Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER 1 Mining and Mining Towns: A Conceptual Framework -- Chapter 2 What Is a Just Transition? -- Chapter 3 Mine Closure in the Coal Industry: Global and National Perspectives -- Chapter 4 Household Welfare in Emalahleni -- Chapter 5 Work and Life Satisfaction of Mining Employees -- Chapter 6 Informal Settlements in the Mining Context -- Chapter 7 Coal and Water: Exploiting One Precious Natural Resource at the Expense of Another? -- Chapter 8 The Health Impacts of Coal Mining and Coal-based Energy -- Chapter 9 Sustainability Reporting by Collieries -- Chapter 10 Residents' Perceptions of Coal Mining and Energy Generation -- Chapter 11 Boom or Bust for Emalahleni Businesses? -- Chapter 12 Socio-economic Dynamics of the Informal Economy -- Chapter 13 A More Resilient Policy Approach to Spatial Fragmentation -- Chapter 14 Planning in the Dark -- Chapter 15 'The mines must fix the potholes': A Desperate Community -- Chapter 16 Municipal Finances -- Chapter 17 Is a Just Transition Possible? -- Index
Summary
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
