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Minsk and Budapest, the two capital cities. Selected studies of post-socialist urban geography and ecological problems of urban areas

Jeney, László and Karácsonyi, Dávid, eds. (2015) Minsk and Budapest, the two capital cities. Selected studies of post-socialist urban geography and ecological problems of urban areas. Gazdaságföldrajzi szakkönyvek . Department of Economic Geography and Futures Studies, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest - Minsk. . ISBN 978-963-503-591-5

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Abstract

The official cooperation between the Hungarian and the Belarusian geography began to be outlined in a sunny afternoon of June 2010 in the Minsk building of the Geographic Faculty of the Belarusian State University, four years ago. Then we reviewed the potential frames of cooperation with Professor Ekaterina Antipova. It was supported by the academican Károly Kocsis, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, director of the Geographical Research Institute, and we could also win the support of the dean Ivan Pirozhnik and the academician Vladimir Loginov from the Belarusian State University and the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, respectively. This informal cooperation became official in the autumn of 2010 in the frame of the Academic Mobility Agreement Project between the Hungarian and the Belarusian academies of sciences. Since then several publications have appeared about Hungary and Belarus in the geographic journals of both countries, however, this is the first, long awaited, significant common publication. Besides the project-based co-operations like e. g. the EastMig (www.eastmig.mtafki.hu) and the ReSEP-CEE (www.mtafki.hu/ReSEP_CEE_Be.html) supported by the Visegrad Fund, a vivid student exchange program was also launched from the autumn of 2010 between the Geographic Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Geographic Faculty of the Belarusian State University with the scholarship program of the Visegrad Fund. Later the Department of Economic Geography of the Corvinus University of Budapest, headed by István Tózsa became also an active partner of the cooperation. The publishing expenses of this book are also fully financed by the Department of Economic Geography.

Item Type:Book
Series Name:Gazdaságföldrajzi szakkönyvek
Divisions:Faculty of Business Administration > Institute for Environmental Science > Economic Geography and Futures Studies Department
Subjects:Geography
Commerce and tourism
Funders:International Visegrad Fund, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Projects:Scientific Preparation of Book-Atlas "Belarus in Maps"
ID Code:1968
Deposited By: Ádám Hoffmann
Deposited On:16 Jun 2015 13:57
Last Modified:18 Jun 2015 09:58

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