Legal Aspects of Eco-Villages
Legal Aspects of Eco-Villages

Author(s): Orsolya Bányai
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Geography, Regional studies, Environmental Geography, Law on Economics, EU-Legislation
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: sustainable communities;eco-villages
Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I am going to analyse how much the current legal environment impedes or supports the establishment and maintenance of eco-villages in a Central European country, specifically Hungary. Although my analysis builds mostly upon Hungarian law, its main statements and consequences can be useful on an international level as well. It should be noted that according to the opinions of Hungarian social theorists (András Takács Sánta, Béla Borsos), who are deeply concerned with this topic, the Hungarian legal regulation does not relieve the situation of ecological communities at all. However, jurisprudence has not dealt – not even in a consciousness-raising way – with this problem until now. By this short paper, I would like to contribute to clearing up this debt (Fodor et al. 2016. 19–39). Below, I will firstly define the term eco-village. After that, I will make a short review of the situation regarding eco-villages in Hungary, and finally I will turn to their legal aspects.

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