ECONOMIC-ENVIRONMETNTAL ASPECTS OF THE INDUSTRIAL BROWNFIELDS REVITALIZATION AND REUSE

Abstract

Presented article is devoted to the problem of the industrial brownfields and their economic-environmental aspects of revitalization. The issue of industrial brownfield revitalization is becoming nowadays increasingly topical in the public as well as in the private sector. It is a result of the restructuring, which led to the migration of workers from the primary to the secondary or tertiary sector, as well as to the expansion of the industry companies with the subsequent takeover of the valuable land for their realization. The issue of the revitalization and reuse of the former industrial sites raises a number of aspects: environmental, economic, social, cultural development of this kind a territories. Industrial brownfield revitalization provides on the one hand, the elimination of the environmental threats to the territories under the consideration, thereby contribution to the environmental protection, and on the other hand, additional investments in case of their reuse.