Economic Reforms and Environmental Protection in Hungary the 1960s

Abstract

In this chapter Pál explains how did the communists react to mounting environmental problems in Hungary in the 1960s. He explains the major elements of environmental crisis nationally and in the industrial region of Borsod Basin. There, the use of resources accelerated to a critical level causing water shortage and environmental pollution on a dramatic scale the 1960s. Pál explains how economic reforms were used to modernize the technological basis of the Kádár regime in the 1960s. He analyzes how the environmental and economic performances of the state-socialist system were intertwined.