BOOKS
Finland has been often labelled a ‘green superpower’. In 2016, according to the EPI (Environmental Performance Index) prepared by Yale and Columbia Universities, Finland was the world’s cleanest and greenest country. Environmental historians, however, can detect that the commonly perceived ‘greenness’ of the Nordic countries is partly an illusion.
(Published in 2023)
This book uncovers, explores and analyses the cultural and social factors and values that lie behind waste making, recycling and disposal in the Asia Pacific region.
It demonstrates the immense scope of waste as a multi-sectoral phenomenon, covering discussions on food, menstrual products, sewage, electronics, scrap, nuclear waste, and plastics.
(Published in 2022)
Social and Cultural Aspects of the Circular Economy argues for a social and solidarity economy (SSE) to combine individual actions with a wider cultural shift. It will be an important read for scholars, researchers, students and policymakers in the circular economy, waste studies, consumption, and other environmentally focused social sciences.
(Published in 2021)
Technology and the Environment in State-Socialist Hungary (2017)
This book explores the themes of environmental politics and authoritarian regimes on both the right and the left. The authors argue that in instances where environmentalist policies offer the possibility of bolstering a country’s domestic (nationalist) appeal or its international prestige, authoritarian regimes can endorse and have endorsed environmental protective measures.
(Published in 2019)
Technology and the Environment in State-Socialist Hungary (2017)
Technology and the Environment in State-Socialist Hungary (2017)
Technology and the Environment in State-Socialist Hungary (2017)
"Viktor Pál has written an important book that makes long-overdue contributions to the economic history of Eastern Europe and of socialist economic development."
(Journal of Economic History, May 2021)
(Published in 2017)