Exploring and explaining participation in local opposition : brown coal mining in Horní Jiřetín / Filip Černoch [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Černoch, Filip, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Non-governmental organizations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (64 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Exploring and explaining participation in local opposition

Place of Publication:

Brno : Masaryk University, 2019.

Summary:

This book summarizes a three-year research project on local opposition to coal mining in the Northwestern part of the Czech Republic. The research focused on the relational dimensions of the opposition movement and the political context in which the movement operates.

Contents:

Intro

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF TABLES

LIST OF FIGURES

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

INTRODUCTION

THE CZECH COAL MINING SECTOR, ITS ISSUES, AND PERSPECTIVES

The history of the Czech coal-mining sector

The impact of mining on the local population

The Territorial Limits on Brown-coal Mining in the Northern Bohemia

Czech "Coal Commission"

Regional context - the situation in Germany and Poland

THE DEPICTION OF COAL MINING IN THE MEDIA

Media articles

Media content

LOCAL OPPOSITION IN A 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

Social networks as micro-mobilization structures: A case study

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

80-210-9906-2

OCLC:

1305846536