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The Silesian-Dabrowa coal and steel area lies in southern Poland, close to the country’s border with the Czech Republic. About four million people are influenced by the heavy industrial sector, concentrated in just 4500km2. The sector’s contraction began only in 1989, but it still produces more hard coal than all the European Union (EU). It is therefore unsurprising that the area is described as an old industrial region1 (Blasiak/Nawrocki/Szczepański 1994; Wódz 1998), evaluated as “catastrophic and skansen-type” (Nawrocki/Szczepański 1997: 85), and compared with the Donbass. A compelling conclusion is that region-making and regional development are affected by a heavy industrial “lock-in”, similar to that identified in the Ruhr (Grabher 1993).
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Cybula, A. (2004). Sector Versus Region, Homogeneity Versus Diversity. The Silesian-Dąbrowa Coal and Steel District in the Context of Linked Areas. In: Tatur, M. (eds) The Making of Regions in Post-Socialist Europe — the Impact of Culture, Economic Structure and Institutions. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-80923-0_5
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