This is the first detailed study of the ecological impact of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion on 26 April, 1986 - the largest civil nuclear catastrophe of all time. Geneticist Vladimir Savchenko details the effects of high level radionuclide release on the environment, on natural ecosystems, and on agroecosystems; the human effects then and now; the impact of radionuclide release on biological diversity and genetic systems; and the socioeconomic effects of the Chernobyl catastrophe. He also describes the Chernobyl Ecological Sciences Network, a multinational information network dealing with the large-scale, multidimensional effects of human technology out of control. The book has a bibliography, an index, and a glossary of units, ratios, and acronyms.
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The increasing impact on the global environment of human activities in the fields of extracting industries, implementation of large-scale energy projects, development of the transport network, expansion of industrial and agricultural complexes as well as the growth of modern urban megalopolises is changing the unstable equilibrium between biosphere and technosphere. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
agroecological monitoring, polluted territories, radionuclide pollution, radioecological monitoring, radioecological situation, migrational pathways, radionuclide impact, permissible dose limits, radiological situation, phenetic structure, agricultural countermeasures, associative selection, human irradiation, relocation zone, foodstuff contamination, alternative scientific hypotheses, contaminated territories, radionuclide content, fourth reactor, mutational load, radionuclide contamination, radionuclide transfer, further sustainable development, genetic monitoring, mutation load Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ecology of the Chernobyl, United Nations, Russian Federation, Chernobyl Ecological Science Network, Chernobyl Programme, Gomel Oblast, International Atomic Energy Agency, Black Sea, Radiological Protection, International Commission, Minsk Oblast, World Health Organization, Baltic Sea, Mogilev Oblast, National Committees New!
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The increasing impact on the global environment of human activities in the fields of extracting industries, implementation of large-scale energy projects, development of the transport network, expansion of industrial and agricultural complexes as well as the growth of modern urban megalopolises is changing the unstable equilibrium between biosphere and technosphere. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
agroecological monitoring, polluted territories, radionuclide pollution, radioecological monitoring, radioecological situation, migrational pathways, radionuclide impact, permissible dose limits, radiological situation, phenetic structure, agricultural countermeasures, associative selection, human irradiation, relocation zone, foodstuff contamination, alternative scientific hypotheses, contaminated territories, radionuclide content, fourth reactor, mutational load, radionuclide contamination, radionuclide transfer, further sustainable development, genetic monitoring, mutation load Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ecology of the Chernobyl, United Nations, Russian Federation, Chernobyl Ecological Science Network, Chernobyl Programme, Gomel Oblast, International Atomic Energy Agency, Black Sea, Radiological Protection, International Commission, Minsk Oblast, World Health Organization, Baltic Sea, Mogilev Oblast, National Committees New!
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- Sustainable Development and Environmental Management of Small Islands (Advances in Gynecology and Obstetrics Series) by W. Beller in Front Matter
- Sustainable Investment and Resource Use: Equity, Environmental Integrity and Economic Efficiency by M. D. Young in Front Matter
- Reproductive Ecology of Tropical Forest Plants by K.S. Bawa in Front Matter
- Shifting Agriculture and Sustainable Development: An Interdisciplinary Study from North-Eastern India (Man and the Biosphere Series) by P.S. Ramakrishnan in Front Matter
- Exploiting the Tropical Rain Forest: An Account of Pulpwood Logging in Papua New Guinea (Man and the Biosphere Series) by D. Lamb in Front Matter
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- Ecology: Principles and Applications by J. L. Chapman in Back Matter
- Agro-Ecological Farming Systems in China (Man and the Biosphere Series) by Wenhua Li in Front Matter
- Freshwater Wetlands and their Sustainable Future: A Case Study of Trebon Basin Biosphere Reserve, Czech Republic by Jan Kvet in Front Matter
- Assessment and Control of Nonpoint Source Pollution of Aquatic Ecosystems: A Practical Approach by J.A. Thornton in Front Matter
- Environmental Justice: Creating Equity, Reclaiming Democracy (Environmental Ethics & Science Policy) by Kristin Shrader-Frechette in Back Matter
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