Assessing the external costs and the economic viability of the Greek steel industry

Damigos, D; Kaliampakos, D

dc.contributor.author	Damigos, D	en
dc.contributor.author	Kaliampakos, D	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T02:51:33Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T02:51:33Z
dc.date.issued	2008	en
dc.identifier.issn	17433541	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/35557
dc.subject	Air emissions	en
dc.subject	Best available techniques	en
dc.subject	Externalities	en
dc.subject	Steel industry	en
dc.subject.other	conference proceeding	en
dc.subject.other	cost-benefit analysis	en
dc.subject.other	economic conditions	en
dc.subject.other	emission	en
dc.subject.other	environmental effect	en
dc.subject.other	pollution control	en
dc.subject.other	steel	en
dc.subject.other	viability	en
dc.subject.other	Eurasia	en
dc.subject.other	Europe	en
dc.subject.other	Greece	en
dc.subject.other	Southern Europe	en
dc.title	Assessing the external costs and the economic viability of the Greek steel industry	en
heal.type	conferenceItem	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.2495/EEIA080071	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/EEIA080071	en
heal.publicationDate	2008	en
heal.abstract	In recent years, legislative requirements and environmental policies at European, as well as national, level seek to internalize the environmental impacts that have been traditionally viewed as externalities, in order to come up with more informed and fair choices. The IPPC (Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control) Directive 96/61/EC lays down a framework requiring Member States to issue operating permits for certain installations based on best available techniques (BAT) in order to achieve a high level of protection of the environment. This framework gives clearly importance to economic aspects. More specific, the environmental effects of an installation or a sector are compared against the costs for taking preventive measures against pollution, in order to determine which, if any, meet the criteria of BAT. The scope of the paper is to explore the effects of BAT implementation in the Greek steel sector towards eliminating air emissions from steel production. The analysis is based on pollutant emissions gathered by reports prepared for the European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER) and on external costs, in terms of euros per tonne of pollutant emitted, generated by European Programmes. The externalities estimated are compared to important financial indicators of individual steel producers and of the sector, as well, in order to provide necessary input for assessing the economic viability of the industry under investigation. © 2008 WIT Press.	en
heal.journalName	WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.2495/EEIA080071	en
dc.identifier.volume	108	en
dc.identifier.spage	65	en
dc.identifier.epage	74	en