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• Challenges in rural Hungary in the post-pandemic period: Perception of problems in „emerging settlements” of Sellye district

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  Lilla Szabó

  Tamás Ragadics

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  184

  The social problems of marginalised rural areas have intensified and transformed in recent years, particularly in the context of pandemic and economic crisis. In the countries of the Central and Eastern European region integration of marginalized areas is a major challenge. Unlike in the West, segregation and ghettoisation are problems of small rural settlements far from prosperous centres. In Hungarian countryside, the life of small villages, which are located far from economic centres and lack institutions, continues to be characterised by negative migration trends. In this article, we present the situation of seven small villages in southern Baranya, which are covered by the programme to help the 300 most disadvantageous Hungarian settlements to integration, in the light of the perception of problems of the population living there. Our survey aimed to explore the difficulties related to the pandemic and everyday life at local level. The assessment of subjective perceptions provided an opportunity to structure the disadvantaged rural population from a specific perspective and to analyse the problems of the characteristics of each group.

• Analysis of the space-based identity structure of rural elite in a region of Szeklerland

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  Ágnes Sárosi-Blága

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  56

  The new challenges of rural areas support expansion of the range of professional research and
  analysis focusing on local or regional identity structures as a quality factor of development.
  These new approaches are particularly important in the rural areas of the post-socialist
  countries, which are in the initial stages of the recognition of the potential inherent in the
  endogenous development paradigm. In Szeklerland, according to the new rural development
  paradigm, place-based identity could be a potential for the sustainable development. The aim
  of my paper is to present the major dimensions of the place-based identity structure in a microregion of Szeklerland.

• Positioning Opportunities for Rural Areas Through the Example of Ciuc-Basin

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  Kinga Katalin Székely

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  44

  Those development approaches that support social inclusion, exploitation of endogenous
  resources and community development may be an alternative, and can offer new opportunities
  for the economically and socially disadvantaged rural areas and for peripheral settlements
  that have missed the mainstream of development. The new rural paradigm, and the related
  regional development approaches, such as marketing-oriented settlement development, point to
  a new community-based trend, where places, local communities get a more important role, the
  function of local management changes and endogenous factors become the main resource. The
  communication activity and positioning practice becomes more important.