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 The next step was to analyse the various interactions and highlighting the different relationships between all the stakeholders. This creates what at first sight seems like a somewhat complicated map (see Fig. 2), even without every single interaction depicted, yet a closer reading revealed an elegant simplicity to the map which was able to be simplified further to demonstrate (see Fig. 3) the most critical relationships with the greatest impact on the region’s development.
+The first stage of the map involved mapping the obvious relationships and networking among specific stakeholders and briefly listing what their particular interest might be in that relationship. Examples (by no means exhaustive) were as follows:
+* The '''national government''' interacts with the '''European Union''', the '''regional government''' and '''Czech Coal''' in respect to formulating strategic national  and regional resource plans, analysing and negotiating energy security needs, setting a democratic framework for communicating and decision-making, defining the legal framework for resource exploitation
+* '''Czech Coal''' interacts with '''heavy industries and local businesses''' to ensure on-going supplies of coal as a source of energy for manufacturing processes or as purchasers of each other’s goods and services; '''Czech Coal''' also has problematic or broken relationships with the communities of '''Horní Jiřetín and Černice''' and some '''property owners''' because of continuing uncertainty over the future of those townships and surrounding land with the prospect of further mining operations hanging over them; there is a similar broken relationship with some '''environmental and cultural NGOs''' because of diametrically opposed views on future use of the landscape and preservation of the built environment
+* '''Local businesses''' have a symbiotic relationship with the '''regional citizens''', as the former act as sources of employment for the latter, while citizens are purchasers of business services and goods; '''Czech Coal''' also interacts with citizens as another important source of employment and as sponsors and funders of local community projects, e.g. cultural and sporting events
+* '''Environmental NGOS''' interact with '''Horní Jiřetín and Černice''' in support of the efforts of those communities to protect their existing natural and built environment and cultural monuments, and to inform other '''regional citizens''', while they also seek to influence the opinions of politicians at the '''local, regional and national government level'''; '''environmental and cultural NGOs''' further interact with '''academic experts''' as partners or funders of independent research on local environmental impacts
+* '''Municipal government''' naturally has a relationship with its '''local citizens''' as a provider of basic and public services, and with schools as the official employers of the teaching staff, while '''schools''' in turn interact with the '''national government''' in terms of curriculum setting, and with experts in the form of pedagogues researching and testing teaching methodology
+* '''Health care services''' interact with the '''national and regional governments''' as recipients of funding for their services, and with '''experts''' as primary sources of research into the general health of the local population, including the impact of particulates in the atmosphere resulting from opencast mineral extraction; they naturally also have a strong relationship toward the '''local citizens''' as providers of primary health care
+* The '''European Union''' has a relationship toward the '''national and regional governments''' in terms of creating an overarching European framework for environmental protection, maintaining a common market for the mineral and energy projects produced by the region, guidelines for mineral extraction and provision of funding for infrastructural projects
+* The '''media'''  interact with the '''local citizens''' as conduits, filters or even interpreters of information about regional sustainability impacts, while also interacting with all other stakeholders to source their information
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