...Wenke Han; Songli Zhu; Judith A. Cherni Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the main environmental impacts of coal mining in China, examine the main institutions and reform factors that failed the control of these damages, and discuss what would be necessary to establish a sustainable...

... the markets” opened up by technical innovations, to which they contributed nothing. Even in the USA “coal mining, though perhaps to a greater degree the object of active enterprise than it was in England, was more pushed along than pushing” (Schumpeter, 1964). As a consequence, the coal industry was more...

... Publishing Limited 2007 Coal Coal technology Coal mining Energy sources Environmental management United States of America The industrialized nations, emerging economies, and the low income countries are all being confronted with the challenge of planning for long‐term energy supplies...