Bihari-Horváth László (szerk.): Legelőpuszták, szőlőskertek, tanyavilágok - A Bocskai István Múzeum Közleményei 1. (Hajdúszoboszló, 2016)
VIII. A kötet rövid összefoglalói
their lands were parceled out and sold. The new owners broke these fields and established farmsteads. In consequence of more and more intensive use of the fields a considerable part of woodland was destroyed. The change of vegetation resulted the motion of sand which made the cultivation of poor-quality soil more difficult. After the socialist reorganization of the economy, the possibilities of using the fields by the farmsteads had been narrowed down and the population of these has started to migrate. After the democratic transformation the farmsteads were replaced by forestries and nowadays there is also afforestation in progress. So we can come to the conclusion that the way of farming in the sandy areas of northern Bihar region was an important work shaping the environment and was not favourable to the ecological balance of this region at all, although it ensured that a large community had enough to live on. This balance was restored by the ending of the farmsteads and the establishing of forestries. The micro- and macroeconomical phenomena examined in the course of my research are valid in the ecological system of northern Bihar region. In this system are closely linked the function of nature, the collected knowledge on the nature, and the strategy of utilizing the environment based on this are closely linked. This system can be exemined only with a holistic methodology and within interdisciplinar frames and it is not understandable without the knowledge of historical and environmental background. By presenting these as well, I wished to point out that the ecological factors can limit and offer possibilities but the human decision making coded in culture and guided by interests specifies the order of utilizing the environment. 183
