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Investment projects aimed at brownfield revitalization have significant potential for the economic development of the area where they are located. Such a project usually removes old environmental burdens or deals with a problem with non-functional or dilapidated buildings. However, an appropriately set investment plan which respects internal territorial economic connections as well as the character of surrounding environment can provide solutions to other regional problems or implement economically beneficial acti...

The paper is focused on the issue of the economic evaluation of brownfield revitalization, which served as a power plant, but today is primarily intended for society. It is a relatively small former diesel power plant in the center of the town of Piestany in western Slovakia, which started producing electricity in 1906. In 1996, the building was included in the national cultural heritage and in 2009 began to be revitalized for wider social use, such as exhibitions, galleries, various free children's educational ev...

The paper is focused on the issue of the economic evaluation of biotope impacts and changes, caused by the revitalization of brownfields, in types of abandoned minning areas. The biotope changes evaluation is often the primary and most valubale benefit of revitalization of this type of brownfield. One way to evaluate the value of biotope changes is using some of known methodologies of biotope evaluation. One of them is called Methodology of biotope revitalization by nature and landscape protection agency, which is...