Sourcebook of Alternative Technologies for Freshwater Augumentation in East and Central Europe


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2. The Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas (IEIA)

The Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas (IEIA) is based in Katowice, Poland. It is a scientific-research institute which dates back to 1972 when it was established by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Polish Government as an Environmental Abetment Center. In 1992, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry issued Decree 54 which gave a new structure to the Institute. Since 1992, the Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas became a separate and independent scientific-research organization.

The activities of IEIA are primarily related to the following environmental aspects:

-) Air, water, and soil quality control/problem;

-) Waste management;

-) Pollutants migration and transformation in the environment;

-) Assessment of pollutants concentration and their impact on humans;

-) Development of technologies reducing pollutants emission into the environment;

-) Development of modern methods and tools for environmental management;

-) Assessment of agricultural lands suitability for food production;

-) National and European environmental policy analysis;

-) Assessment of Ecosystem conditions;

-) Multi disciplinary system analysis;

-) Air, water, soil and plants pollution;

-) Transboundary pollution; -) Environmental Impact Assessment;

-) Risk Assessment;

-) Environmental engineering/technology;

-) Clean technologies;

-) Environmental Economics;

-) Water ecology and technology;

-) Solid waste management and reclamation;

-) Life cycle assessment of products;

-) Environmental Audits;

-) Analytical methods;

-) Environmental Toxicology;

-Identification and monitoring of environmental hazards.

The Institute has 129 staff members including 4 Professors, 23 PhDs and 52 MScs. considering chemists, biologists, physicists, mathematicians, agronomists, sanitary engineers as well as chemical and agriculture engineers, geographers, economists and lawyers. A large number of these specialists have extensive experience at international as well as national level.

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