Imre Kovách

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Head of Research Department

Research Professor (MTA TK SZI)

Department: Research Department for Social Integration and Inequalities
Academic Title: Correspondent Member of HAS, DSc.
Email: kovach.imre@tk.hun-ren.hu
Phone: +36 1 2246731, +36 1 2246700 / 5197
Building: B (Floor, room: 1.32.)
List of Publications (MTMT)

Research Interests

Rural studies, social inequalties and integration, elit studies, development and project sociology, power relations

Selected Publications

Bai Attila, Czibere Ibolya, Kovách Imre, Megyesi Boldizsár, Balogh Péter (2023): The monetary value of convenience and environmental features in residential heat energy consumption, in particular its social determinants. ENERGY STRATEGY REVIEWS 50 (101192) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2023.101192

Czibere, Ibolya – Kovách, Imre – Szukalski, Piotr – Starosta, Pawel (2021): Depopulation and Public Policies in Rural Central Europe. The Hungarian and Polish Cases. Ager: Revista de Estudios sobre Despoblacion y Desarrollo Rural, 33, 57-82.

Czibere, Ibolya – Kovách, Imre (2021): State Populism in Rural Hungary. Rural Sociology pp. 1–25.

Ibolya Czibere – Imre Kovách – Piotr Szukalski – Pawel Starosta (2021): Depopulation and Public Policies in Rural Central Europe. The Hungarian and Polish Cases. Ager: Revista de Estudios sobre Despoblacion y Desarrollo Rural, 33, 57-82.

Péter Balogh – Attila Bai – Ibolya Czibere – Imre Kovách – László Fodor – Ágnes Bujdos – Dénes Sulyok – Zoltán Gabnai – Zoltán Birkner (2021): Economic and Social Barriers of Precision Farming in Hungary, Agronomy, 11(6):1112.

Kovách Imre (szerk.) (2020): Integrációs mechanizmusok a magyar társadalomban. Budapest: MTA Társadalomtudományi Kutatóközpont – Argumentum

Kovách Imre (szerk.) (2020): Mobilitás és integráció a magyar társadalomban. Budapest: MTA Társadalomtudományi Kutatóközpont – Argumentum

Balogh, Péter; Bujdos, Ágnes; Czibere, Ibolya; Fodor, László; Gabnai, Zoltán Kovách, Imre; Nagy, János; Bai, Attila (2020): Main Motivational Factors of Farmers Adopting Precision Farming in Hungary. Agronomy, 10(4): 610.

Czibere, Ibolya; Kovách, Imre; Megyesi, Boldizsár (2020): Environmental Citizenship and Energy Efficiency in Four European Countries (Italy, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Hungary). Sustainability, 12(3): Paper 1154.

Megyesi Gergely Boldizsár, Csurgó Bernadett, Kovách Imre (2019): After a long march: the results of two decades of rural restructuring in Hungary. Eastern European Countryside, 24(1). 0,182. SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 2017: 0.205 Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2017: 0.665

Bernadett, Csurgó ; Imre, Kovách ; Boldizsár, Megyesi: After a Long March: the Results of Two Decadesof Rural Restructuring in Hungary. EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRYSIDE 24: 1 pp. 81-109. Paper: DOI: 10.2478/eec-2018-0005 29 p. (2018)

Alex Franklin, Kovách Imre, Csurgó Bernadett: Governing Social Innovation: Exploring the Role of ‘Discretionary Practice’ in the Negotiation of Shared Spaces of Community Food Growing, SOCIOLOGIA RURALIS 57:(4) pp. 439-458. (2017)

Kovách I, Kučerová E: The Social Context of Project Proliferation-The Rise of a Project Class. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND PLANNING 11:(3) pp. 203-220. (2009)

Csurgó B, Kovách I, Kucerova E: Knowledge, Power and Sustainability in Contemporary Rural Europe. SOCIOLOGIA RURALIS 48: pp. 292-312. (2008)

Kovách I, Kucerova E: The Project Class in Central Europe: The Czech and Hungarian Cases. SOCIOLOGIA RURALIS 46: pp. 3-21. (2006)

Kovách I: LEADER, New Social Order, and the Central- and East-European Countries. SOCIOLOGIA RURALIS 40:(2) pp. 181-189. (2000)