Landscape – Soundscape – Waterscape Concept for an inter- and transdiscipli

János Bogárdi; Zoltán Mizsei; Gergely Tóth

doi:10.59258/hk.17076

János Bogárdi Institute of Advanced Studies (iASK), Chernel utca 14, Köszeg, 9730, Hungary https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4755-9015
Zoltán Mizsei Institute of Advanced Studies (iASK), Chernel utca 14, Köszeg, 9730, Hungary
Gergely Tóth University of Public Service, Faculty of Water Sciences, Department of Water and Environmental Policyp https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4201-1678

Keywords: Landscape, soundscape, waterscape, integrated management, energy-, food security nexus

Abstract

This paper argues that integrated resource management (both stocks and fluxes) must be embedded into a transdisciplinary context. Preliminary, yet essential debates, plans and formulation of aspirations need to be formulated with the active participation of legitimate stakeholders and affected citizens. This implies, that next to the key integration of land- and water resources management voices articulating local needs, expressing and protecting cultural values and social preferences are to be heard and understood.

The context of Landscape-Soundscape-Waterscape is recommended to serve as a conceptual model of dialogues to set consensus-based objectives and constraints for the detailed professional elaboration of development, restauration and protection plans for water-dominated landscapes and resource use. This multi-dimensional dialogue is even more important when several sectoral concerns are to be taken into a so called nexus consideration.

The trans- and interdisciplinary model framework of Landscape-Soundscape-Waterscape is proposed to be tested first in case studies where the spatial extent of most of the resource use and protection interactions correspond with the living space (or homescape) used, intimately known and loved by those whose “sounds” should be captured and considered for the sake of sustainable future.

Author Biographies

János Bogárdi , Institute of Advanced Studies (iASK), Chernel utca 14, Köszeg, 9730, Hungary

JÁNOS BOGÁRDI graduated from the Budapest University of Technology as civil engineer in 1969. In 1971, he obtained a postgraduate diploma in hydrology at the University of Padua (Italy). He earned his doctorate in engineering (Dr.-Ing.) at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany in 1979. He worked as an assistant at the Budapest University of Technology, Department of Water Management (1969-1971) and then at the University of Karlsruhe (1974-1979), where he was also a senior research associate between 1980-1983. He acted as a consultant for several years in Germany and Africa (between 1971-1973 and 1983-1985). Between 1985 and 1988, he was an associate professor at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT, Thailand). Between 1989 and 1995, he was chair professor at the University of Agriculture in Wageningen. From 1995 to 2003, he was a senior programme specialist of UNESCO in Paris and serving head of the Sustainable Water Management Section within the Division of Water Sciences. Between 2003 and 2009, he was the founding director of the Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) of the UN University in Bonn. Between 2007 and 2009, he was also ad interim the European Vice-Rector of UNU. From 2009 to 2012, he was the executive director of the international Global Water System Project (GWSP) within the Development Research Center (ZEF) of the University of Bonn. Since 2004, he has been a co-opted professor at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Bonn. Since 2012, he has been a senior fellow of ZEF. Since 2016, he has been a distinguished adjunct professor at AIT. Since 2017, he has been a scientific advisor at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Kőszeg (iASK), and from 2022 he is an honorary guest professor at the Universidad Autonóma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH) in Mexico. Since 2023 he is research professor of the Ludovika University of Public Service, Faculty of Water Sciences, Budapest. Author or co-author of more than 250 scientific publications. Awarded by several universities, mainly in Central Europe. Honorary Doctor (Dr.h.c.) of the Warsaw University of Agriculture (1996), Budapest University of Technology (1997) and Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. In 2008, he won the Cannes International Water Prize (Grand Prix des Lumières de l'Eau). In 2019 he received the golden diploma of Budapest University of Technology.

Zoltán Mizsei , Institute of Advanced Studies (iASK), Chernel utca 14, Köszeg, 9730, Hungary

ZOLTÁN MIZSEI graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music (Budapest) in the vocal teacher-faculty management and church music departments in 1995. He is the leading music researcher at iASK. He is also a docent professor of the Church Music Department at Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest. He earned his DLA degree in Church Music in 2004. In his research agenda at iASK he is the inventor of the ’Sounding City’ method which is a creative sound-identity formulating program of music teaching and -making, where musical heritage is combined with urban and natural soundscapes, music with architecture and literature, composition with improvization techniques.

Gergely Tóth , University of Public Service, Faculty of Water Sciences, Department of Water and Environmental Policyp

GERGELY TÓTH has an MSc in soil science from South China Agricultural University, an MSc in environmental sciences from the CEU / University of Manchester, a PhD in soil quality assessment from the University of Pannonia. He received the Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in land evaluation. He was professor and founding head of the Department of Soil Science and Environmental Informatics at the Georgikon Faculty of the University of Pannonia and scientific advisor at the Institute for Soil Sciences of HUN-REN. He worked for twelve years at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, responsible for development of soil quality indicators for the EU, furthermore, he was the scientific leader of the EU’s first unified soil survey program (LUCAS-Soil), which became the soil monitoring of the EU and coordinated the Sino-EU Panel of Land and Soil, the official body for dialogue between China and the EU on the subjects. Earlier he worked at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, was a PhD fellow at United Nations University, Institute of Advanced Studies and guest researcher at the Laboratory for Landscape Planning of the University of Tokyo. He is a member of the Board of Program Managers of the European Joint Programming SOIL and co-chair of the Research and Innovation Pillar of the European Soil Partnership (within the GSP of the United Nations), active in international working groups and research consortia.

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