?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fid%2Feprint%2F4878%2F&rft.title=Heavy+Metal+Pollution+and+Policies+for+Restructuring+the+Steel+and+Iron+Industry+in+Poland&rft.creator=Novy%2C+M.&rft.description=This+study+is+part+of+a+three+year+Industrial+Metabolism+Project+entitled+%22Regional+Material+Balance+Approaches+to+Long-Term+Environmental+Policy+Planning%22+at+IIASA+which+focuses+on+heavy+metal+pollution+in+the+Black+Triangle-Upper+Silesia+region+of+Poland.+This+report+examines+the+economic+importance+of+the+iron+and+steel+industry+in+the+Katowice+region%2C+and+its+impact+on+heavy+metal+pollution.+Environmental+policies+in+Poland+for+limiting+the+emission+of+heavy+metals+and+maintaining+air+quality+standards+are+not+sufficiently+enforced+to+reduce+heavy+metal+pollution+in+the+region.+In+addition%2C+limited+progress+has+been+made+to+date+in+privatizing+the+largely+state-owned+steel+sector+in+Poland%2C+with+negative+consequences+for+environmental+regulation+and+the+reduction+of+heavy+metal+pollution.+In+the+absence+of+government+action+to+implement+a+sector+wide+program+for+restructuring+the+iron+and+steel+industry%2C+restructuring+has+proceeded+on+a+firm+by+firm+basis+with+varied+results.+To+mitigate+the+emission+of+heavy+metals+from+the+iron+and+steel+industry%2C+a+number+of+policy+options+are+discussed%2C+including+government+policies+for+facilitating+modernization%2C+for+financing+needed+investment%2C+and+for+improving+environmental+regulation.&rft.publisher=WP-96-150&rft.date=1996-12&rft.type=Monograph&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text&rft.language=en&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fid%2Feprint%2F4878%2F1%2FWP-96-150.pdf&rft.identifier=++Novy%2C+M.++(1996).++Heavy+Metal+Pollution+and+Policies+for+Restructuring+the+Steel+and+Iron+Industry+in+Poland.+++IIASA+Working+Paper.+IIASA%2C+Laxenburg%2C+Austria%3A+WP-96-150+++++