Poland environmental policy

Until the fall of the communist political regime in 1989, the centralised economic system dominated in Poland, largely based on development of heavy industry. Special environmental policy was not carried out. 

Andersson, M. (1999). Change and Continuity in Poland s Environmental Policy, Kluwer Academic Publishers Boston. 

Ministry of Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry of the Republic of Poland. (1991). The National Environmental Policy of Poland, Warsaw. 

Liliana B. Andonova is Assistant Professor of Government and Environmental Studies at Colby College. She is the author of Transnational Politics of the Environment The European Union and Environmental Policies in Central and Eastern Europe (MIT Press). The book compares the regulatory reform and implementation of chemical safety and air pollution policies in three CEE countries Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. Her current research interests include trade and environment issues in transition economies, the role of public-private partnerships in global governance, climate change politics, and the influence of international institutions on the domestic scene. 

The State Environment Protection Inspectorate of Poland is trying to improve Poland s poor environmental record by a name and shame policy of publishing a list of the country s polluters each year.84 Since 1990, the list has dropped from 80 to 69. 

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