Dilemmas in the use and layout of ecological network in Hungary

Authors

  • Virág Kutnyánszky Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Institute of Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Garden Art, Budapest, Department of Landscape Planning and Regional Development
  • Miklós Zsolt Szilvácsku Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Institute of Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Garden Art, Budapest, Department of Landscape Planning and Regional Development

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36249/4d.67.3728

Keywords:

ecological network, sustanable land use, biodiversity, nature conservation

Abstract

Hungary faced an extreme drought in the summer of 2022, especially in the Great Hungarian Plain. Many local farmers called for a change – only to find that the change requires all of them and the re-thinking of the way they use their lands. Our research aims to use the original Eastern European Ecological Network concept to locate key areas of biodiversity, connectivity and water management - where the necessary landuse changes can be implemented. We examined the area in a regional scale, using connectivity analyses, and in a local scale, analyzing land use, habitats and the aspects of natural water cycle of the landscape. We found that the regional scale model gave slightly different results than the local-scale research and the difference is strongly related to the inadequate use of the potential flood-plain areas.

Author Biographies

  • Virág Kutnyánszky, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Institute of Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Garden Art, Budapest, Department of Landscape Planning and Regional Development

    PhD student
    e-mail: kut.virag@gmail.com

  • Miklós Zsolt Szilvácsku, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Institute of Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Garden Art, Budapest, Department of Landscape Planning and Regional Development

    assistant professor, PhD
    e-mail: szilvacsku.miklos.zsolt@uni-mate.hu

     

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2023-04-30

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Dilemmas in the use and layout of ecological network in Hungary. (2023). 4D Journal of Landscape Architecture and Garden Art, 67, 64-71. https://doi.org/10.36249/4d.67.3728

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