Impact of the Czech-Polish intergovernmental Turów dispute on mental distance and cross-border integration: Avoiding problems, or neighbours?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09697764241244683" target="_blank" >10.1177/09697764241244683</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Impact of the Czech-Polish intergovernmental Turów dispute on mental distance and cross-border integration: Avoiding problems, or neighbours?
Original language description
The Turów lignite coalmine, a decisive economic actor and employer, is situated on the Polish side of the trilateral Euroregion Neisse–Nysa–Nisa. The decision to continue coal mining until 2044 was disputed, as Czech authorities raised concerns about its negative impact on the environment. This resulted in a Czech–Polish dispute that ended with an intergovernmental agreement in February 2022. However, during the 2 years preceding the conflict resolution, the dispute caused controversy in this part of the borderland, which was considered well-integrated thanks to the activities of the Euroregion Neisse–Nysa–Nisa created in 1991. Thus, we examine the impact of this dispute on mental distance in this part of the borderland and the resilience of cross-border integration through interviews with local stakeholders and surveys with local inhabitants. Our research reveals that the impact of the dispute on cross-border integration was twofold: whereas already cooperating actors tended to avoid the controversy with partners from the other side of the border, surveyed local citizens tended to avoid crossing borders to their neighbouring region. We conclude that mutual trust constantly promoted by facilitating various forms of cross-border connections and interactions is a significant precondition for lasting cross-border partnerships and networks, not only in the region under study.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50701 - Cultural and economic geography
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
EUROPEAN URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES
ISSN
0969-7764
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
32
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
76-90
UT code for WoS article
001202632200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85191014182