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In our paper we aim at analysing the social factors influencing energy use and energy efficiency in four different European countries, using the data from the PENNY research (Psychological social and financial barriers to energy efficiency&mdash ; Horizon 2020). As a part of the project, a survey was conducted in four European countries (Italy, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Hungary) to compare environmental self-identity, values and attitudes toward the energy use of European citizens. Previous research has examined the effect of a number of factors that influence individuals&rsquo ; energy efficiency, and attitudes to energy use. The novelty of our paper that presents four attitudes regarding energy use and environmental consciousness and compares them across four different regions of Europe. It analyses the differences between the four attitudes among the examined countries and tries to understand the factors explaining the differences using linear regression models of the most important socio-demographic variables. Finally, we present a typology of energy use attitudes: four groups, the members of which are basically characterised by essentially different attitudes regarding energy use. A better understanding of the diversity of energy use may assist in making more accurate policy decisions.

The paper seeks to understand the influences of development policy initiatives on territorial in-tegration. Through the analysis of Vértes Nature Park case study we aimed at exploring whether the territorial relationships of the stakeholders can be restructured by spatially based develop-ment. The aim of the paper is to present the mechanisms of territorial integration by a case study analysis of rural territorial development.Our findings show that the participation and involvement of stakeholders in rural develop-ment are determined by their role and status in the initiative, thus the initiator actors are the more active ones. The territorial relationships of stakeholders are increased and strengthened by the level of involvement in the activities of Vértes Nature Park. Nevertheless, the territorial closeness also affects the stakeholders' involvement. Csákvár and its surroundings have central position in this territorial relationship. The acceptance of the principals of the initiatives is also affected by the territorial closeness and it limits the contested development initiatives.

Tanulmányunkban elemezzük, hogy az élelmiszerfogyasztással kapcsolatos attitűdöket mennyiben határozza meg a fogyasztók kulturális tőkéje. Írásunkkal a Bourdieu és Veblen írásai nyomán megindult kutatásokhoz kapcsolódunk. A fogyasztáskutatások összefüggést találtak a kulturális fogyasztás és az élelmiszerfogyasztás között. Amellett érvelünk, hogy ez a mintázat Magyarországon is jellemző: a magas kulturális tőkéjű fogyasztók számára nagy jelentőséggel bír a magas minőségű, egészségtudatos és etikus élelmiszerfogyasztás. Egy 2018-as országos reprezentatív felmérés élelmiszerfogyasztási attitűdökre irányuló kérdései segítségével megvizsgáljuk, hogy Magyarországon fel lehet-e fedezni az élelmiszerrel kapcsolatos attitűdök között a társadalmi csoportok státusz szerinti elkülönülését szolgáló jellemzőket. Elemezzük, hogy az élelmiszerfogyasztás milyen aspektusai fontosak a magas kulturális tőkével rendelkező fogyasztóknak és mi az egyre inkább előtérbe kerülő etikus, tudatos fogyasztás szerepe a magas kulturális tőkéjű fogyasztók habitusában.

AbstractOur paper aims to explore the role of subsistence farming in Hungary by reviewing the literature, analyzing the primary data from a representative survey conducted in 2018 in Hungary and presenting two case‐studies. According to European and national‐level policy analysis, subsistence farming is a cornerstone of European agriculture, as it is a central element of a positive rural image. The paper is based on earlier theories on subsistence farming, and argues that it is worth analyzing the different factors influencing subsistence farming in order to better understand the motivations of participating in this kind of activity. The paper analyses the role of five different factors on subsistence farming: economic, societal, policy, discursive, and sustainability factors, and argues that, although all five factors are important in order to understand the phenomenon, economic and policy factors are the most important in this type of activity, while sustainability is almost imperceptible.

The report summarises the results of a Delphi study carried out in the Contracts2.0 project. The reports key findings: The report presents the detailed results of a Delphi survey conducted about innovative agri-environmental and climate measures among European decision-makers, experts, NGOs and farmers. The Delphi had three consecutive rounds between March 2021 and May 2022. The report presents the three rounds without contextualizing the results; a more detailed analysis of the Delphi research can be found as a public deliverable of the project: D4.3. Considering the characteristics of currently typical AECM contracts, respondents highlighted the need for more flexibility, improved monitoring and control mechanisms, and better regional differentiation (i.e.g tailor-made solutions which adapt to regional specificities both in terms of the environmental and the socio-economic context). The overly complicated nature of some of the existing schemes were mentioned as a limitation, based on which some respondents argued for simplified contracts. AECM is the most popular contract type combining the different elements the most popular contract would be an AECM using both result based and action based elements, with a medium long contract signed by individual farmers There is almost a consensus around seeing innovative contract elements in combination with mainstream contracts as top-ups. At the same time, it is clear that respondents are afraid of an increasing bureaucracy, thus they could imagine a re-design of the current AECM administration. Flexibility is a key -point in the adaptability at the EU level; more than half of the respondents think that the ideal model can be implemented at EU level if there is a possibility for regional adaptation; only a minority assumes that the ideal model cannot be implemented. Respondents see ideal contract types highly beneficial: there is a consensus that those will have a positive impact on biodiversity and ecosystem services, on European farmers' knowledge and attitudes ...

A helyi sajátosságok, értékek megjelenítése a vidékimázs és a helyi identitás megerősítése és fejlesztése egyre fontosabb kérdés a vidéki térségekben élők számára, mivel azok megjelennek a települések és helyi közösségek fejlesztési startégiáiban, de befolyásolják az adott térség idegenforgalomban, migrációs folyamatokban betöltött szerepét is. Napjainkban egyre hangsúlyosabb szerephez jut Magyarországon is vidékiség értelmezések vizsgálata, így ezzel párhuzamosan a vidékszociológiai kutatások egyre jelentősebb témájává is válik a kérdés. A tanulmány célja, hogy egy szisztematikus irodalmi áttekintés alapján feltárja, milyen módszerekkel vizsgálta az elmúlt két évtizedben a nemzetközi tudomány a tágan értelmezett vidékimázst és vidéki identitást. A dolgozat első felében a vidékimázs, vidékidill, vidékreprezentáció és vidéki identitás kifejezések megjelenését és elterjedését mutatjuk be a tudományos diskurzusban, majd pedig átfogó irodalmi áttekintés segítségével vizsgáljuk a fenti témákhoz kapcsolódó különböző módszertanok (kérdőíves, interjús, NLP, részvételi) elterjedtségét, és összevetjük a különböző módszertani megközelítések lehetséges korlátait és előnyeit.

AbstractSustainability, knowledge forms and rural development are the core concepts combined in this study to explore how different forms of knowledge manifest themselves in rural development and how their dynamics can contribute to rural sustainability. Based on a qualitative research process, we compare two individual livelihood strategies from rural Hungary, the case of a family farmer and a potter. We argue that scientific, local and managerial knowledge forms cannot be identified in pure forms in Hungarian rural initiatives. In the absence of a strong networking capacity, rural entrepreneurs replace knowledge‐sharing and community‐learning processes with individual knowledge‐gathering strategies. As a consequence, person‐bound, multifaceted knowledge sets are used in rural initiatives and are produced according to context; however, the absence of knowledge dynamics hinders actors in developing sustainable solutions. Thus, rural development policy should encourage interaction among different rural actors instead of aiming at providing better education for managerial knowledge.

AbstractThis article presents the results of an international comparative study on food self‐provisioning, an activity still widespread in the countries of the Global North. We collected the data in a sociological survey done in 2010 as a part of the household energy use research project GILDED. We selected a region with urban and rural areas as a case study in each of the five EU countries, including Scotland, the Netherlands, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. Our article raises two main research questions: (1) What is the level of food self‐provisioning in the regions? (2) Who participates in it? Additionally, we inquired into the motivations of self‐provisioners using the results of analyses of sociodemographic and food consumption habits for their interpretation. We found that the level of self‐provisioning varies considerably among the regions. Its share ranges from 13 percent in Dutch urban areas to 58 percent in German rural areas. The effects of some sociodemographic and geographic factors differ significantly among the countries. However, we can summarize that living in one's own property, living in a house or in a rural area, having a partner or children, being retired, or having a low income increases the probability of food self‐provisioning.

In this milestone report, we explain how we have developed public goods games to perform an exante assessment of novel collective contract models in the Contracts2.0 project. Workshops were conducted in Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, and Poland. The first data collection was completed in Germany, and an expert prediction survey was run in parallel to the public goods game with German farmers. The overall experiences from the workshops have been positive. The public goods game was met with great interest from stakeholders, albeit in all instances, there were concerns about the level of abstraction of the game. Another frequent concern was parallelism, i.e., the link between game results and real-world behaviour. We used 358 completed online responses from German farmers for an initial analysis. Farmers' behaviour in our study differed substantially from participants in the laboratory. Overall levels of cooperation among farmers were substantially higher than one would expect from previous laboratory studies. In addition, treatment effects were not in the expected direction. The only treatment that showed substantially larger contributions was to emphasize the social optimum of the game. Expert predictions were more in line with the literature from experimental laboratory studies than with the actual behaviour of farmers. Among the experts, those indicating good knowledge on the public goods game, predicted more accurately, whereas stated sector-specific knowledge (on agriculture, the common agricultural policy, or agri-environmental schemes) did not substantially improve predictions.