Social science perspectives on climate change and development

University of Copenhagen

Xaquín S. Pérez-Sindín López

Tag: post-mining regions

  • European Coal Map (video)

    https://vimeo.com/138616562

  • Church removal: coal mining, cultural heritage and social cohesion

    Heuersdorf  was a village in the Leipzig lowlands, Saxony, Germany. The area of the village belongs to the city of Leipzig since 2004. After a long but ultimately futile resistance of the inhabitants since 1935 the village was evacuated and devastated. See bellow the description, taken from www.heuersdorf.de, illustrates the struggle: The villagers were forced to…

  • Socio-spatial differentiation in southern Leipzig post-mining area

    Bellow it is showed the three types of communities (Kabisch, 2004) adjacent to the coal mine, now pit lakes, in the southern leizig. Rural villages: Dreiskau-Muckern (469 inh. in 2014), Oelzchau (610 inh. in 2014), Pötzschau (374 inh. in 2014), Mölbis (515 inh. in 2014), Störmthal (512), Auenhain , Wachau, Güldengossa (394 inh. in 2014):…

  • “The shrinking mining city: urban dynamics and contested territory” by Martinez-Fernandez (2012)

    Abstract Shrinking mining cities — once prosperous settlements servicing a mining site or a system of mining sites — are characterized by long-term population and/or economic decline. Many of these towns experience periods of growth and shrinkage, mirroring the ebbs and flows of international mineral markets which determine the fortunes of the dominant mining corporation…

  • Tagebau Hambach, a large scale mine in Elsdorf (Germany)

    Open pit located in Elsdorf is a town in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 5 km south-west of Bergheim and 30 km west of Cologne. 30.000 people were displaced 170 km2 were recovered for agricultural use Reference: Aréchaga Rodríguez, F. (2013) “La influencia de la actividad extractiva de materias primas en el desarrollo económico y social…

  • Largest Open-pit Mines in The World

  • Sinking money into a pit

    The Miner Plan showered tens of millions of euros on the struggling mining regions But it failed to foment job-generating alternatives to coal of in León, Teruel and Córdoba RAFAEL MÉNDEZ / PATRICIA PEIRÓ 1 DIC 2013 – 14:36 CET The Marta harks back to better times. This locomotive, built in France in 1884, should…

  • El cártel del carbón aprieta los dientes

    El sexteto de grandes mineras que domina el sector mantiene el exceso de oferta THOMAS GUALTIERI 29 MAR 2015 – 00:00 CET El carbón, más que un mero combustible, es un símbolo. Su ingente presencia en el norte de Europa y la facilidad para transportarlo a través de una ramificada red fluvial cimentaron el desarrollo…

  • 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…

  • Why and where early retirees move? A post-mining town case study (my abstract for the next European Sociological Association conference in Prague)

    Problem and research question Mining industries have played a crucial part in the European history. Starting in the 19th century, the extraction of coal and lignite provided the basis for the industrialization of many European regions (Wirth et al, 2012). Due to exhaustion of resources or technical and market conditions changes, mining industry has been…