Black Triangle case study

Concepts of capital in different contexts

• Environmental capital
• Social capital
• Capital in economy

Situation on the Czech side of the border

• Case study: Historical mining in the Ore mountains‎
• Case study: Brown coal mining in the Usti region‎
• Case study: The Battle for Jezeří Chateau
• Case study: The Life and Near Death of Jezeří Chateau Under the Czechoslovak Communist Regime
• Related information see also Knowledge base for Ore Mountains case study

Actors in Ore mountains & Most region

• Overview of actors in this case
• Case study methodology as it was used for this particular case.

Resources

• Barton, A., & Dlouhá, J., (eds). Multi-Actor Learning for Sustainable Regional Development in Europe: A Handbook of Best Practice. Guildford: Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd.; 2011. [online] [cit. 2011-06-18] Available from http://www2.leuphana.de/vcse/uploads/media/Multi-Actor_Learning_FINAL.pdf
• Environmental Change Hotspots. (21st of October 2014). United Nations Environment Programme. Available from: http://na.unep.net/atlas/google.php
  • see also http://www.grid.unep.ch/activities/global_change/blacktriangle.php
• Zimmermann, A., Maennling, C. (2007). Mainstreaming participation. Multi-stakeholder management: Tools for Stakeholder Analysis. Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Eschborn

Academic articles (Germany & Poland)

Demshuk, A. (2012). Reinscribing Schlesien as Śląsk: Memory and mythology in a postwar German-Polish Borderland. History & Memory, 24(1), 39-86.

Helios Rybicka, E. (1996). Impact of mining and metallurgical industries on the environment in Poland. Applied Geochemistry, 11(1), 3-9.

Hold, M. (n.d.) “Shaping the multicultural society of Lower Silesia after the Second World War exemplified by the case of Dobroszyce”, Journal of Education Culture and Society. [online]. Available from http://nowadays.home.pl/JECS/data/documents/JECS=201=282010=29=2095-109.pdf

Kamusella, T. D. (1999). Ethnic cleansing in Silesia 1950-89 and the ennationalizing policies of Poland and Germany. Patterns of prejudice, 33(2), 51-73.

Kamusella, T. (2003). Dual Citizenship in Opole, Silesia in the Context of European Integration. FACTA UNIVERSITATIS-Series Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology and History, (10), 699-716.

Krümmelbein, J., Bens, O., Raab, T., & Anne Naeth, M. (2012). A history of lignite coal mining and reclamation practices in Lusatia, eastern Germany.Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 92(1), 53-66.

Kulczycki, J. J. (2001). The National Identity of the 'Natives' of Poland's' Recovered Lands'. National Identities, 3(3), 205-219.

Ladysz, J. (2006). Chosen aspects of sustainable development on the Polish, Czech and German borderland. GeoJournal, 67(1), 1-7.

Madziarz, M. (2013). “Historical ore mining sites in Lower Silesia (Poland) as geo-tourism attraction”, Acta Geoturistica. [online]. Available from http://geotur.tuke.sk/pdf/2013/n01/03_Madziarz_v4_n1.pdf

Pavlínek, P., & Pickles, J. (Eds.). (2000). Environmental transitions: Transformation and ecological defense in Central and Eastern Europe. Psychology Press.

Renner, E. (2002). The Black Triangle Area-Fit for Europe? Numerical Air Quality Studies for the Black Triangle Area. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 31(3), 231-235.

Thaler, P. (1997). A Bridge Lost-Interethnicites along the German-Polish Border. International Migration Review, 694-703.

Von Braun, F. (1964). Germany's Eastern Border and Mass Expulsions.

Project pages

RESOURCE post-mining in Central Europe project http://www.resource-ce.eu/

RESOURCE Book: Post-Mining Regions in Central Europe http://www.resource-ce.eu/uploads/Post-Mining%20Regions%20in%20Central%20Europe.pdf

RESOURCE resources http://www.resource-ce.eu/en/links/related-projects-and-networks/

Mountain Voices – Oral Testimony Programme (Poland) http://www.mountainvoices.org/poland.asp.html

Photos and movies

Movie Black Triangle: Eastern Europe see description at: http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/188742/Black-Triangle-Eastern-Europe/overview

Black Triangle https://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&ALID=2TYRYD1KHS4R or photos by Josef Koudelka: http://todayspictures.slate.com/blacktri/

Newspaper/media articles

Stutz, Bruce. (spring 2005). Europe's Black Triangle Turns Green, OneEarth, Available from: http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/05spr/triangle1.asp

Lydersen, L. (2012). "Germany Continues to Expand Brown Coal Mines Despite Its Commitment Clean Energy", Earth Island Journal. [online]. Available from: http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/germany_to_expand_brown_coal_mines/

Chambers, M. (2014) "German state allows Vattenfall to expand brown coal mining", Reuters. [online]. Available from: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/06/03/germany-coal-idUKL6N0OK2AD20140603

Smee. J. (2010). "Extreme Makeover: The Watery Future of East Germany's Coal Mines", Spiegel Online. [online]. Available from: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/extreme-makeover-the-watery-future-of-east-germany-s-coal-mines-a-717855.html

Winter, S. (2007). "Rich Seams: The Fight Over East Germany's Brown Coal Reserves", Speigel Online. [online]. Available from: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/rich-seams-the-fight-over-east-germany-s-brown-coal-reserves-a-472816.html

Pearce, F. (2014). "On the Road to Green Energy, Germany Detours on Dirty Coal", Environment360. [online]. Available from: http://e360.yale.edu/feature/on_the_road_to_green_energy_germany_detours_on_dirty_coal/2769/

The IBA Lausitz – A Laboratory for New Landscapes: promoting new uses for old monuments of the industrial age (n.d.), Available from: http://www.goethe.de/kue/arc/dos/dos/sls/zup/en5045388.htm

The Economist (2013). “Angela Merkel's voters in Lower Silesia”. [online]. Available from http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2013/09/polands-german-minority

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