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Extraction and development : fossil fuel production narratives and counternarratives in Colombia
Strambo, Claudia; González Espinosa, Ana Carolina - In: Climate policy 20 (2020) 8, pp. 931-948
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Structural change in coal regions as a process of economic and social-ecological transition : lessons learnt from structural change processes in Germany
Reitzenstein, Alexander; Popp, Rebekka; Oei, Pao-Yu; … - Deutschland / Umweltbundesamt - 2022
relevant for coal regions. This paper draws on the experiences of past and ongoing transition policies, exploring their … transition in coal regions in the future. …Effective policies to mitigate climate change need to be accompanied by a socially just transition. This is especially …
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Risk-averse restructuring of freight railways in China
Pittman, Russell - In: Utilities Policy 19 (2011) 3, pp. 152-160
handle the increased volumes of coal and containers necessary for continued growth, and whether the desired private …
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Coal sector in Poland, light in the tunnel or dimming candle?
Suwała, Wojciech - In: Mineral economics : raw materials report 31 (2018) 1/2, pp. 263-268
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The forgotten coal : charcoal demand in Sub-Saharan Africa
Rose, Julian; Bensch, Gunther; Munyehirwe, Anicet; … - 2022
Charcoal is an important cooking fuel in urban Africa. In this paper, we estimate the current number of charcoal users and project trends for the coming decades. Charcoal production is often not effectively regulated, and it hence contributes to forest degradation. Moreover, charcoal has adverse...
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Trump digs votes : the effect of Trump's coal campaign on the presidential ballot in 2016
Di Giacomo, Marina; Nagl, Wolfgang; Steinbrunner, Philipp - 2022
In this paper we investigate the effect of Donald Trump's campaign for coal in his successful race for the White House … in 2016. Using a spatial Durbin model we estimate the effect of coal production on the Republicans vote share in the US … between Mitt Romney in 2012 and Donald Trump in 2016 as the dependent variable. The positive effect of coal production on the …
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Death of Coal and Breath of Life : The Effect of Power Plant Closure on Local Air Quality
Brown, Jason; Tousey, Colton - 2020
The number of U.S. coal-red power plants declined by nearly 250 between 2001 and 2018. Given that burning coal … generates large amounts of particulate matter is known to have adverse health effects, closure of coal-red power plants should … improve local air quality. Using spatial panel data from air quality monitor stations and coal-red power plants, we estimate …
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Air pollution and mortality impacts of coal mining : evidence from coalmine accidents in China
Chu, Yin; Holladay, J. Scott; Qiu, Yun; Tian, Xian-Liang; … - 2023
We leverage the timing of coalmine accidents to examine the effect of coal mining on air pollution. Safety regulations … mandate that coal mining be suspended if a mine experiences an accident with 10 or more fatalities. We use a stacked … pollution data at the county-day level with the dates of accidents to show that on average, suspending coal mining reduces local …
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Coal-fired power plants and industrial development
Missbach, Leonard; Steckel, Jan Christoph; Renner, Sebastian - 2024
Past periods of industrial development have gone hand in hand with the burning of coal, but there is little evidence on … the effects of coal infrastructure on manufacturing growth in today's industrializing economies. We quantify the direct … and indirect effects of coal-fired power plant commissioning on local incumbent manufacturing firms in Indonesia during a …
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Trump digs votes : the effect of Trump's coal campaign on the presidential ballot in 2016
Steinbrunner, Philipp; Di Giacomo, Marina; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2024
In this paper, we investigate the effect of Donald Trump's campaign for coal during his successful race for the White … Party shares in coal counties in 2016 relative to other presidential election years. Then, we use a spatial Durbin Error … model to estimate the impact of coal production on the Republicans' vote share in the US Presidential Election of 2016 at …
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