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The curse of coal or peripherality? Energy transition and socioeconomic transformation of Czech coal-mining and post-mining regions

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68145535%3A_____%2F22%3A00567844" target="_blank" >RIV/68145535:_____/22:00567844 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="http://www.geonika.cz/EN/research/ENMGRClanky/10361-Volume_30_Issue_4_Paper_2.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.geonika.cz/EN/research/ENMGRClanky/10361-Volume_30_Issue_4_Paper_2.pdf</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2022-0016" target="_blank" >10.2478/mgr-2022-0016</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    The curse of coal or peripherality? Energy transition and socioeconomic transformation of Czech coal-mining and post-mining regions

  • Original language description

    New empirical evidence regarding theories of the resource curse and regional resilience in the context of energy transitions is presented in this article. Our analysis aimed to answer the questions of what the principal differences are between coal mining and other regions in the Czech Republic, and what are the determinants of population decline, unemployment and populism as some of the key indicators of socioeconomic transformation. Unlike most current European studies focusing on NUTS2 or NUTS3 regions, we deal with data for districts (LAU1). The analysis revealed that (in aggregate) coal mining and post-mining districts are worse off in terms of air quality, population vitality, labour market and social capital indicators. It would be problematic for policy implications to consider coal mining and post-mining districts as homogenous categories, however, since there are significant inter-group and intra-group differences in most indicators. Coal mining itself and its decline did not prove to be a direct determinant of population loss, unemployment, and support for populism. The factors significantly affecting these phenomena are geographical (peripherality, urbanisation, population density) and socioeconomic (education level, business activity). In this respect, a provocative question is offered: to what extent is it effective and sustainable to economically support coal mining regions in their existing industrial production structures and population scales, and whether the current processes of reterritorialization and depopulation can be considered a natural process. The fact that coal mining districts are at the forefront in the implementation of wind energy may be seen as positive, but it raises questions about spatial concentration, and the environmental justice of renewable energy development.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2022

  • Confidentiality

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

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Moravian Geographical Reports

  • ISSN

    1210-8812

  • e-ISSN

    1210-8812

  • Volume of the periodical

    30

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    4

  • Country of publishing house

    CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

  • Number of pages

    20

  • Pages from-to

    237-256

  • UT code for WoS article

    000909954100002

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85145981938