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).

Research keywords:
cultural ecosystem services, participatory mapping (ppgis), green infrastructure, landscape evaluation

Publications


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.

https://www.ceeweb.org/project.php?id=5

Dr. István Valánszki
Institute of Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Garden Art
Campus address: H-1118 Budapest, Villányi rd. 29-43.
valanszki.istvan@uni-mate.hu
valanszki.istvan@uni-mate.hu

MTMT: 10034050
Scopus: 56046487200