The Responsibility Of Stakeholders For The Regeneration Of Former Mining Communities

The new environmental criteria, stated in the Paris Agreement, calls for action to establish the necessary responses for carbon neutrality in the European Union (2050). There is a new regional metabolic setting, in which the greatest processual responsible are the stakeholders and the people’s representatives: the mining companies and the local administrations. This paper brings a relevant contribution to research by proposing a management system that transforms closing mining assets into new development centers during the mine closure procedure. After an overview of the processes in industrial zones, in parallel to the state-of-the-art examples of post-industrial regeneration in Europe, the paper highlights the role of stakeholders as the ones responsible for the regeneration of former monoindustrial regions. The paper concerns a particular case in this type of areas: the coal mining regions struggling to emerge in new economic processes on the free market frame. We find ourselves now, at the emergence of the third industrial revolution in these areas (with the fourth going on worldwide), producing a series of vital changes. The most affected regions are those once dependent on production and processing activities specific for the first and second stages of the industrial age. This shift is not familiar for stakeholders that were once dependent on the state economy and they are now looking to establish new procedures and activities in order to keep up in the market economy.