ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how environmental issues have been considered and treated in Hungary, although coverage of tangible policy responses is omitted. The emergence of concern with acidification in Hungary has been a relatively phenomenon. The most official estimates of the severity of the air pollution challenge in Hungary conclude that no large regions of polluted air remain in the country. Air pollution has obvious and widely-noted impacts in Hungary. As a consequence of the evidence, Hungary's obligations under the Long Range Trans-boundary Air Pollution , and the country's status as associate member of the European Union, the nation has committed itself formally to deal with these international dimensions of the acidification problem. The Hungarian executives and managers differ somewhat from their counterparts elsewhere on the most appropriate means of addressing environmental issues that affect their companies. Relatively low investment in the environment has been reflected in the modest ratio of environmental inputs in the economy to the gross domestic product.
