Dr. István Valánszki - MATE Research
Overview
Dr. István Valánszki, PhD is a landscape architect, associate professor, head of department at the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Department of Landscape Protection and Reclamation. His research mainly focuses on PPGIS, cultural ecosystem services, and landscape evaluation. He also has international research and work experience (e.g. University of Copenhagen, University of Massachusetts, James Hutton Institute, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, University of Technology, Vienna). In addition to national awards, in 2017 he received the “Outstanding Doctoral Student 2017” award of the ECLAS (European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools).
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Publications
Cultural ecosystem services
Space Compositional Aspects Regarding the Importance of Trees in the Urban Landscape
OVERVIEW ANALYSIS OF CULTURAL ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: MAPPING INDICATORS AND CATEGORIES CLASSIFICATION
Participatory mapping (PPGIS)
Assessing Relations between Cultural Ecosystem Services, Physical Landscape Features and Accessibility in Central-Eastern Europe: A PPGIS Empirical Study from Hungary
Examination of the application of ppGIS method for identification of landscape values
Green infrastructure
Spatial Trends of Grassland Changes Based on Hungarian Local Studies After 1990 with a Macro-Regional Perspective
Parallel development of green infrastructure and sustainable tourism - Case studies from Hungary
A study of developing a spatial entity greenway in the case of Irbid City - Jordan
Landscape evaluation
Land use and land cover changes in post-socialist countries: Some observations from Hungary and Poland
Towards three decades of spatial development transformation in two contrasting post-Soviet cities—Kraków and Budapest
What do we know about decision support systems for landscape and environmental management? A review and expert survey within EU research projects
Projects
Towards the Open Landscape Academy
Open Landscape Academy is a three part project focusing on democratic landscape transformation, launching in April 2023, including:
- Democratic Landscape Transformation, a semester-long international online educational seminar
- Intensive summer onsite
- Local Living Labs at several European sites
https://ledwiki.hfwu.de/index.php?title=Towards_the_Open_Landscape_Academy
InnoLAND
InnoLAND aims to facilitate transparency and recognition of skills and qualifications of landscape architecture professionals in the EU by developing the Common Training Framework for the Profession along with relevant tools to support its implementation.
https://iflaeurope.eu/index.php/site/general/innoland-project
ConnectGREEN
Through the ConnectGREEN project, partners from different countries and various fields of activity joined forces to increase the capacity of ecological corridors identification and management, and to overcome the conflict between infrastructure development and wildlife conservation.
