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    Environmental policy and practice in Eastern and Western Europe
    (Centre for Regional Studies, 1995) Fodor, István (szerk.); Walker, Gordon P. (szerk.)
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    Perspectives of renewable energy in the Danube region
    (Institute for Regional Studies, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2015) Ortiz, Willington (szerk.); Somogyvári, Márta (szerk.); Varjú, Viktor (szerk.); Fodor, István (szerk.); Lechtenböhmer, Stefan (szerk.)
    The energy production in the Danube region is predominantly based on fossil and nuclear energy sources contributing to climate change and endangering the ecosystem and lowering the quality of life. While in the last decade the share of renewable energy sources (RES) has grown steadily in final energy consumption, the national energy strategies in the Danube region are still mainly based on fossil and nuclear sources. The international financial crisis and the prolonged recession have pushed the issues of environmental protection and sustainable energy production in the region into the background. The existing RES technologies and plants are in some cases only pilot or small scale projects and they can not spread to their full extent due to political, legal, administrative, economic and technical barriers. Although a lot of studies try to quantify the Renewable Energy Source (RES) potential in the EU and worldwide, the methodology of assessment varies from country to country, from author to author and from time to time. This makes impossible to compare the results because of the diverting assumptions, time horizons and methodology (NREL 2012). Moreover, any informed decision on energy policy should consider the interlinks of energy supply and consumption to ecological, economic and social dimensions. Thus, the goal of the book is to advance in the sound assessment of RES potentials in the Danube Region as weil as in understanding the ecological, economic and societal aspects related with the deployment of those potentials.
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    The role of environmental industry in the regional reindustrialisation in Hungary
    (Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2009) Baranyi, Béla (szerk.); Fodor, István (szerk.)
    The economic crisis processes, going on in the world and having a detrimental effect on Hungary too, have once again drawn academic attention to the issues of reindustrialisation, especially in the transition countries of East-Central Europe: this is the region where, due to the former political and socio-economic systemic change process, an especially intensive de-industrialisation process took place. Within the issue of reindustrialisation, an issue of primary importance,' the issues related to the role of environmental industry are given a special emphasis, in connection with the processes of the global climate change. Environmental industry, using the achievements of the academic sector, is expected to be the sector with the most dynamically expanding market both in the international arena and in Hungary. The papers of this book deal with the Hungarian characteristics and possibilities of environmental industry; each chapter was written on the different segments of this industry. The subjects of the chapters started from the recognition that environmental industry offers a realistic opportunity for regional development based on innovative industries. Taking the characteristic Hungarian features into consideration, the book places a special emphasis on biomass-based renewable energy production and the related issues of waste management. Several chapters were written on the topic of climate change, an issue of utmost importance in the environmental debates, and the relevances of climate change for the environmental industry.