ABSTRACT
Most of the findings of the survey of local governments are presented by settlement type since as explained local governments of different types had a greater or lesser number of responsibilities. This chapter presents the findings of the survey: the commitment to environmental policy at a local government level, local economic policy measures, local environmental problems, local government environmental measures, and the perceived effectiveness of environmental measures. If local environmental policy is a significant local government activity one would expect adequate resources to be committed to it and an explicit policy to exist. Having a person with specific environmental responsibilities proved to be very strongly correlated with settlement type. The chapter examines what kinds of environmental policy measure local governments planned to undertake in response to 'these environmental problems. The decentralization of local government in Hungary was a deliberate attempt to escape from the centralism of the former system and was an essential aspect of the democratization process.
