Minimizing Environmental Impacts of Industrial Growth : Case Study of Petrochemical Industry in Kazakhstan
Revival and development of the petrochemical industry in Kazakhstan is possible without serious damage to the environment, so long as measures by investors in plant revival include best available techniques (BATs) that avoid and minimize impact on...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/02/16375605/kazakhstan-minimizing-environmental-impacts-industrial-growth-case-study-petrochemical-industry-kazakhstan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13019 |
| Summary: | Revival and development of the
petrochemical industry in Kazakhstan is possible without
serious damage to the environment, so long as measures by
investors in plant revival include best available techniques
(BATs) that avoid and minimize impact on the environment as
a whole.This study was initiated to develop methodologies to
analyze and mitigate key environmental and natural resource
aspects of industrial growth and to propose ways to
integrate these methodologies into policy tools. The
emerging petrochemical industry was selected to demonstrate
how methodology can be applied. The report is structured as
two interrelated tools: Technical guidelines (chapters two
and three) focus on (i) an analysis of availability of
environmental resources in different oblasts; and (ii)
references to internationally BATs in the production of
polymers. These techniques avoid and minimize impact on the
environment as a whole. Policy guidelines (chapters four and
five) focus on policy instruments which would encourage
plant developers to apply the best available techniques when
developing potentially hazardous industrial production in Kazakhstan. |
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