ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses long-term negative consequences of coal energy production on the regional level in terms of the resource curse and environmental injustice theories using an example of the most regions in the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic is a country with significant coal mining tradition dating back to the middle Ages. The chapter presents case study, was at the regional level; however, the impacts of coal energy exceed regional and national levels. Most of the impacts of coal energy production are cumulative, they extend well beyond the geographic locations of operating mines and power plants and they bring about other direct, indirect and unintended consequences at higher spatial levels, from regional to global. Most of the impacts – whether positive or negative – are also spatially and socially unevenly distributed, which raise a question of the environmental injustice of coal energy.
