyi infrastruktúrájának és ellátottságának területi sajátosságai
Several works of Hungarian social geography have already dealt with the regional particularities of the system of health care in Hungary, especially with its disequilibria. During the surveys, the most significant regional problems of the Hungarian health care system were very soon explored: A hospital network over-concentrated in certain regions, neglected basic and social care, centralised chronic departments in the hospitals, also, the Budapes…
A költségtávolság alakulása a diszkont és a hagyományos légitársaságok repülőjegyárai alapján, Budapest példáján
A 20. század második felétől a közlekedési és infokommunikációs technológiák fejlődése jelentős mértékben átalakította az emberek mobilitásának, az áruk szállításának és az információ áramlásának földrajzi és időbeli korlátait, elősegítve ezzel a városok térkapcsolatainak egyre komplexebbé válását. Kutatásunkban egyrészt a diszkont és a hagyományos légitársaságok eltérő üzletpolitikájára és gyakorlataira, másrészt ezek térmódosító kontextusaira k…
Mapping cost distance using air traffic data
Recent trends in transport and communication infrastructures have had a profound impact on the spatial organization of the world city network, which have long been of interest to geographers. Considering the former issue, our study is based on previous works on air transport geography and world city network studies. We introduce a new method to map the gap between geographical distance and cost distance by using air traffic data. In this paper, w…
The Cold War and environmental history: Complementary fields
The Cold War was not only for the hearts and minds of people, it was also for their mouths and bellies, that is, for food, energy and raw materials. This signified a global power struggle over the control of natural resources. In addition to the increasing consumption of natural resources and resulting pollution, the destructive capacity of the weapons of mass destruction compelled human beings to recognise that their activities could ultimately …
Perspectives on Unified Military Industries of the Soviet Bloc
Pál Germuska, Unified Military Industries of the Soviet Bloc: Hungary and the Division of Labor in Military Production. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015. xxi + 304 pp.Reviewed by Mark Harrison, University of Warwick (UK)Pál Germuska is a historian of Communist-era Eastern Europe at the Hungarian Ministry of Defense and the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. His new book completes a major project of research into the coordination of the defens…
Environmentalism under Authoritarian Regimes: Myth, Propaganda, Reality
"Since the early 2000s, authoritarianism has risen as an increasingly powerful global phenomenon. This shift has not only social and political implications, but environmental implications too: authoritarian leaders seek to recast the relationship between society and the government in every aspect of public life, including environmental policy. When historians of technology or the environment have investigated the environmental consequences of aut…
Eseh Notepad
Does better availability mean better accessibility? Spatial inequalities in the care of acute myocardial infarction in Hungary
The availability of health care services is an important issue, however, improving availability of health care services does not necessarily mean better accessibility for everybody. The main aim of this study is to find out how better availability in the care of acute myocardial infarction vary with accessibility of patients’ geographical location within Hungary. We applied statistical analysis and interview techniques to unfold the role of spati…
Urban Noise Conflicts in Szeged
Noise pollution is a serious and complex city problem. While there are objective, measurable parameters for noise mapping assessments, since the effects of noise are also subjectively perceived, it has been difficult to accurately evaluate the urban problems and conflicts arising from noise. Urban noise and its perception is related to the quality of life; thus its analysis is can provide useful insights for decision-makers. Therefore, through an…
Environmental Protection under Authoritarian Regimes in Cold War Chile and Hungary
Authoritarian regimes are often seen to be hostile toward the environment, albeit there is a growing body of literature suggesting a more nuanced image when it comes to authoritarian governments and the environment. However, several aspects of human-nature relationship need further clarification in non-democratic systems, both on the political left and right. In this article we aim to address that challenge by analysing Cold War economic and envi…
Toward Socialist Environmentalism? Scientists and Environmental Change in Modern Hungary
This article discusses state-socialist Hungary's approach towards environmental protection from theoretical, institutional and practical perspectives. It discusses the genesis of a holistic and complex scientific approach to the environment in the 1950s and 1960s and its impact on the formation of the country's environmental protection system (including environmental legal framework; environmental institutional system; and daily practices of envi…
Illiberal Environmentalism? The Case of Contemporary Hungary
Keskkonnakaitse autoritaarsetes ühiskondades / Environmental Protection in Authoritarian Societies
Artikkel käsitleb riigi sekkumist keskkonnaprobleemidesse autoritaarse riigikorraga riikides, tuues võrdluseks ka näiteid liberaalsetest demokraatiatest 20. sajandi teisel poolel. Keskkonnast kõnelemisel ökoloogiliste argumentide asemel majanduslikele kaalutlustele rõhumine on võte, mida on kasutatud mõlemal pool nn raudset eesriiet. Üksiknäidetena käsitleb artikkel Reini jõe reostust Lääne-Saksamaal, Ladina-Ameerikast Guatemala ja Tšiili juhtume…
Like Industrious Bees: Paper Waste and Recycling in Communist Hungary, 1950–1990
Analyses of the Soviet Bloc’s environmental record have often characterized it as “dirty.” While it is true that the Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies committed terrible ecological crimes while pursuing extensive and rapid economic growth, Eastern European states also developed and employed complex systems to repair, reuse, and recycle resources. This article traces the gradual change in the professional and political discussions of po…
The Role of Music Festivals in Shaping Destination Branding and Image in Two Hungarian Regional Centers
Urban marketing with culture-led urban development has a growing importance for contemporary cities. In a global competition, cities must stand out and attract tourism, investment, and cultural activities. Consequently, their image should be constantly improved. City branding provides strategies for enhancing a city's public image – thus, becoming more and more attractive. Events and festivals, like popular music festivals, offer valuable opportu…
Trouble with the Bottle Beverage Containers and the Widening Waste Crisis in Socialist Hungary
Recent studies have explored the history of consumerism in communist Eastern Europe, suggesting that socialist consumption followed its own rhythm and logic. However, when it comes to waste-making and recycling existing literature focuses on post-industrial waste practices of the Soviet bloc, paying little attention to post-consumer waste. However, socialist societies did not follow the West's example and refrained from introducing single-use mat…
Introduction: The Waste of Conflict. The Conflicts of Waste
Throughout human history, people have always produced waste, but during the last century, this has shown explosive growth. Globally, a combination of rising incomes, urbanization, the development of new, cheap materials, and changing lifestyles have driven the growth of products that were designed to be used for only limited periods of time producing a totally unprecedented amount and variety of waste. However, this development has not affected a…
The Second Hungarian Conquest of the Carpathian Basin
During the nineteenth century many European scientists shared the view that a nation could compete successfully if only it improved its landscape via new infrastructures, such as large reclamation and river regulation projects, and via the intensive use of natural resources—for example, the scientifically planned use of forests. This “high” modernization path orchestrated by the political and scientific elites of Hungary sought to consolidate con…
The Enchanted Dollar Bill’: The Environmental History of Socialist Tourism in Hungary and Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia and Hungary were two of the most market-orientated states in communist Eastern Europe. Yet, as socialist states striving to reach a new modernity, rapid industrialisation was traditionally seen by their leaders as paramount in transforming them to match the leaders’ visions of a better and brighter future. By the 1960s, however, the introduction of tourism in beautiful – and fragile – environments began to pose challenges to rapid indu…
The history of environmental Turanism in the Pannonian basin in the early twentieth century
This study examines the rise and decline of Environmental Turanism as a counter-narrative to Western models of environmental modernization in interwar Hungary. Environmental Turanism emerged in the wake of the Treaty of Trianon (1920), which left deep social and political scars, and offered an alternative vision rooted in Eurasian cultural affinities and the steppe ecologies of the Pannonian Basin. It challenged the prevailing paradigm of large-s…
From Borderland to Burgenland: Science, Geopolitics, Identity, and the Making of a Region
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