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The ecology of the Chernobyl catastrophe
| Author | V.K.Savchenko |
| Date | 1995 |
| Classification | 2.34.8.10/89 (CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT - CONSEQUENCES SURROUNDINGS - GENERAL) |
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MAN AND THE BIOSPHERE SERIES Series Editor J.N.R. Jeffers VOLUME 16 THE ECOLOGY OF THE CHERNOBYL CATASTROPHE Scientific Outlines of an International Programme of Collaborative Research When reactor number 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded on 26 April 1986, it permanently changed the lives of more than 4 million people living in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia, and led to a whole swathe of economic, environmental, social, medical and political repercussions. The present volume reviews eight years' study of the ecological impact of Chernobyl on the environment, natural ecosystems, agro-ecosystems, human ecology, biological diversity, and genetic and socio-economic systems, with each of seven chapters containing an overview of present understanding, scientific hypotheses and research recommendations. A final chapter describes the setting up and aims of the multinational and multidimensional Chernobyl Ecological Science Network. It is hoped that the volume will provide a useful source of information and reference to researchers and others concerned with the post-Chernobyl phenomenon, and more broadly with the large-scale, multidimensional effects of human technology that is allowed to get out of control. The author is geneticist Vladimir Savchenko, member of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus in Minsk.
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