The book titled The Collaborative Economy in Action: European Perspectives is one of the important outcomes of the COST Action CA16121, From Sharing to Caring: Examining the Socio-Technical Aspects of the Collaborative Economy (short name: Sharing and Caring; sharingandcaring.eu) that was active...

Ambient assisted living (AAL) technologies are increasingly presented and sold as essential smart additions to daily life and home environments that will radically transform the healthcare and wellness markets of the future. An ethical approach and a thorough understanding of all ethics in...

In this position paper, we have used Alan Cooper's persona technique to illustrate the utility of audio- and video-based AAL technologies. Therefore, two primary examples of potential audio- and video-based AAL users, Anna and Irakli, serve as reference points for describing salient ethical,...

This paper describes small-scale experimental research (total N=160) implemented in Hungary in summer 2017 by TÁRKI, the Hungarian Social Research Centre. The research was based on a controlled field experimental design and examined the chances of ethnically different testers being offered...

Sustainability and employment are terms seldom used together. Especially when defining sustainability in the stricter sense of the word, delineating a world where strong sustainability is the norm, it is problematic to deduct which elements may compose sustainable employment. In the relevant...

It is well known that the world’s population is growing and more and more people want to live in cities. However, some towns, cities or urban areas are in the period of declining. Although it has been analysed quite a lot in western countries, in Hungary the decision-makers and planners still...

Az agroökológia eleinte interdiszciplináris tudományos megközelítése fokozatosan nyitott a fenntartható mezőgazdasági gyakorlatok, a hagyományos, helyi ökológiai tudás, a vetőmag- és élelem-önrendelkezésért küzdő nemzetközi parasztmozgalmak és civil szervezetek politikai...

Élelmiszer-önrendelkezés alatt azokat a mindennapi gyakorlatokat és politikai stratégiákat értjük, amelyek lehetővé teszik, hogy társadalmi és ökológiai szempontokat érvényesítve, demokratikus és a külső sokkoknak ellenálló módon szervezzük meg az élelmiszergazdaságot...

There is an increasing political interest in Hungary to relocalize food. A Policy Intervention for Food Relocalization Index is introduced to quantitatively reveal how rural development programme measures should be allocated efficiently to promote local food production. Results show that present...