What is it about?
The post-communist period has had a strong impact on Romania’s former communist urban industrial areas. Recent debates regarding urban industrial towns in Central and Eastern Europe reveal that their governance has been prone to neglect and that a lack of jobs has led to depopulation, seasonal migration, and a change in local labour skills. Drawing on 20 interviews with community leaders in Moldova Noua, Romania, this study presents divergent narratives on the development of the local economy around copper mine reopening and tourism.
Featured Image
Photo by Albert Hyseni on Unsplash
Why is it important?
The study is important because it highlight that tourism cannot be a panacea for all post-communist industrial towns.
Perspectives
The findings suggest that given the excellent position of the town on the river Danube and its proximity to the Danube Gorges, tourism is perceived as a long-term solution. However, up to now tourism has not proved to be a major economic engine for the local population. On the other hand, even if copper mining proved to be pollutant in communist times, some of respondents prefer the mines to be reopened in order to get better paid jobs.
Dr Remus Cretan
west university of Timisoara
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Revitalising Post-Communist Urban Industrial Areas: Divergent Narratives in the Imagining of Mine Reopening and Tourism in a Romanian Town, January 2024, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4764164.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
