1st Edition

Environmental Regulation in Transforming Economies: The Case of Poland

By Piotr Jasinski, Helen Lawton-Smith Copyright 1999
374 Pages
by Routledge

372 Pages
by Routledge

374 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1999 , the book is based on papers given at the final workshop of a research project into the evolution of environmental regulation in Poland undertaken as part of the UKs ERSC Global Environmental Change Programme. Other invited papers focused on the development of regulatory policy in transforming economies and in the UK. Furthermore the book highlights the... Read more

1. The Organizational Structure of Environmental Protection in Poland, Miroslaw Sobolewski and Ewa Taylor.   2. International Obligations in Environmental Law and Practice in Poland: Factors Influencing Implementation, Jerzy Jendroska and Jan Jerzmanski.  3. Industrial Enterprises and Implementation of Polish Air Pollution Policy, Brian Slock.  4. Input Oriented Environmental Policy as an Alternative to End-of-Pipe Policy: A Future Agenda for Poland, Maria J. Welfens.  5. Environmental Liabilities in the Polish Privatization Process, Piotr Jasinski.  6. Diffusion of Cleaner Technologies in the Polish Power Sector, Elisabeth Favrat.  7. Greenpeace’s Toxic Trade Campaign in Poland and its Impact on Polish Regulation, Iza Kruszewska.  8. Energy Use, Air Pollution, and Environmental Policy in Krakow, Seabron Adamson, Robin Bates, Robert Laslett, Alberto Pototschnig.  9. Systematic Transformation and Environmental Regulation in Poland: The Case if the Opole Power Station, Leslae Adamczyk , Tim Keyworth.  10. The Saline Water Problem in Upper Silesia, Helen Lawton Smith and Miroslaw Sobolewski.  11. Regional Independence of Centralization? Problems of Transformation in the Electricity Supply Industry in Russia, Petra Opitz, Wolfgang Pfaffenberger.  12. Lessons for the UK for Environment Regulation and Policy: The Case of Air Quality Management, J.W.S Longhurst, D.C. Gibbs and D.M. Elsom.

Biography

Piotr Jasinski, Helen Lawton-Smith

’...a successful and useful venture which fills an apparent gap in Polish legal and economic environmental literature...provides a comprehensive summary of the type of knowledge which is today required and greatly appreciated by academics, practicing lawyers, economists and ecologists.’ Environmental Law Review