Industrial Restructuring and the United States Coal-Energy System, 1972–1990: Regulatory Change, Technological Fixes, and Corporate Control
| Autor: | Trevor M. Harris, Gregory A. Elmes |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Consumption (economics)
Restructuring business.industry Geography Planning and Development Control (management) technology industry and agriculture Coal mining Legislature respiratory system complex mixtures respiratory tract diseases Deregulation Economy otorhinolaryngologic diseases Economics Coal Energy system business Industrial organization Earth-Surface Processes |
| Zdroj: | Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 86:507-529 |
| ISSN: | 1467-8306 0004-5608 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1996.tb01764.x |
| Popis: | In the past three decades the coal-energy system in the United States has undergone significant restructuring in location, technology, and organization. During the 1970s and 1980s the quadrupling of oil prices coupled with changing relations of production, legislative action for environmental protection, and deregulation in coal transportation initiated major reorganizations of the movement of coal from mines to electricity-generating plants. In this paper a three-part analysis examines the corporate and regulatory processes influencing coal flows during restructuring. Part one describes intrastate flows using coal-recepts from power plants. Part two identifies the changing spatial relationships in the coal-energy system between 1972 and 1990 using a dyadic factor analysis of interstate coal flows. Some origin-destination pairs responded rapidly to changes in coal demand. Others lagged behind until coal production or consumption facilities were developed under new financial and regulatory conditi... |
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