Mindset Patterns of Newcomers to Organic Farming in Hungary

Abstract

Counterurbanization, rural in-migrant trend studies rarely focus on the individual decision-making process. This paper studies the mindset patterns and frames the decision to select organic farming as a next career. We aimed to deepen our understanding of the complex reasoning that motivates newcomers to choose organic farming on a personal level. Based on semi-structured interviews, we developed a questionnaire and collected data from the newcomer to organic farming community in Hungary. The responses were analyzed using: (1) factor analysis to assess the dimensionality of the factors and (2) knowledge-based expert system to identify the logical connections between the aspirations. Our conceptual model was developed based on if-then rules between the identified aspirations, which describe the mindset patterns of newcomers to organic farming.

Social Impact Assessment in Urban Security Management Projects: A Case Study from Pakistan

“…Public safety and security research aims to solve one of the most requisite and complex societal problems, as we call it. Therefore, to conclude upon the diverse range of involved disciplines and variables in this research, a transdisciplinary research approach and methodological consideration have been adopted (Costanza, 1991;Horlick-Jones & Sime, 2004;Max-Neef, 2005;Pohl, 2008;Popa, Guillermin, & Dedeurwaerdere, 2015;Polk, 2015;del Cerro Santamaría, 2015;Guimarães, Pohl, Bina, & Varanda, 2019) as cited in (Varga and Baracskai, 2021) p. 41) (Table 4) Using a comprehensive literature review, we could reach the impact assessment through multiple aspects related to urban safety and security management projects discussed in literature while narrowing down upon the subject cases ( (Althoff, 2012), (Avdeenko and Makarova, 2017), (Baracskai et al, 2017)). It is worth mentioning here in order to support the approach and methodology of this article.…”