Transformation of a Coal Mining City into a Cultured Mining Heritage Tourism City in Sawahlunto, Indonesia: A Response to the Threat of Becoming a Ghost Town

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Delmira Syafrini ◽  
Muhamad Fadhil Nurdin ◽  
Yogi Suprayogi Sugandi ◽  
Alfan Miko
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Mining City ◽  
Ghost Town ◽  
Mining Heritage

Tourism Business, Place Identity, Sustainable Development, and Urban Resilience: A Focus on the Sociocultural Dimension

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-199
Author(s):  
Pilar Jiménez-Medina ◽  
Andrés Artal-Tur ◽  
Noelia Sánchez-Casado
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Mining Heritage

La Unión is a city located in the southeast of Spain with a long mining tradition. Along the twentieth century, this place faced a severe industrial crisis. Building on its history, heritage, and resources, the local economy changed towards the mining heritage tourism business. This article describes such a process of sustainable development and urban resilience through a two-stage approach. First, the focus is on explaining how the locality moved from being a mining industrial area to a mining heritage tourism place. In doing so, the study highlights the key role played by the cooperation of the local government and the nearby university. The second stage shows how the new economic model is firmly rooted on the mining identity of the place and what provides higher levels of sustainability to the destination from a social and cultural view. In this context, the article shows how the place identity model of tourism would be eager to limit the negative impacts usually associated with the spread of tourism, consequently receiving further support by the local population. To better understand the second-stage process, the study defines a theoretical framework and tests it empirically through a structural equation modeling approach. Results of the research provide regional policy advices.

Building Heritage Partnerships: Working Together for Heritage Preservation and Local Tourism in Appalachia

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 10-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary LaLone
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
History Education ◽  
Technical Support ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The University ◽  
Education Science ◽  
Mining Heritage

We wanted and needed to create a coal mining heritage park that could combine history, education, science, and recreation…it was a big job and we didn't have the expertise to do it, didn't have the training, didn't have much of the technical support that we needed…And then we needed to collect our oral history because our people are dying so rapidly-and so the university [Radford University] helped us do that. It was a creation of a larger community of actors. And so it just sort of doubled or increased our power to do what we needed to do. This partnership of ours has been great. It's been ten years, and counting. (Jimmie L. Price, President of the Coal Mining Heritage Association, March 19, 2005)

scholarly journals Concentrations, Spatial Distributions, and Sources of Heavy Metals in Surface Soils of the Coal Mining City Wuhai, China

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingwei Bu ◽  
Qingshan Li ◽  
Handan Zhang ◽  
Hongmei Cao ◽  
Wenwen Gong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Heavy Metal Contamination ◽  
Interpolation Method ◽  
Kriging Interpolation ◽  
Natural Sources ◽  
Mining City ◽  
Kriging Interpolation Method ◽  
The Mean

Various studies have shown that soils surrounding mining areas are seriously polluted by heavy metals. In this study, 58 topsoil samples were systematically collected throughout the coal mining city Wuhai, located within the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. The concentrations of As, Hg, Cr, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, and Pb in these samples were measured and statistically analyzed. The mean concentrations of all heavy metals were lower than their Grade I values defined by the Chinese Soil Quality Standard. However, the mean concentrations of individual heavy metals in many samples exceeded their background values. The spatial distribution of heavy metals was analyzed by the ordinary kriging interpolation method. The positive matrix factorization model was used to ascertain contamination sources of the eight heavy metals and to apportion the contribution of each source. The most severely polluted area was the Wuhushan mine site in the Wuda district of Wuhai. Our results showed that coal mining strongly affected heavy metal contamination of the local soils. Results of source apportionment indicated that contributions from industrial activities, atmospheric deposition, agricultural activities, and natural sources were 31.3%, 26.3%, 21.9%, and 20.5%, respectively. This clearly demonstrates that anthropogenic activities have markedly higher contribution rates than natural sources to heavy metal pollution in soils in this area.

Eco-service enhancement in peri-urban area of coal mining city of Huaibei in East China

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rusong Wang ◽  
Feng Li ◽  
Wenrui Yang ◽  
Xiaofei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
East China ◽  
Mining City

Concentrations and human health implications of heavy metals in market foods from a Chinese coal-mining city

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 37-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiali Cheng ◽  
Xianhui Zhang ◽  
Zhenwu Tang ◽  
Yufei Yang ◽  
Zhiqiang Nie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Health Implications ◽  
Mining City ◽  
Chinese Coal
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