Magyarország és az Európai Unió regionális politikájának egyik fő célkitűzése, hogy a területi különbségek mérséklődjenek. Ebből kifolyólag az elmaradottság felszámolása, a térségek fejlesztése és felzárkóztatása a tagországok kiemelt stratégiai feladata. A regionális politika alapelvein nyugvó fejlesztési támogatások hatékony felhasználásával az egyes térségek visszafordíthatatlan leszakadását megakadályozhatja, illetve felzárkóztatását elősegítheti. Az egyes térségek közötti fejlettségi különbségek kialakulását a természeti adottságok mellett a társadalmi-gazdasági tényezők is befolyásolják. Hazánkban a rendszerváltozás, majd pedig az Európai Unióhoz történő csatlakozást követően jelentős területi fejlettségbeni különbségek alakultak ki. Ebből kifolyólag szükségessé válnak olyan elemzések, amelyek arra adnak választ, hogy milyen pozitív vagy negatív irányú változások következtek be az elmúlt években ezen a téren. Az elemzés Magyarország 20 területegységének (19 megye + Budapest) differenciált fejlődését és fejlettségi szintjének időbeni alakulását vizsgálja néhány aspektusból, amelyhez matematikai-statisztikai módszereket alkalmaztam, annak érdekében, hogy be tudjam mutatni az elmúlt évek változásának főbb tendenciáit.

Today, the forest is a key element of natural resources, the most complex natural (ecological) system in the continent. Because of its environmental impact, it is also a vital condition for healthy human life. In addition to its dominant role in regulating the quantity and quality of waters, the forest defines the nature of the landscape, preserves the richness of wildlife species and, being a renewable natural resource, continuously improves the state of the environment, while producing raw materials, energy sources and food. The present area and condition of forests have evolved over centuries of human activity. Due to their territorial fragmentation and the environmental damage forests are exposed to, we can only count on the indispensable survival, protective effect and products (yields) of forest communities if we treat them professionally and protect them from damaging effects, excessive use and stress, ensuring the diversity and appropriate harmony of their flora and fauna. The forest area of Hungary has grown dynamically over the last decades, however, in the European Union, we are one of the countries with less favourable indicators in this field. This study deals with the current issues of forest management in Hungary (forest area, forest land proportion, foresttree supply, afforestation, forest health, logging) focusing on the direction and extent of positive and negative changes in this field.

Agriculture is one of the economic sectors most directly affected by climate change. Agriculture must adapt to changed environmental and biological conditions in order to be effective. In extreme cases, certain areas must be completely set aside due to soil erosion or desertification. At the same time, agricultural activity is not only a victim of global climate change, but also one of the causes of it. In our work, we examine climate change in Hungary, projecting it into agriculture where extreme weather conditions are most noticeable. As a testing area, we chose the Hungarian Sand Dunes area because of the diversified agricultural production here and because this part of the country is most affected by climate change. The Homokhátság occupies a significant part of Hungary and has always been a major agricultural production center. The homestead farms established here define the image of the Hungarian Great Plain. Interviews with local farmers provide an overview of the local impacts of climate change and measures to mitigate the expected and future damages in the farms surveyed. In our research, we shed light on the causes, extent and consequences of climate change, especially in the areas of agriculture. We present climate impacts and measures to reduce them through secondary and primary research.

During the past few years the territorial issues of the location of industry came to the forefront both in Hungary and in the European Union. On certain areas of our country different industry structures evolved and various industries became dominant in each region. The actuality of the topic is enhanced by the fact that now adays has become an important key issue to rationalize the structure of industry. Therefore it is all the more necessary to do research in Hungary for the investigation of the structural changes of industry as well as to examine and analyse the correlations to ensure the developm ent of rational and efficient industrial structure on the given areas. This is also very important, because regional specialization is a quality- indicator category, which to a certain extent, refers to the development level of the region as well. In addition can be expected in modern market economies that the areas be specialised in the industrial sectors, where there are more favourable production conditions

We examined the effect of different foliar fertilization products on the yield and generative factors of maize in 2015. The experiment was set in three repetitions, random blocks on the area of Tangazdaság Ltd. in Hódmezővásárely. The soil of the experiment was meadow chernozem. Soil analysis data showed that it had had good nitrogen, and very good phosphor and potassium contents. During the experiment we applied two times foliar fertilization. The year 2015 was unfavourable for com production. In 2015 the amount of precipitation in the vegetative period of com was lower by 83.4 mm than the average. The average temperature showed a positive deviation compared to the average of several years. We processed the obtained data by single factor variant analysis. The yield of the control treatment was 6.39 t/ha, the yields of the foliar fertilization plots ranged between 6.5-7.5 t/ha. The foliar fertilization products increased the yield of com, but this difference was not significant. By the application of foliar fertilization the generative factors of com did not change significantly.