Case study: Brown coal mining in the Usti region

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Description of situation

Huge extent of single raw material (brown coal) oriented mining and consequences for quality of life from global/regional development perspective:

  • Huge problems with landscape degradation affecting human settlements also (some villages removed because of the brown coal deposits)
  • Regional conflict: struggle for mining limits

Lessons learned

Very instructional case study of global and regional perspective concerning natural resource utilization, and consequent conflict

Resources

Mining limits (cz):

Basic documents (cz)

Important sudies (cz)

From media (cz)

  • Dagmar Smolíková: Doly versus obce. Sedmá generace. 2004, č. 12.
  • Spoluziti.cz - Stránky Mostecké uhelné společnosti prosazující prolomení limitů těžby
  • Petr Pakosta, Vlastimil Waic: Měly by být těžební limity prolomeny? Literární noviny 02/2006
  • Mostecká uhelná společnost prohlásila, že v Horním Jiřetíně a Černicích těžit bude komentář na priroda.cz

NGOs (cz)

Extinct or endangered localities (cz)