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24 — JUDIT FARKAS EH in Hungary Owing to the extremely broad theme and the interlacing of a wide variety of areas, it is extremely difficult to demarcate EH’s exact field of scholarship. There are diverse areas and profiles, mostly determined by the orientation and interest of the researchers and the institutions. It is therefore hard to conclude whether EH exists in Hungary, and if it does, what research and research teams can be included within its remit. Robert Balogh takes a close look at this question in his paper and cites works by Bertalan Andrásfalvy, Barna Éltes and János Géczi as examples that, in his opinion, embody the spirit of EH. Since at present there is in Hungary but a single research group that bears EH explicitly in its name (Environmental Humanities Research Group at Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the University of Pécs),”! we decided to list the research groups and institutions acting in the spirit of EH. Only a few of them are given a brief introduction here, as a detailed description of their activity can be read on their websites, the links to which can be found in the footnotes.” The first that deserves mention is the human ecology major at ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University). It is more than a course. It is an important professional workshop, the center of human ecology in Hungary. Its aim is to interpret sociocultural processes from an ecological perspective, to study the social dimension of environmental problems, and to explore the interactions between natural and social systems.” Its former leader Andras Takacs Santa contributed two papers to this volume (The Tragedy and Comedy of the Commons; Prophets and Local Ecocommunities). The EH perspective has been applied to the traditional ecological study by the Traditional Ecological Research Group of the ELKH Ecological Institute and by the closely connected “Momentum” Ethno-ecological Research Group of the ELKH Ethnographic Institute.” In their interpretation, the landscape and the human being constitute a single socio-ecological system. The institute aims to study the interplay between rural communities and their natural environment in the Carpathian Basin. (One of the papers in the book, by Anna Varga, is also devoted to ethno-ecological research). The ELTE Institute for Transactions between Humanity and the Environment approaches EH from the direction of environmental psychology.” The researchers use inter- and transdisciplinary paradigms to study the human being’s interaction with its environment which forms the context of its behavior at every moment. MOME - MAGI/SEED, the project of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, has as its objective a “campus” outside Budapest, “a future spiritual center https://btk.pte.hu/hu/pecsineprajz/human-kornyezettudomanyi-kutatocsoport-hkk I owe my thanks to Anna Varga for helping me gather the Hungarian examples. She has played a great role in establishing EH in Hungary. http://humanokologia.tatk.elte.hu/ https://ecolres.hu/kutatocsoportok/hagyomanyos-okologiai-tudas-kutatocsoport/ https://nti.abtk.hu/hu/kutatasok/jelenleg-futo-intezeti-projektjeink https://ekti.ppk.elte.hu/intezet
