Vaishar, Antonin; Stastna, Milada; Lipovska, Zdenka - In: Rural Areas and Development 7
The paper discusses whether it is possible to turn a region after mining activities back to its rural substance. The micro-region Sokolov-East (Northwest Bohemia) was chosen as an example. The region was dramatically impacted by opencast coal mining after WWII. Also the settlement structure was...