Local resource-based development potential as reflected in waste management/circularity transition: Governance barriers in Hungary

Viktor Varjú; Cecília Mezei; Csaba Vér

doi:10.18778/1231-1952.27.2.06

Authors

Viktor Varjú KRTK Institute for Regional Studies, 22 Papnövelde Street, 7621, Pécs, Baranya county, Hungary https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3954-4518
Cecília Mezei KRTK Institute for Regional Studies, 22 Papnövelde Street, 7621, Pécs, Baranya county, Hungary https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2109-2293
Csaba Vér University of Pécs, Institute of Smart Technology and Engineering, Department of Environmental Engineering, Ifjúság útja 20, 7624 Magyarország Pécs, Hungary https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4750-9360

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1231-1952.27.2.06

Keywords:

waste management, governance, local resource-based development, sustainability transition, circular economy

Abstract

Waste as a local resource is a development opportunity for resource owners as waste may act as a foundation for bottom-up development at local levels. This paper presents the most important governance challenges that hamper a paradigmatic change in resource efficiency, a transition towards circular economy in the case of Pécs (Hungary). In recent years waste management infrastructure has evolved to provide resource potentials for recycling and reuse, this is a first step towards a (circularity) transition, however, the centralisation of power is hampering local transitions. The article concludes by arguing that in Pécs (Hungary), the transition towards a local resource-based development is impeded by a myriad of legal, institutional and administrative obstacles created by recent efforts towards institutionalisation.

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