The Routledge Research Companion to Energy Geographies

0482399 - ÚGN 2018 RIV US eng M - Monography Chapter
Frantál, Bohumil
Under the curse of coal: Mined-out identity, environmental injustice and alternative futures for coal energy landscapes.
The Routledge Research Companion to Energy Geographies. 1. New York: Routledge - Taylor & Francis, 2017 - (Bouzarovski, S.; Pasqualetti, M.; Castán Broto, V.), s. 200-216. ISBN 978-131704357-7
Institutional support: RVO:68145535
Keywords : coal mining * resource curse * environmental injustice
OECD category: Cultural and economic geography
https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Research-Companion-to-Energy-Geographies/Bouzarovski-Pasqualetti-Broto/p/book/9781472464194

This chapter investigates and discusses long-term negative consequences of coal energy production on the regional level in terms of the resource curse and environmental injustice theories using an example of the Most region in the Czech Republic. Coal mining regions are characterized by worse health and quality of life of local population. People in coal affected regions are mostly in opposition to the expansion of coal mines and they support renewable energies. Coal mining regions have a higher rate of implementation of wind energy.
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