OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

As the United States transitions away from coal energy, communities across the country are grappling with the retirement and legacy of coal energy facilities (e.g., power plants, surface and subsurface mines, rail infrastructure). This trans-disciplinary project seeks to combine social science, engineering, history, theatre, and art to explore, understand and document specific and generalizable impacts of coal transitions on three Ohio case study communities facing recent, ongoing or imminent retirements. Drawing upon current research on community resilience in resource-dependent areas, we intend our findings, practitioner reports, and community tool-kits to inform policies and programs aimed at bolstering community resilience in our case-study communities and other similarly vulnerable locales. We intend to highlight and improve the understanding of these issues for students and practitioners in engineering and planning disciplines. We intend for our creative outputs to create..

Primary location: Columbus United States