Abstract
The objective: to consider the peculiarities of social tension occurrence in the coal-mining region. Methods: the research is based on the awareness of the fact that social tension is a mass adaptation syndrome that reflects the degree of different population categories physiological, psychophysiological and social-psychological adaptation (or maladaptation) to chronic frustration, hardships (drop in living standards and social changes).Social tension is addressed through the lens of both population categories: the population living on the territory of a coal-mining region but not employed in coal-mining industry as well as population directly employed in coal-mining industry. Results: the factors influencing the degree of social tension of the population living in a coal-mining region and directly employed in coal-mining industry have been released. Conclusion: the ways of social tension in coal-mining region easingbased on integrated research data have been offered. It has been determined that sustainable development of a coal-mining region must be connected with the following interrelated aspects: ecosystem preservation, satisfaction of human needsas well as life quality satisfaction together with efficient resources distribution and others. It has been proved that maximum involvement of thecitizens in social and political life plays the discrete role in the process of social tension easing in a coal-mining region.
Highlights
Nowadays coal is an important source of energy, its share amounts to 40% in electricpower production and 30% in primary energy production
As a rule, such state is caused by a conflict and accompanies it and the scales and intensity of social tensions directly depend on the scale of the conflict itself
Social tension capturesboth: the population living on the territory of a coal-mining region butnot employed in mining industry as well as the population employed in coalmining industry
Summary
Nowadays coal is an important source of energy, its share amounts to 40% in electricpower production and 30% in primary energy production. Russian coal-mining industry has a number of advantages, such as, the existence of considerable mineral wealth (the world's second biggest), ample opportunities to access the world market, variety of coal products, appliance of innovations [8] These advantages do not eliminate major deficiencies of mining industry, one of which is high level of social tension in coal-mining regions. It should be mentioned that social tension is part and parcel of social life As a rule, such state is caused by a conflict and accompanies it and the scales and intensity of social tensions directly depend on the scale of the conflict itself
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