Mapping the indirect employment of hard coal mining: A case study of Upper Silesia, Poland

Frankowski, Jan; Mazurkiewicz, Joanna; Sokołowski, Jakub

doi:10.1016/j.resourpol.2023.103693

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“…Alves Dias et al (2018);Miller/Blair (2009); Oei et al (2020); Vogt-Schilb/Feng (2019)). Yet the IO approach does not provide accurate information on the number of jobs actually at risk, nor on their spatial distribution and the socio-demographic characteristics of the workers in sufficient detail (see further limitations in Frankowski et al (2023)). In a study on coal mining in Poland, Frankowski et al (2023) therefore propose using data on the contracts of companies in the coal mining sector to assess the quantity, sectoral, and geographic location of the jobs at risk.…”

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Beyond a Czech-The-Box Exercise: Proposals for Meaningful Stakeholder Participation in the Just Transition

Černík,

Černý,

Gažo

et al. 2023

Journal Für Entwicklungspolitik

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The post-carbon transition presents an opportunity to address the inequalities in economic and political power faced by (semi-)peripheral regions. One such opportunity is the European Union's (EU's) just transition policies. However, the EU's policies fall short in terms of questioning existing socio-economic and power inequalities. Their implementation often relies on technocratic measures and selective expert advice. Particularly in the semiperipheral regions of Central and Eastern Europe, meaningful -as opposed to 'pro forma' -participation of all stakeholders in formulating just transition policies is lacking. Using the Czech Republic -a major brown coal producer in the EU -as an illustrative case, we examine the existing obstacles to such meaningful participation and propose how to achieve it. We suggest that meaningful participation requires the direct involvement of diverse, especially underrepresented groups, such as workers in the industries at risk of job losses, and the shifting of the role of experts from a position of privilege to an equal position with non-expert stakeholders. We conclude that involving all affected stakeholders through deliberative methods opens a space to diverse just transition policies. Such policies would create an opportunity to challenge the dominant development narrative proposed by core countries and institutions.

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Beyond a Czech-The-Box Exercise: Proposals for Meaningful Stakeholder Participation in the Just Transition

Černík,

Černý,

Gažo

et al. 2023

Journal Für Entwicklungspolitik

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Assessing Macroeconomic Effects of a Carbon Tax as a Tipping Intervention in Economies Undergoing Coal Phase-Out: The Cases of Poland and Greece

Frankowski,

Sokołowski,

Michas

et al. 2024

Springer Climate

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Introducing carbon taxation could accelerate systemic change towards a decarbonised future. In this book chapter, we aim to test to which extent this policy can be considered a tipping intervention that can encourage fast green technological innovation and infrastructure development in coal and carbon-intensive regions (CCIRs) and how this policy affects the sectoral structure of the economy. We use a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model (ΜΕΜΟ) to assess the impacts of implementing a carbon tax on GDP and unemployment in Poland and Greece. These two countries are currently phasing out coal. Our results show that carbon tax implementation significantly affects the macroeconomic indicators and may also lead to considerable labour market effects on sectors other than mining, such as the light industry and construction in Greece and energy-intensive and advanced manufacturing industries in Poland. We also discuss funding and recycling revenue mechanisms that could enable the successful implementation of a carbon tax. We conclude that it would be more reasonable to treat carbon tax as an additional political tool that must be combined with other interventions coordinated with an overall broader full-system transformation narrative rather than a single tool that can determine or ex-ante detect any future tipping point.

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Disassembling Poland's high-carbon imaginaries from within: The case of local activism in Upper Silesia

Lechowicz,

Kuchler

2024

Energy Research & Social Science

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Mapping the indirect employment of hard coal mining: A case study of Upper Silesia, Poland

Cited by 6 publications

References 17 publications

Beyond a Czech-The-Box Exercise: Proposals for Meaningful Stakeholder Participation in the Just Transition

Beyond a Czech-The-Box Exercise: Proposals for Meaningful Stakeholder Participation in the Just Transition

Assessing Macroeconomic Effects of a Carbon Tax as a Tipping Intervention in Economies Undergoing Coal Phase-Out: The Cases of Poland and Greece

Disassembling Poland's high-carbon imaginaries from within: The case of local activism in Upper Silesia

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