Adaptation, culture, and the energy transition in American coal country
By Sanya Carley, Tom P. Evans, David M. Konisky. 2018
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Abstract The U.S. coal industry has experienced economic decline over the past several decades, which has resulted in a loss of mining jobs and severe economic hardship in many coal communities. Recent efforts to relax environmental regulations are ostensibly intended to help relieve this hardship and to revitalize this industry. Based on evidence gathered from focus groups and interviews conducted in U.S. coal communities, we argue that coal communities that have experienced mine closures have already begun an economic and social transition, one that is based on reshaping their culture and sense of identity, and false promises to return coal jobs can be destructive to the progress that has been made.
Subfields: Building and Construction, Pollution, Sociology and Political Science
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- Volatile Photovoltaics: Green Industrialization, Sacrifice Zones, and the Political Ecology of Solar Energy in Germany (2021, background): “They can displace people from their livelihood; dispossess them of their land (Baka 2017); or even challenge their heritage, tradition, and cultural identity, an example here being the social embeddedness of coal mining in parts of the United States (Carley, Evans, and Konisky 2018).”
- The justice and equity implications of the clean energy transition (2020, unknown): “Studies in Appalachia 27 and Australia 35 for example have found that, as a result of coal mining or power plant operation closures, surrounding communities experience a significant loss of other retail and commercial employment, since laid-off coal industry employees reduce their demand for other…”