With coal forever? Conflicted attitudes of residents in coal mining areas in the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland to coal phase-out

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15310/25:73628556

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105476" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105476</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105476" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105476</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

With coal forever? Conflicted attitudes of residents in coal mining areas in the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland to coal phase-out

Original language description

The paper presents results of an international comparative survey with local communities living in three coal mining areas in the Czech Republic, Germany, and Poland. The survey attempted to answer the questions to what extent do the perceptions of negative impacts and threats of coal mining, the attitudes towards coal mining and preferences for the pace of coal phase-out differ between the study areas and which factors significantly affect them. The survey focused on residents living in municipalities near active open-cast mines, who have personal experience with both the impacts of mining on the living environment and the effects of the closure of mines on the socio-economic situation in their regions. We found out a high degree of variance in perceptions and attitudes between areas but also within areas (between municipalities and specific groups of people). The results show that residents in coal mining areas hold complex and conflicted attitudes towards coal which are affected by specific geographical conditions, the extent of landscape impacts, and people&apos;s relationships with places, communities, and the coal industry. The significant predictors of attitudes to coal proved to be perceptions of negative environmental impacts of mining, work relationship with coal industry, age, and gender, however, these factors have different significance in various local contexts. With this paper we offer a comparative local-level approach to the just transition as a process that is far from disembodied but instead is tied to specific landscapes and places.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA23-07382S" target="_blank" >GA23-07382S: Accumulating Environmental Injustices and the Emergence of Climate Vulnerability in Central-European Coal Regions: Socio-Spatial Perspectives</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Resources Policy

ISSN

0301-4207

e-ISSN

1873-7641

Volume of the periodical

101

Issue of the periodical within the volume

February

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

105476

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85215853598