Exploring and explaining participation in local opposition : : brown coal mining in Horní Jiřetín.

• Author: Černoch, Filip.
• TeilnehmendeR: Lehotský, Lukáš.; Ocelík, Petr.; Osička, Jan.
• Place / Publishing House: Brno : : Masaryk University,, 2019.; {copy}2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (68 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Preface
• Acknowledgement
• Introduction
• The Czech coal mining sector, its issues, and perspectives
• The history of the Czech coal-mining sector
• From WWII to the Velvet Revolution
• Coal in a liberalized economy
• The impact of mining on the local population
• The Territorial Limits on Brown-coal Mining in the North Bohemian Basin
• Conflict over the Limits
• Interests and their representatives
• The pro-mining camp
• Opponents of mining
• The position of the relevant governmental bureaucracy
• Political parties and the government
• Internal factors affecting the future of the Limits
• The emphasis on nuclear energy
• The role of coal in heating
• The price of resuming mining at the Czechoslovak Army Mine
• The strength of the opposition
• A regional context - the situation in Germany and Poland
• The depiction of coal mining in the media
• Media content
• Media articles
• Local Opposition in Relational Perspective
• Local Opposition: The NIMBY Syndrome and Beyond
• The Relational Approach: Discursive and Social Structure Layers
• Social Networks Analysis
• Discursive and Social Structure Layers of Local Opposition
• Local Opposition and Collective Action Frames
• Local Opposition and Social Networks
• Anti-Fossil Narratives as Collective Action Frames: A Case Study
• Research Design
• Findings
• Social Networks as Micro-mobilization Structures: A Case Study
• Research design
• Findings
• Conclusion
• Literature
• Table 1 - Industrialization in Bohemia (1850-1910) and Czechoslovakia (1950-2000, without Slovakia after 1993) (Kuskova, Gingrich, &amp
• Krausmann, 2008)
• Table 2 - Reserves at the most impacted mining sites (Melichar, Vojtěch, &amp
• Ščasný, 2012)
• Table 5 - Corpus statistics: basic annual statistics at the level of articles.
• Table 4 - Coal power plant construction in Poland (Caldecott et al., 2017)
• Table 3 - Hard coal and lignite/brown coal production (IEA, 2017)
• Table 7 - Topic model results: frequencies aggregated at the level of categories
• Table 6 - Topics, article frequencies, and general categories
• Table 8 - Adjacency matrix
• Table 10 - Long-term Cooperation Network Structural Properties
• Table 9 - A summary of frames and framing functions.