TY - GEN

T1 - Governance of abandoned opencast coal mines

T2 - The summer academy (SOMAK) The future of central Germany region - vision 2050<br/>

AU - Perez-Sindin Lopez, Xaquin

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - This paper aims to explore the risk assessment performed by the actors involved in two land environmental remediation processes, as well as the social adaptation of such risks. The pit lake situated in the municipality of As Pontes of García Rodríguez in the Autonomous Community of Galicia (Spain) and the pit lakes located in the state of Saxony south of the city of Leipzig (Germany). The comparison between one and another case let distinguish two very different strategies of social adaptation of risk and governance. One characterizes by a greater social openness and democratization of the decision making. The other one represents a more closed and centralized strategy. The last one seems to be translated into a lower level of social acceptance among locals, judging by the opinion survey consulted. Results are enriching in terms of new hypothesis to be tested in the future.

AB - This paper aims to explore the risk assessment performed by the actors involved in two land environmental remediation processes, as well as the social adaptation of such risks. The pit lake situated in the municipality of As Pontes of García Rodríguez in the Autonomous Community of Galicia (Spain) and the pit lakes located in the state of Saxony south of the city of Leipzig (Germany). The comparison between one and another case let distinguish two very different strategies of social adaptation of risk and governance. One characterizes by a greater social openness and democratization of the decision making. The other one represents a more closed and centralized strategy. The last one seems to be translated into a lower level of social acceptance among locals, judging by the opinion survey consulted. Results are enriching in terms of new hypothesis to be tested in the future.

KW - Faculty of Science

KW - Risk assessment

KW - Risk perceptions

KW - Governance

KW - public participation

KW - Environmental Restoration and Remediation

KW - Mining sites

KW - Cross-national differences

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - Risk assessment

KW - Risk perceptions

KW - public participation

KW - Cross-national differences

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 3938920084

SP - 90

EP - 95

BT - Sommerakademie 2015: Zukunftsregion Mitteldeutschland - Vision 2050 (Deutsch)

PB - Kulturstiftung Hohenmölsen

CY - Hohenmölsen

Y2 - 27 September 2015 through 29 September 2015

ER -