Coal and Energy in South Africa

Considering a Just Transition

Lochner Marais, Phillippe Burger, Maléne Campbell, Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens, Deidré van Rooyen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-8705-4 (ISBN)

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Taking the growing South African mining town of Emalahleni as a case study, this book investigates whether a just transition from coal-generated energy is possible and what the local implications of this global restructuring of the energy sector will be. It looks at the consequences of shifting social responsibilities, new inequalities and the sustainability concerns created by the likely energy transition in Africa at the end of the fossil-fuel era.

Lochner Marais is Professor of Development Studies in the Centre for Development Support at the University of the Free State. His research integrates themes of housing policy, health and mining communities. Philippe Burger, an economist by training, is currently the Pro Vice-Chancellor: Poverty, Inequality and Economic Development and Vice-Dean at the University of the Free State. Maléne Campbell is Associate Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of the Free State Stuart Denoon-Stevens is Lecturer in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of the Free State Deidré Van Rooyen is Programme Director for Development Studies and a researcher in the Centre for Development Support at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Mining and mining towns: a conceptual framework
What is a just transition?
Mine closure in the coal industry: global and national perspectives
Household welfare in Emalahleni
Work and life satisfaction of mining employees
Informal settlements in the mining context
Coal and water: Exploiting one precious natural resource at the expense of another?
The health impacts of coal mining and coal-based energy
Sustainability reporting by collieries
Residents’ perceptions of coal mining and energy generation
Boom or bust for Emalahleni businesses?
Socio-economic dynamics of the informal economy
A more resilient policy approach to spatial fragmentation
Planning in the dark
‘The mines must fix the potholes’: A desperate community
Municipal finances
Is a just transition possible?

Erscheinungsdatum	03.12.2021
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Studies in Urban Political Economy
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Technik ► Bergbau
Themenwelt	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
ISBN-10	1-4744-8705-X / 147448705X
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-8705-4 / 9781474487054
Zustand	Neuware