Landscapes and Mindscapes
Landscapes and Mindscapes
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风景与心灵景观
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10.1093/hwj/dbab009
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2021
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1
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Curtis B
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Curtis B
In June 2020, the Welsh Government’s decision not to extend the operating licence of the Nant Helen opencast coal mine, on the north-western periphery of the former South Wales coalfield, drew the attention of BBC Wales and other media organizations. The significance of this story as a news item lay in the contrast between that announcement and the position of South Wales a hundred years ago as the biggest exporting coalfield in the world. Nevertheless, even though as an industry it has all but disappeared from many of the economies of the ‘developed’world, coal and its legacy very much continue to exert a multi-level influence upon the environment, whether considered in terms of local geographical factors or global climate change.Coal mining has an inherent geographical specificity. Mines are located in a particular place precisely because that is where the coal is. In an era of transnational capitalism, in which multinational corporations are able to close factories in one country and reopen them on the other side of the world, mining stands out. Not only is it tied to specific locations, the very act of mining inevitably has a range of transformative effects upon the landscape: from the physical reshaping of the topography via opencast pits or spoil tips, to polluting effects upon the air and water, to the growth of urban settlements to accommodate the mining workforce and their families. A further characteristic aspect of mining, which distinguishes it from many other industries, is that it is intrinsically extractive and therefore exhaustive.
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