Enyedi György - Tózsa István (szerk.): The region. Regional development, policy, administration and e-government (Budapest, 2004)
Contributors
Professor Enyedi spent altogether seven years with teaching and doing research jobs abroad: among others, at the Université Paul Valéry (at Montpellier, France), at the Ecole Normale Superieur (in Paris, France), at the University of California (in Los Angeles, the USA), at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (in Washington D.C, the USA). He is the author of 22 scientific books, and has edited 22 volumes. The most remarkable ones include Geographical Types of Agriculture in Hungary that was published by the Akadémiai Kiadó in Hungarian in 1965; An Economic Geography by Westview Press, Boulder in 1976; Economic Geography of East Central Europe published by Közgazdasági és Jogi Kiadó in Hungarian in 1978; The Effect of Modern Agriculture on Rural Development by Westview Press, Boulder in 1984; Environmental Policies East and West by Taylor Graham, London in 1987; Budapest, a Central European Capital by Belhaven Press, London in 1992; Social Changes and Urban Restructuring in East and West by Akadémiai Kiadó in Hungarian. The total number of the scientific papers, reviews and publications of Professor Enyedi exceeds 500. In 2000, his numerous students, then all being well-known researchers, professors and representatives of the Hungarian regional research, published a volume in his honour, celebrating his 70th birthday. This outstanding scientific book, dedicated to Professor Enyedi, summarises and analyses the regional development processes and the effect of regional policies in the spatial structure of Hungary over the 10 years of transition. Professor Enyedi is regarded as a scientist with international reputation, who has established not only a network of academic institutions (CRS), but introduced a new way of scientific investigation and thinking in regional development, being referred to, as regional science. István Tózsa Having graduated from the József Attila University at Szeged (1979), he obtained a doctoral degree (1981) on remote sensing in geography and his Ph.D. (1996) on geographical information systems supporting urban environmental decision-making. From 1980 to 1997 he had worked for the Geographical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since 1998 he has been a professor at the National School of Public Administration that was integrated into the Budapest University of Economic Sciences in 2001.