India's coal mining plan undermines climate goals | Science
To satisfy rapidly growing energy demands (), India plans to increase annual output from its underground coal mines from 26 million tons in 2023 to 100 million tons by 2030 ().The extensive development of underground coal mining will have profoundly negative and potentially irreversible effects on the India's ecosystems, including …
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Socio-economic Environmental Sustainability and Indian …
In India, it is experienced and observed, that the coal mining regions often lack in social development compared to that of metal mine regions, despite better …
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Coal | Challenges and opportunities
India is the second largest producer of coal in the world, and the greatest challenge in the phase-out of coal is the social aspect. In India, about 13 million people are employed in various sectors associated with coal, including mining, transport, power, sponge iron and steel. 10 Thus, the socio-economic impact of the transition away from ...
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(PDF) Environmental Impact Assessment of Mining in India…
A Case Study on the effects of Coal Mining in the Environment Particularly in Relation to Soil, Water and Air causing a socio economic Hazard in Asansol-Raniganj Area, India IRJSS, 3(8), 39 ...
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India's just energy transition: Political economy challenges …
Our findings suggest that adverse impacts are strongly concentrated in Eastern, less wealthy, coal- mining states, which would face employment losses with …
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Just Transition in Coal: A Perspective from Jharkhand
Just transition planning in India will not be a linear question of substituting a "mono" industry (coal) along with its workforce. Considering the nature of dependence and the poor socio-economic status of most coal mining areas in India, just transition will require "structural changes" to support a broad-based socio-economic transition.
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Putting India on the growth path: Unlocking the mining …
The Indian mining sector has been a success story in waiting for decades. Despite enjoying an endowment of the top 5 or 6 reserves globally across commodities such as thermal coal and iron ore, the mining industry has remained relatively small and stagnant. In fact over the last decade, the contribution of mining to India's GDP has fallen from
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Political economy of just transition: Disparate impact of coal mine
The impact of mine closure on the company and more generally the employment in the thermal power industry. 2. The measures to address the impact of mine closure on its workers. 80 min: Semi-structured interview: A laid-off worker from the coal mining company redeployed to the coal-fired electricity company: 1.
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Susceptible Development: Impact of Coal Mining on Environment in India
Abstract. Coal mining contributes largely towards economic development of the nation like India although it has a great impact upon the human health. It also has its impact on socio-cultural ...
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Socio-economic Environmental Sustainability and Indian Mining …
In India, it is experienced and observed, that the coal mining regions often lack in social development compared to that of metal mine regions, despite better spending capacity of the former region i.e. coal mines. The Indian mining industry produces varieties of 'minerals', about 95, of fuel (4), metallic (10), non-metallic (21), atomic ...
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Impacts of Coal mining: a Review of Methods and …
1 Excerpt. Unbridled coal extraction and concerns for livelihood: evidences from Odisha, India. Tattwamasi Paltasingh Jayadev Satapathy. Environmental Science, …
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A brief review paper on mining subsidence and its geo-environmental impact
The data shows that in India the open cast coal mining has dictate very much of 93.26%, nevertheless only 6.74% are underground mines. Apart from India 60% of the other countries have their underground coal extraction. In India the coal production is continuously declining due to the heavy extraction of coal on near-surface by open cast …
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Community resilience, Corporate Social Responsibility and …
More than half of India's domestic demand for energy is met by coal. The International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts that India's coal consumption will rise by 3.9 percent by 2024. Furthermore, coal mining is linked to negative externalities for the overall environment, land and community, amongst other things (Kumar et al., 2020). As a result ...
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Opencast coal mining and rural livelihoods: a study of
The demand of coal has led to expand the mining activities nationwide, which helps to improve the economic growth of the national capital. At the same time, it is the source of inevitable social and environmental consequences. In the developing countries, especially rural areas are often affected by this complex nature of mining. The local …
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The Economic Impact of Coal and Coal-Fired Power …
vi Bureau of Business & Economic Research • Coal mining and coal-fired power generation combined provided around $2.8 billion in employee compensation in West ia in 2019. • Coal mining and coal-fired power generation combined supported more than $611 million severance tax and select state and local tax revenue for West …
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Impact of Coal Mining on Ambient Air in Respect of
Abstract and Figures. Coal mining is the prime reason behind climate change and has a great impact on global warming as coal produces 39℅ global CO2 emissions. At the same time, coal production ...
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Environmental Impact Assessment of Coal Mining: Indian …
Coal mining in India has resulted in significant changes in land use/land cover in several coal fields of India posing a serious environmental threat including reduced forest cover, contaminating ...
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Impact of Mining on Tribal Socio-economic and …
impact of mining on tribal people and the problems of rehabilitation programmes. HISTORY OF MINING INDUSTRY IN INDIA India has a long history of commercial coal mining beginning from 1774 with M/s Sumner & Heatly of the East India Company in the Ranigunj area — a portion of undivided Bengal-Bihar and Orissa unit. This unit was administrated by
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Executive summary – Coal 2022 – Analysis
Global coal demand is set to rise in 2022 amid the upheaval of the energy crisis. Coal markets have been shaken severely in 2022, with traditional trade flows disrupted, prices soaring and demand set to grow by 1.2%, reaching an all-time high and surpassing 8 billion tonnes for the first time. In last year's annual market report, Coal 2021 ...
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Coal mining and environmental sustainability in South …
This study investigates the effects of coal mining on environmental sustainability in South Africa in relation to the moderating role of institutions. To achieve the study's objectives, the fully modified least square (FMOLS), dynamic least squares (DOLS), canonical cointegrating regression (CCR), Bayer-Hanck cointegration and Toda …
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Mining Sector in India
The mining sector in India can influence social inclusion, economic progress, and environmental sustainability. The mining sector's GDP contribution only swings between 2.2% and 2.5%, but based on the GDP of the entire industrial sector, it ranges from 10% to 11%. Even small-scale mining adds 6% to the overall cost of mineral production.
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Impacts of Coal mining: a Review of Methods and Parameters Used in India
This review presents a systematic synthesis of the various methods and measures that have been used to investigate the effects of coal mining in India. A total of 87 peer-reviewed articles were collected for each year from 1970 to 2014 using a keyword based search. The articles compiled were analyzed and categorized according to the …
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IMPORTANCE OF COAL SECTOR IN INDIAN ECONOMY: …
Mining in India is a major economic activity which contributes significantly to the economy of India. The GDP contribution of the mining industry varies from 2.2% to 2.5% only but going by the GDP of the total industrial sector it contributes around 10% to 11%. Coal with a proven reserve of 860 billion tonnes is mined the most in the world.
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How a just transition can make India's coal history
For instance, in 2019, Coal India, the main federal government-owned company that mines more than 80% of total coal in the country, paid approximately 500bn rupees ($6.7bn/£4.9bn) in taxes and ...
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(PDF) Impact of Coal Mining on Environment: A Study of …
The present study undertake to analyze the impact of coal mining on environment in India by using non- doctrinal research method. Another goal is to classify the anthropogenic and natural hazards, which have an impact on mining sites in the mountainous environment. ... Con clusion: Mining has a significant impact on the economic, social and ...
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Social and Occupational Impact of Coal Mining in Dhanbad …
Singh R. Mining and Its Impact on Tribals in India: Socio-Economic and Environmental Risks. International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research. 2015;3(2):429-439.
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Coal mining, economic development, and the natural …
The economic landscape for coal mining has changed dramatically in the past two decades. We use exogenous instruments for coal mining to control for unobserved endogeneity. We investigate coal mining's impact on a wide range of local economic indicators. The effects of coal mining on local communities are complex and nuanced.
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The Economic and Environmental Effects of Coal Mining: …
The positive influence is that coal mining improves the South African economy, expressive of impacts on export, domestic consumption, GDP, and employment. However, coal mining damages the ...
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India's coal mining plan undermines climate goals | Science
The extensive development of underground coal mining will have profoundly negative and potentially irreversible effects on the India's ecosystems, including …
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How Important is Coal in Indian Economy? Coal Power Plants …
" In India, coal-fired power plants contribute 40 per cent of India's fossil fuel emissions and 13 per cent of the ambient PM 2.5. Each year, they cause an estimated 112,000 deaths …
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