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réKa horeczKi, áKoS Bodor, zolTán grünhuT, viKTor varjú:
environmenTal aTTiTudeS aT The mayor of rural area in Baranya
CErS HAS (MTA KrTK), Pécs; horeczki@rkk.hu
When asked to consider how important protecting the environment is to respondents personally, the view of Hungarian continues to be overwhelmingly positive. 95% of citizens questioned consider that protecting the environment is important to them personally. Only 5% do not regard it as important (EuroBarometer 416). In most socio-demographic groups there is relatively little deviation from the Hungarian average. The most common groups in this analysis are gender, age, education and difficulties paying bills. In our resent research we concentrate the urban-rural dichotomy therefore our question is the domicile can be an influencing element or grouping factor? First we introduce the environmental attitude of the Hungarian (Baranya county’s) rural inhabitants. We will analyse 163 settlements in Baranya county which below 1000 inhabitants. The mayor represent the majority opinion in this small villages.
Our research focuses specifically on environmental issues, with empirical examination of the distinctiveness of Baranya county’s settlement leaders environmental perspectives as contrasted with the general Hungarian population.
We will analyse the environmental attitudes of settlement leaders/mayors in the rural areas of Baranya county. We will compare the socio-cultural attributes (trust – generalized trust, institutional trust, educational level, sex, age) and environmental attitudes at the mayor of the small settlements. Our main questions:
how environmentally friend the settlement leader and this mentality how influence the environmentally project and development possibilities in the village; the local or the global environmental issues have been detected? According to preliminary results are: surprisingly low the environmentally friend mayor in the interviewed settlements. We are looking for the reasons for this in our presentation.
Acknowledgement: This study were supported by the OTKA (NK 116424) Interrelations between Trust and Governance at the Local Level and the RuRES (Renewable energy sources and energy efficiency in a function of rural development research) Interreg V-A Hungary-Croatia Co-operation Programme 2014-2020 HUHR/1601/3.1.1/0033 projects.
KEyworDS: environmental attitude, trust, Baranya county
