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)