Challenges, dilemmas and success criteria of recycling coal mining landscapes
As our crowded and warming world continues moving away from fossil fuels such as coal, we are increasingly attempting to transform the landscapes damaged by mining into beneficial, appealing and valuable new uses. The post-mining transformation involves many dilemmas, often arouses land use conflict...
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| description | As our crowded and warming world continues moving away from fossil fuels such as coal, we are increasingly attempting to transform the landscapes damaged by mining into beneficial, appealing and valuable new uses. The post-mining transformation involves many dilemmas, often arouses land use conflicts and can reproduce environmental injustices. In the background of conflicts are diverging preferences for post-mining land uses from the perspective of various stakeholders. This paper examines key issues and dilemmas in post-mining transformation, including terminological inconsistencies, technical reclamation versus natural succession, heritage preservation choices, authenticity concerns, and success criteria issues. The underlying question we ask is: What is the future use of the coal energy landscape; that is, what should or could come next? To address this question, we provide a comprehensive literature review and an analysis of a sample of 28 case studies of good practice projects of reclamation or regeneration (i. e., recycling) coal mining landscapes from the Czech Republic. This study is distinctive in its comprehensive scope, analyzing a diverse range of recycling projects from surface mining landscapes to urban post-mining brownfields, with extensive analysis and findings. While the criteria of transparency and legitimacy of projects are essential for applying the principles of just transition, the criteria of efficiency and sustainability prove to be key measures of success according to which differences between projects appear in the longer term. The efficiency and sustainability are significantly associated with the multifunctionality of recycled landscapes and places and seasonality of their use. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b2c119ce7d564f4792d850b2f6041f682025-01-20T11:09:58ZengSciendoMoravian Geographical Reports2199-62022024-12-0132421623210.2478/mgr-2024-0018Challenges, dilemmas and success criteria of recycling coal mining landscapesFrantál Bohumil0Pasqualetti Martin J.1Brisudová Lucia2Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech RepublicSchool 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 RepublicAs our crowded and warming world continues moving away from fossil fuels such as coal, we are increasingly attempting to transform the landscapes damaged by mining into beneficial, appealing and valuable new uses. The post-mining transformation involves many dilemmas, often arouses land use conflicts and can reproduce environmental injustices. In the background of conflicts are diverging preferences for post-mining land uses from the perspective of various stakeholders. This paper examines key issues and dilemmas in post-mining transformation, including terminological inconsistencies, technical reclamation versus natural succession, heritage preservation choices, authenticity concerns, and success criteria issues. The underlying question we ask is: What is the future use of the coal energy landscape; that is, what should or could come next? To address this question, we provide a comprehensive literature review and an analysis of a sample of 28 case studies of good practice projects of reclamation or regeneration (i. e., recycling) coal mining landscapes from the Czech Republic. This study is distinctive in its comprehensive scope, analyzing a diverse range of recycling projects from surface mining landscapes to urban post-mining brownfields, with extensive analysis and findings. While the criteria of transparency and legitimacy of projects are essential for applying the principles of just transition, the criteria of efficiency and sustainability prove to be key measures of success according to which differences between projects appear in the longer term. The efficiency and sustainability are significantly associated with the multifunctionality of recycled landscapes and places and seasonality of their use.https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2024-0018energy landscaperecyclingpost-mining land userestorationreclamationregenerationsustainabilityczech republic |
| spellingShingle | Frantál Bohumil Pasqualetti Martin J. Brisudová Lucia Challenges, dilemmas and success criteria of recycling coal mining landscapes Moravian Geographical Reports energy landscape recycling post-mining land use restoration reclamation regeneration sustainability czech republic |
| title | Challenges, dilemmas and success criteria of recycling coal mining landscapes |
| title_full | Challenges, dilemmas and success criteria of recycling coal mining landscapes |
| title_fullStr | Challenges, dilemmas and success criteria of recycling coal mining landscapes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Challenges, dilemmas and success criteria of recycling coal mining landscapes |
| title_short | Challenges, dilemmas and success criteria of recycling coal mining landscapes |
| title_sort | challenges dilemmas and success criteria of recycling coal mining landscapes |
| topic | energy landscape recycling post-mining land use restoration reclamation regeneration sustainability czech republic |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2024-0018 |
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