SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

"The history of environmental Turanism in the Pannonian basin in the early twentieth century" Journal of Historical Geography (2025) 90(December), 49-59.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.001 

Pál, V., J., Djordjevski. (2025) The Enchanted Dollar Bill’: The Environmental History of Socialist Tourism in Hungary and Yugoslavia. Environment and History OnlineFirst. 

https://doi.org/10.3828/whpeh.63861480327341

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Bruno, A.; Pal, V. “Socialist Environmental Holism in the Soviet Arctic and the Plains of Hungary” Ab Imperio (2024) 25 (2): 119-146.

https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936958

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“The Second Hungarian Conquest of the Carpathian Basin: Scientific Discourses of Ecological Control and Crisis in the Eastern Half of the Habsburg Empire during the Nineteenth Century” Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 50–70.

https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10910303

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“Trouble with the Bottle: Beverage Containers and the Widening Waste Crisis in Socialist Hungary” Journal of Contemporary History (2024) 59(2), 293-312.

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https://doi.org/10.1177/00220094231225385

Borowy, I., Pal, V., & Zimring, C.. "Introduction: The Waste of Conflict. The Conflicts of Waste" Journal of Contemporary History, (2024)  59(2), 223-233. 

https://doi.org/10.1177/00220094241234582

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"Toward Socialist Environmentalism? Scientists and Environmental Change in Modern Hungary" Environment and History. (2024)29 (2), 239–259

https://doi.org/10.3197/096734021X16076828553395

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"Like Industrious Bees. Paper Waste and Recycling in Communist Hungary, 1950-1990" Environmental History (2023)28 (2), 335-360.

https://doi.org/10.1086/723787

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"Modernization by the State and its Ecological Consequences in East-Central Europe" Historica (2022)14 (1), 1-6.

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https://historica.osu.eu/archive/2023/1/

"Keskkonnakaitse autoritaarsetes ühiskondades". METHIS Studia Humaniora Estonica (2022) 24(2), 117-131.

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https://doi.org/10.7592/methis.v24i30.22109

"Illiberal Environmentalism? The Case of Contemporary Hungary” Environmental History 27(4), 649-656.

 https://doi.org/10.1086/721414 

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Pál, V., & Perez, L. V. "Environmental protection under authoritarian regimes in cold war Chile and Hungary". Global Environment, (2021)14 (2), 310-334. 

 https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2021.140204 

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Boadu, J., Pál, V.,Continuities of Dependence. Hydropower and Modernisation in Twentieth-Century Ghana ICON (2020) 25( 2), 29-44.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26983753

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Laakkonen, S., Pál, V., & Tucker, R. The Cold War and environmental history: complementary fields. Cold War History, (2016)16( 4), 377-394. 

 https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2016.1248544

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Other Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Pál, V. (2023). Orbán’s View on Nature The State and its Environment in Modern Hungary. CBEES Annual State of the Region Report. 2022/2023, 144-151. 

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https://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1746330/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Pál, V., Djordjevski, J. "Az idegenforgalom környezettörténete a hidegháborús Magyarországon és Jugoszláviában." Korall, 2021(84), 144-162.

https://epa.oszk.hu/00400/00414/00075/pdf/EPA00414_korall_2021_84_144-162.pdf

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 Pál, V., "Ympäristönsuojelu autoritaarisissa järjestelmissä" Idäntutkimus Finnish Journal for Russian and Eastern European Studies (2020) 27(2), 17-28.

 https://doi.org/10.33345/idantutkimus.99239 

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Pál, V., Inal, O.  A Story of Two Parks: Historical Roots of Environmentalism under Authoritarian Regimes in Twenty-First Century Europe. Arcadia (2019)22, without page numbers.

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https://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/story-two-parks-historical-roots-environmentalism-under-authoritarian-regimes-twenty-first

Technology and the Environment in Twentieth Century Hungary Forum Historiae (2017)11 (1), 128-140.

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https://www.forumhistoriae.sk/en/clanok/heavy-industry-and-its-environmental-impact-northern-hungary-between-1950-and-1980

"The environmental impact of extensive growth in Western–and East-Central Europe between 1850 and 1960". New Europe College Yearbook, (2016)15 (1), 231-258.

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https://nec.ro/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Viktor-PAL.pdf

Pál, V., Korjonen-Kuusipuro, K., & von Hardenberg, W. G. "La storia ambientale nell’era dei problemi ecologici globali." Storia e Futuro, (2009)20.

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"The city of steel, the age of silence: Problems of water and inaction in communist Hungary 1945–1990." Tekniikan Waiheita 24(3), 12-22.

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https://journal.fi/tekniikanwaiheita/article/view/63818