CURRICULUM VITAE

Imre Nagy

Dr. Imre Nagy C. Sci.
head of department, senior research fellow

Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Centre for Regional Studies, Alföld Institute
Bekescsaba Department

H-5601 Békéscsaba P.O. Box 185.
Phone/fax: (+36 66) 441 801, (+36) 209831466
E-mail: nagyi@rkk.hu

Personal information

Place of birth: Novi Sad/Yugoslavia

Nationality: Hungarian

Date of birth: September 3th 1954

Education:

1994 C. Sc. Hungarian Academy of Sciences

1990 PhD The Faculty of Geography, University of Belgrade, Title of thesis: „Evaluation of the Urban Environment of town Verbász".

1983 Postgraduate Education at Institute of Regional Geography Lóránd Eötvös University of Budapest, relating the theme: „Environmental solutions based on Voivodina's experiences’’

1983 Masters Degree (M. A.) Faculty of Geography, University of Belgrade, Title of thesis: “Environmental problems of the Great Batchca Channel”.

1978 Graduated from University of Novi Sad, Institute of Geography, University of Novi Sad Diploma in social geography (B. A.)

Employment

2000 – head of department

1994–2000 Senior Research fellow in the Centre for Regional Studies of Hungarian Academy of Sciences

1993–1994 Research Assistant

1980–1992 Grammar School

1977–1980 Secondary School

Key qualifications

- Expert in the field of urban environmental planning

- Expert in the field of cross-border and interregional co-operation.

- Expert in the field of cross-border co-operation in field of environmental management.

Teaching activity

lecturer – Settlement Ecology, Department of Social Geography and Urban Sciences Janus Pannonius University, 1994/95

lecturer – Economical Geography of World - College of Foreign Trade of 1994/95

lecturer – Environmental Protection - Training College “Kőrösi Csoma Sándor” Békéscsaba , 1997

lecturer – Urban Ecology - Department of Environment and Water Management of the Szarvas Faculty of the University of Agriculture of Debrecen 1997–

Other skills

Education and training in environmental protection and in regional environmental planning,
Expert in training of INTERREG IIIA – Neighbour programs: Slovakia-Ukraine–Hungary and Hungary–Romania–Serbia/Montenegro;
Leader of theinternational experts group: Danube–Cris–Mures–Tisza Eurorgion Strategy

Membership

Hungarian Geographical Society 1995–,

Hungarian Urban Society 1994–,

Serb Geographical Society 1975–

Serb Matica, Novi Sad, research fellow 1995–

Member of the edition board of Bulletin de la Societé Serbe de Geography, Belgrade

Research stays abroad

1994 Toronto, Canadian Urban Institute

1995 München–Ismanning, Boden und Deponienbetrieb GMBH

1995 India, Indian Academy of Sciences New Delhi, Banaras Hindu university Dept. of Geography, Chandigarh Punjab University Dept. of Geography

1996 Ireland, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin

1997 Finland, Joensuu

1997 Germany (Technical University of Munich Dept. of Geography)

1998 Israel, Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva Ben Gurion University Dept. of Geography

1999 San Diego CA, USA San Diego State University, Institute for Regional Studies

2000 Prague, Environmental Department Magistrat of Prague

2000 Calcutta, Centre for built environment

2002 China, University Sinnica, Nanking, Bejing

2004 Egypt, Cairo University, Ismailia University

2005 Prague, Environmental Department Magistrat of Prague

Language proficiency

Mother tongue: Hungarian

Good knowledge: Serb, Croatian,

Working knowledge: English, German

Publications

I. Nadj Pollution of the Big Bachca Channel at the section: Crvenka–Becej , Bulletin de la Societe Serbe de Geography, LXV/2. Belgrade, 1985. pp. 43–52.

I. Nadj Geographic Aspects of Prognostic in the Environment Preserving, XII th. Congress of Yugoslav Geographer, Novi Sad, 1987, pp. 235–238.

Nadj Water quality of the River Jegricka, Bulletin de la Societe Serbe de Geography, LXX/1. Beograd, 1990, pp: 73–75.

I. Nagy Environmental condition and possibility of development in villages of south-Batchca, In: Out of the crises / ed. by Kovács Teréz, II. Falukonferencia, MTA RKK, Pécs, 1993, pp. 191–195.

I. Nagy Geography Teaching Roll in the Interdisciplinary Approach to Environmental Adaptation, Zbornik radova Geografskog Fakulteta Univerziteta u Beogradu, N0. XLII/93, 102–105. p.

I. Nagy The environmental models of the different types of the settlements in the lowlands of Vojvodina (A Vajdaság síkvidéki településformáinak környezetmodelljei), Létünk 1993/1, Újvidék, 89–100. p.

I. Nagy Environment development opportunities in Szekszárd. In: Szekszárd városfejlesztési koncepciója, MTA RKK, Pécs, 1993. (Manuscript)

J.Tímár – I. Nagy Recent Changes and Environmental Problems in Rural–Urban Fringes in the Great Hungarian Plain, Environment, Sustainable Development and Human Health, International Seminar February 11–15, 1995, Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Banaras Hindu University Varanasi, India, pp. 177.

I. Nagy Analysis of urban environmental spatial conflicts in Szolnok, In: Tér és Társadalom, JUSS és MTA RKK ATI Szolnoki Társadalomkutató Csoportja, 1995. pp. 69–73.

I. Nagy (1996). A Space informatics-based Evaluation of the Urban Environmental Problems of Towns, Environmental Development and Management (Strategies Policies) KUMAUN UNIVERSITY Naini TalU.P., India

I. Nagy Spatial characteristics of environmental friendly infrastructure in Békés county, Körösi Tanulmányok, 1996, Békéscsaba, pp. 276–297.

I. Nagy Inclination of villages in Mid–Tisza Region to innovation in environment protection, IV. Falukonferencia (Ed.: T. Kovács), MTA RKK Pécs, 1997, pp. 220–225.

I. Nagy I. Tózsa: Decision functions for studies on settlement environments in the Great Hungarian Plain, Földrajzi Értesítő XLVI. évf. 1998. 1–2. füzet, pp. 58–70.

I. Nagy Contribution to the Urban Environmental Survey in the Hungarian Plain, Alföldi Tanulmányok, (Ed: J. Rakonczai–J.Timár), 1997, pp. 51– 64.

Á. Pál– I.Nagy (1998) Socio–economic Processes in the Hungarian– Yugoslavian Border Zone, Curtains of Iron and Gold (Heiki Eskalinnen, Jukka Okksa, Marku Tikkalainen eds.), Ashgate Publishing Ltd. Pp. 229–241.

Nagy, I. (1998) Ruzsa, Rural Survival Strategies in Transitional Countries, An introdution to the comparative study of localaities in Nortwestern Russia and Hungary, Joensuu, University of Joensuu, Karajalan Institute. Working Papers N0 2. Pp. 50-51.

I., Nagy –I., Tózsa (1999) A geographical survey of the urban environmental problems of Budapest (Directions of the development), Problems of Megacities: Social Inequlities, Environmental Risk and Urban Guvernance (A.Guillermo Aguillar–I. Escamilla eds.). Institute of Geography UNAM-IGU, Mexico City, pp. 239–248.

Pál, Á. and I. Nagy (1999) “The Economic Relationship of the Hungarian-Romanian Border Zone” Pp. 369–388 in Danube–Cris–Mures–Tisa Euroregion Geoeconomical Space of Sustanable development, Catalin Gruia et al, eds. West University of Timisoara-University of Novi Sad–“Jozsef Attila” University of Szeged-University of Tübingen: Timisoara-Novi Sad-Szeged-Tübingen

Á. Pál, - L. Csordás - Nagy, I. (2000) Transformation of Rural Areas: The Changing Survival Strategies of The Border Settlement of Ruzsa, Transnational Survival Strategies of Peripheral Resource Communities in Hungary and North Western Russia (Eira Varis ed.), Helsinki, Finish Institute for Russian and East European Studies 109–119.o.

I., Nagy (2001)– Cross Border Co-operation of the Southern Great Hungarian Plain’s Border Region, Discussion Papers. Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Regional Studies, Pécs p. 78.

I. Nađ (2002) Mogucnosti bileteteralnog prostornog planiranja u Jugoslovensko–madjarskom pogranicnom geoprostoru. (Bilateral possibilities in phisical planning in the Yugoslavian-Hungarian border region.) Zbornik Radova" Problemi revitalizacije pogranicnih krajeva Jugoslavije i Republike Srpske, Beograd, Geografski fakultet, pp. 155–162.

Nagy I. I (2002) –A Duna és a Duna mente komplex regionális értékelése a folyó horvátországi és jugoszláviai szakaszán. (Complex regional evaluation of Danube and the riverside region in Croatia and Yugoslavia. Problems of regional development in the Danube valley in Hungary). A Magyarországi Duna-völgy Területfejlesztési Kérdései. (Glatz F. ed) Volume I. Budapest MTA, pp. 151–171.

I., Nagy et al. (2000) Hungary’ Seven Border Regions – Journal of Borderland Studies, 2000 Spring J.Blatter – N. Clement (eds.) San Diego, San Diego State University Institute for Regional Studies. Pp: 221–244

Nagy, I., (2001) Environmental Problems of the Seven Hungarian Border Regions – Cooperation, Environment, and Sustainability in Border Regions (Ed. by P. Ganster), San Diego State University Press, Institute for Regional Studies o the Californias, 203–222. o.

Dingsdale – Nagy, I. – Gy. Perczel – (2002) Hungary. Environmental Problems of East Central Europe (Second Edition) F. W. Carter and D. Turnock (Eds.). ROUTLEDGE, London, New York. Pp. 157–182.

Nagy, I. (2002) – The DKMT-Euroregion and its role in the development of Hungarian–Yugoslavian–Romanian triple Border Zone relations Regions No. 16. (ISCOMET) MARIBOR. Pp.79–92.

Nagy, I.–Duray, B. Possibilities of the Environmental co-operation in the Border Regions of Hungary after the EU-accession. In: Warsaw Regional Forum 2004. Central and Easter Europe: Changing Spatial Patterns of Human Activity. Warsaw, 08-09 October 2004. Programme, Abstracts and Excursion Information. Prepared by: K. Czapiewski and T. Komornicki. Warsaw: Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Scienses, 2004. 17. p.

Nagy, I. (2005) Opportunities for Envronmental Protection Developments in the South Eastern Border Regions. Hungarian Spaces and Places. Paterns of Transition (Eds. Gy. Barta, É. G., Fekete, I. K. Szörényiné, J. Timár). Centre For Regional Studies, Pécs, Pp. 579–595.

Contract projects

Nagy (1994) Methodical guide for local governments, aiming air quality protection required by criteria for implementing new industry. Manuscript. Ministry of Environment an Regional Development

I. Nagy (1996) Environmental aspects of Urbanisation Process in Agrarian Towns of the Great Hungarian Plain, Central European University, Prague

Nagy (1996) Principles of an innovation oriented development based on an environment friendly infrastructure for the small towns in the Alföld. OKTK research project

Regional Development Concept Plan of Békés County – Environmental and water management team leader 1997

Regional Development Concept Plan of Csongrád County – Environmental and water management team leader 1999

Regional Development Strategic Programme of the South Alföld Region – Environmental and water management team leader 1998

Regional Development Strategic Programme of Békés Micro-region – Environmental and water management team leader 1998

Economic Development Concept Plan of Orosháza Micro-region – Project leader 2000

Regional Development Programme of Csongrád County – Environmental and water management team leader 1998

South-Alföld agricultural and rural development strategic programme (SAPARD) - Author of environmental and water management chapters 1999

Békés County agricultural and rural development strategic programme (SAPARD) - Author of environmental and water management chapters 1998

Orosháza micro-region agricultural and rural development strategic programme (SAPARD) - Author of environmental and water management chapters 1999-2000

Regional Development Concept Plan and Programme of the Hungarian-Romanian Border Region. – Author of environmental chapters) PHARE –ZZ 9622-01-01 2000

Nagy I. (2002) – Environmental Issues of Central Eastern European Countries in the Period of Transition – manuscript

Spatial organisation of Békés megye. Békés Megyei Önkormányzat megbízásából, 1996.

The possible directions of economy development in the South–Békés microregion

Regional development conception for Csongrád county. (Témavezető: Timár J. és Velkey G.) Csongrád megyei Önkormányzat Területfejlesztési Tanácsa megbízásából, 1998.

Regional development conception for South Alföld region (Témavezető: Timár J. és Velkey G.) DARFT KHT megbízásából, 1998.

SAPARD South Great Plain - Author of environmental and water management chapters

SAPARD Békés County - Author of environmental and water management chapters

SAPARD Orosháza Micro-region - Author of environmental and water management chapters