The Expansion of Coal Mining in the Depression Areas - A Way to Development?

0429335 - ÚGN 2015 RIV RO eng J - Journal Article
Martinát, Stanislav - Navrátil, J. - Dvořák, Petr - Klusáček, Petr - Kulla, M. - Kunc, J. - Havlíček, M.
The Expansion of Coal Mining in the Depression Areas - A Way to Development?
Human Geographies - Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography. Roč. 8, č. 1 (2014), s. 5-15. ISSN 1843-6587
R&D Projects: GA TA ČR(CZ) TD020259
Institutional support: RVO:68145535
Keywords : coal mining * perception of mining * Karviná * Orlová * Czech Republic
Subject RIV: DE - Earth Magnetism, Geodesy, Geography
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The coal has been mined in the Karviná area for more than 150 years. During the course of time mining areas were continuously extended at the expense of the settled areas. At the beginnings the mining was limited, but later, namely under conditions of centrally planned economy in the period between 1950s and 1980s, it was heavily intensified. Then, as a result of economic restructuring of the Czech Republic mining was reduced in the region to be re-developed in the last decade again. The expansion of coal mining has been continuously affecting the socio-economic structure of local population (huge working immigration, industrialisation, construction of mass housing for miners-miners dormitories, later housing estates etc.,displacement of settlements), surrounding landscape (subsidence of terrain, undermining, hydrological changes and formation of artificial lakes, occurrence of plenty of post-mining brownfields after the reduction of mining etc.), but also contemporary outward, image and socio-spatial structure of cities (dominance housing in housing estates,effects of communists spatial urban planning etc.).
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