Case study: Energy in Usti region

Power plants in CR and Usti region

• Brown Coal Power Generation in the Czech Republic http://www.czechcoal.cz/en/profil/skupina/energetika.html
• Power plants across the world (photo & technical description) http://www.industcards.com/ppworld.htm
• Coal and Lignite PP in CR http://www.industcards.com/st-coal-czech.htm

Consequences: air pollution

• Air pollution http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/Chapter11Doc13intro.pdf (en)
• Acid rain in the Czech Republic http://www.mzp.cz/osv/edice.nsf/DC21A4C7F0AFAD0AC1257081001AA6B7/$file/planeta_web.pdf (cz)

Other resources

• Ladysz, J. (2006). Chosen aspects of sustainable development on the Polish, Czech and German borderland. GeoJournal, 67(1), 1–7.
• Fanta, J. (1997). Rehabilitating degraded forests in Central Europe into self-sustaining forest ecosystems. Ecological Engineering, 8(4), 289–297.
• Godzik, S., & Sienkiewicz, J. (1990). Air pollution and forest health in central Europe: Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the German Democratic Republic. Ecological Risks—*Perspectives from Poland and the United States, 155–70.
• Matschullat, J., & Bozau, E. (1996). Atmospheric element input in the Eastern Ore Mountains. Applied geochemistry, 11(1-2), 149–154. PDF (1046 K)
• Cerny, J. (1995). Recovery of acidified catchments in the extremely polluted Krusne Hory Mountains, Czech Republic. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 85(2), 589–594.