Tag: mining regions

• June 11, 2026

  Beyond Hayek: Can Social Science Understand Dispersed Knowledge?

  Few schools of thought have been as influential in contemporary debates about markets, planning, and the role of the state as the Austrian School of Economics. Thinkers such as Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and Israel Kirzner developed a powerful critique of central planning that continues to shape discussions about public policy, economic…

• December 15, 2016

  European Coal Map (video)

  https://vimeo.com/138616562

• February 6, 2016

  Poverty in Appalachia coal mining region

  Appalachia (/ˌæpəˈlætʃə/ or /ˈæpəˈleɪtʃə/) is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York to northern Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia.[1] While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Canada to Cheaha Mountain in Alabama, the cultural region of Appalachia typically refers only to the central and…

• February 21, 2015

  Seenkompass Leipzig: a macro conversion from open-pit mines to lakes

  A total of 42 new lakes will be created by flooding closed open-pit mines and will create a seascape with about 174 km² water surface, especially in the south of Leipzig. The landscape change will have a very significant socieconomic impact on the region. Major economic and leisure development, as well as improvement of quality…

• February 21, 2015

  “Local Social perception of a mining artificial lake in Spain” my abstract for the next European Sociological Association conference in Prague

  The construction of a large scale power plant in the town of As Pontes in the late seventies and the associated influx of new workers would definitely change a place that by that time was not far from many others villages that form the most genuine rural Galicia. The closure of the adjacent opencast coalmine…