Environmental Infrastructure Management Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Kyiv, Ukraine, April 30-May 4, 1995

About this book

Environmental issues continue to burden governments and economies throughout the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. Contents include discussions on the available cost-effective technology for solid waste treatment and air pollution control; transferable pollution credits as an instrument in regulating air quality; economic incentives which embraces user fees and other pollution control instruments; and environmental projects including the use of environmental impact assessments.

Contents

The economic evaluation of solid-waste management options, E.Z. Stakhiv and T.K. Allman; air-pollution-control technology and transferable pollution credits - experience from the US acid-rain programme, E. Lieberman; the role of user fees in the supply of environmental services, B. Fritsch and R. Prud'homme; pollution charges and marketable permits - application and implementation in industrializing countries, R. Kumar; project evaluation, J.J. Boland; capital-investment programming - capital experiences that work, G.W. Lawson; creating a new financial regime for environmental projects in Ukraine, M. Curley; environmental-impact assessment and decision-making for infrastructure management, E.Z. Stakhiv and E.M. Winslow.

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