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Volume 55 / No. 3 / 2003
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF MINORITY SELF-GOVERNMENT IN HUNGARY
Major changes in Hungarian industry during the period of transition
Aktuelle sozialstrukturelle Veränderungen in den ungarischen Großwohnsiedlungen
PRÍSPEVOK K POZNANIU KRAJINY VODNEJ NÁDRŽE RONAVA S DÔRAZOM NA AVIFAUNU
Károly Kocsis*
K. Kocsis: Contributions to the geographical study of minority
self-govern-ment in Hungary. Geografický časopis, 55, 2003, 3, 4 figs., 3
tabs., 6 refs.
Despite the ethnic cleansings, deportations, forced assimilation, homogenization
and partly due to the economically motivated migrations there is no country in
Europe which could be called as ethnic homogeneous. This is particularly true in
the case of the small ”nation-states” of the Carpatho-Balkanic region, which
also includes Hungary. The Hungarian state taught by the nationalistic mistakes
of her history, on the basis of the subsidiarity made possible the formation of
the self-government ”councils” of the minorities on the local and national
level (Act Nr. LXXVII., 1993). By the beginning of 1998 736, by the beginning of
2003 1843 minority local self-government councils (999 Gipsy-Roma, 340 German,
114 Slovak, 107 Croatian, 44 Rumanian, 43 Serbian, etc.) were formed beside the
3167 local (settlement) self-government councils of Hungary. This paper outlines
the Hungarian form of minority protection, revealing in the public
administration, the formation, functioning, problems of the minority
self-government councils and generally the political activity of the minorities
in the frame work of the public administration.
Key words: national and ethnic minorities, minority self-governments,
Hungary
Eva Kiss*
E. Kiss: Major changes in Hungarian industry during the period
of transition. Geografický časopis, 55, 2003, 3, 5 figs., 3 tabs., 15 refs.
The change in the social system in 1989 was an important landmark in the history
of Hungarian industry. Since then radical changes have taken place in industry.
The main purpose of the present study is to demonstrate them with particular
regard to their spatial consequences and to the role of industrial estates.
During the last decade relevant organizational, structural, proprietal and other
alterations have occurred in Hungarian industry, which have considerably
affected its spatial pattern both on the national and local levels. Industrial
estates have appeared in Hungary in the second half of the 1990s and it seems
that they play a more and more important role in Hungarian industry and in
shaping industrial space.
Key words: industrial restructuring, industrial estates, Hungary
Tomás Egedy*
T. Egedy: Present socio-structural changes in Hungarian
housing estates. Geografický časopis, 55, 2003, 3, 7 figs., 1 tab., 16 refs.
High-rise housing estates could be characterised already in the socialist period
by specific social features and structure. The mixed social structure, the
”estate society” and ”estate life” appeared namely in Hungary as brand
new phenomena. The change of the socio-economic regime was a turning point in
the development of housing estates. A devaluation of their prestige has been
indicated by the accelerated housing mobility, a rapid fluctuation of the
resident population in these quarters and a general intention to move out. After
the change of power a profound transformation of the social environment has
taken place and the previous balance of the social pattern has been broken. A
stabilisation of the population is under way turning these estates into
independent residence classed. This paper presents the effects of the
privatisation and the housing market affecting the housing estates, together
with the main features and tendencies of the filtering down process in the
Hungarian housing estates.
Key words: socio-structural change, housing estates, resident population,
Hungary
Ján Urbánek*
J. Urbánek: Geomorphological map as a system. Geografický
časopis, 55, 2003, 3, 5 figs., 14 refs.
The study describes production of the geomorphological map based on the
hypothesis that the set of mapped forms is a system (set of forms in
interaction). Syntactic aspect of this process, structure and content of the
legend are dealt with. It also contains the geomorphological map of a particular
territory compiled pursuing the principle of system.
Key words: geomorphological map, geomorphological analysis, system
geomorphological catena, relief type
Ivan Ružek, Dušan Senko*
I. Ružek, D. Senko: Contribution to the knowledge of the
Ronava water reservoir landscape with emphasis on avifauna. Geografický časopis,
55, 2003, 3, 3 figs., 6 tabs., 22 refs.
The aim of the paper is to explain and assess the species diversity of the
water, next to water living, and terrestrial avifauna as observed at the Ronava
water reservoir and its environs. The Ronava water reservoir is situated in the
south-eastern part of the Trnava loess plateau. The paper is based on the
empirical research in the above-mentioned area in July 2001 - June 2002. The
author is trying to evaluate the Ronava water reservoir as a potential refuge
for water and next to water living fowl and to compare it to the Trnava ponds
while exposing the problems, solution of which may contribute to the optimum
nesting conditions.
Key words: Ronava water reservoir, Trnava loess plateau, avifauna,
mapping, bird migration, phytocenosis
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