The evolving energy landscapes of coal: Windows on the past and influences on the future
Coal energy landscapes have changed dramatically over the last decades, including geographic shifts in production and consumption, technological changes that have reduced labour demand and led to relatively new mining practices (e.g. invasive mountain-top approaches), changed economic footprints, a...
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| description | Coal energy landscapes have changed dramatically over the last decades, including geographic shifts in production and consumption, technological changes that have reduced labour demand and led to relatively new mining practices (e.g. invasive mountain-top approaches), changed economic footprints, a shutdown of capacities or a complete end of mining in many regions with massive impacts on regional and local economies, community well-being, social capital, et cetera. Then the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia´s invasion of Ukraine have fundamentally affected the global economy, disrupted energy markets, and shattered existing estimates about development trends, challenging the progress and speed of the low-carbon energy transition and coal phase-out. This article provides a brief reflection on the changing landscapes of coal and their possible futures, and serves as an introduction to the Special Issue of Moravian Geographical Reports on “The death of coal in the energy transition? Regional perspectives”. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-563b4cd83c674a22a0830afc4448fb352023-02-05T19:21:33ZengSciendoMoravian Geographical Reports2199-62022022-12-0130422823610.2478/mgr-2022-0015The evolving energy landscapes of coal: Windows on the past and influences on the futurePasqualetti Martin J.0Frantál Bohumil1School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and Julie Anne Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, Arizona State University, Tempe, USADepartment of Geography, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech RepublicCoal energy landscapes have changed dramatically over the last decades, including geographic shifts in production and consumption, technological changes that have reduced labour demand and led to relatively new mining practices (e.g. invasive mountain-top approaches), changed economic footprints, a shutdown of capacities or a complete end of mining in many regions with massive impacts on regional and local economies, community well-being, social capital, et cetera. Then the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia´s invasion of Ukraine have fundamentally affected the global economy, disrupted energy markets, and shattered existing estimates about development trends, challenging the progress and speed of the low-carbon energy transition and coal phase-out. This article provides a brief reflection on the changing landscapes of coal and their possible futures, and serves as an introduction to the Special Issue of Moravian Geographical Reports on “The death of coal in the energy transition? Regional perspectives”.https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2022-0015coal miningenergy landscapesenergy transitionscoal phase-outenergy crisis |
| spellingShingle | Pasqualetti Martin J. Frantál Bohumil The evolving energy landscapes of coal: Windows on the past and influences on the future Moravian Geographical Reports coal mining energy landscapes energy transitions coal phase-out energy crisis |
| title | The evolving energy landscapes of coal: Windows on the past and influences on the future |
| title_full | The evolving energy landscapes of coal: Windows on the past and influences on the future |
| title_fullStr | The evolving energy landscapes of coal: Windows on the past and influences on the future |
| title_full_unstemmed | The evolving energy landscapes of coal: Windows on the past and influences on the future |
| title_short | The evolving energy landscapes of coal: Windows on the past and influences on the future |
| title_sort | evolving energy landscapes of coal windows on the past and influences on the future |
| topic | coal mining energy landscapes energy transitions coal phase-out energy crisis |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2022-0015 |
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