Science has made our lives safer and more comfortable than ever before in history. Yet, our success came with an enormous price tag for the natural environment, our bodies, and our mental health.
I aspire to tell stories that reflect on human induced change in the natural world. By doing so, I hope to point out past mistakes from which future generations can learn. History is complicated, and when black and white is the zeitgeist, I just hope my work is not completely useless.
AB IMPERIO (2024) 25(2), 119-146.
"Socialist Environmental Holism in the Soviet Arctic and the Plains of Hungary"
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY (2024) 59(2), 293-312.
"Trouble with the Bottle Beverage Containers and the Widening Waste Crisis in Socialist Hungary"
AGRICULTURAL HISTORY (2024) 98(1): 50–70.
“The Second Hungarian Conquest of the Carpathian Basin. High Modernism and the Ecological Crisis in the Eastern Half of the Habsburg Empire during the Nineteenth Century”
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY (2024) 59(2), 223-233.
"Introduction: The Waste of Conflict. The Conflicts of Waste" with Iris Borowy and Carl Zimring
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00220094241234582
ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY (2023) 28(2), 335-360.
“Like Industrious Bees. Paper Waste and Recycling in Communist Hungary, 1950-1990”
ENVIRONMENT AND HISTORY (2023) 29(2), 239-259.
"Toward Socialist Environmentalism? Scientists and Environmental Change in Modern Hungary"
ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY (2022) 27(4), 649-656.
“Illiberal Environmentalism? The Case of Contemporary Hungary”
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT (2021) 14(2), 310–334.
"Environmental Protection under Authoritarian Regimes in Cold War Chile and Hungary"
Viktor Pál and Leonardo Valenzuela Perez
Finland has been often labelled a ‘green superpower’. 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.
(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.
(Published in 2021)
IN SLOVENIAN:
Okoljevarstvo v socializmu - slovenski primer with Marta Rendla, Janja Sedlaček
in "Potenciali in upravljanje vodá. Med preteklostjo in sedanjostjo" edited by Marta Rendla (2024)
IN GERMAN:
Der Umweltkontext der sozialistischen Industrialisierung in den Ländern Mitteleuropas - am Beispiel der Slowakei und Ungarns In "Umweltgeschichte in mitteleuropäischen Kontexten" edited by Roman Holec and Martin Zückert (2024)
IN SLOVAK:
Životné prostredie a socialistická industrializácia v strednej Európe na príklade Slovenska a Maďarska with Ľudovít Hallon
In "Environmentálne dejiny v stredoeurópskom kontexte" edited by Roman Holec and Martin Zückert (2023)
https://www.sav.sk/?lang=sk&doc=activity-monography-response-page&institute_no=18&monography_id=382
IN ESTONIAN:
METHIS (2022) 24(30) 117-131.
"Keskkonnakaitse autoritaarsetes ühiskondades"
https://doi.org/10.7592/methis.v24i30.22109
IN HUNGARIAN:
KORALL (2021) 22(83) 144-162.
"Az idegenforgalom környezettörténete a hidegháborús Magyarországon és Jugoszláviában"
https://korallfolyoirat.hu/djordjevski-and-palaz-idegenforgalom-kornyezettortenete/
IN FINNISH:
IDÄNTUTKIMUS (2020) 27(2) 17-28.
"Ympäristönsuojelu autoritaarisissa järjestelmissä"
IN TURKISH:
EKOIQ 7.7.2023
"Küresel Çevre Krizi ve Otoriter Rejimlerde Çevrenin Korunması"
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