It does this by giving someexamples of the damage and havoc wrought in recent tragic events –mudslides, floods, cyclones, earthquakes and theChernobyl disaster. It introduces the concept ofa Geographic Information System where informationderived from remote sensing observations made fromspace is ...
rural landscapeforest fragmentationconnectivityReviews the book "The Chernobyl Disaster" by Marcia Amidon Lusteddoi:doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0924-9338(97)80590-1Rochman, HazelbooklistBBC. The Chernobyl disaster. Viewed Marc...
It also discusses the responses and countermeasures utilised to combat the effects of the accident, as well as considering the health, social, psychological and economic impacts on the human population.Chernobyl - Catastrophe and Consequences§provides a comprehensive assessment of the Chernobyl accident ...
What do you think when you see how victims of Chernobyl disaster live today? Good start – the questions are a very good way to get your reader’s attention.) All of those issues are just because of one reason – the safety problem ...
Successful solutions could be based on an inclusive and transparent policy elaboration aimed at resetting existing conservation tools to more acceptable ones with a parallel “ratcheting up” of enforcement and monitoring, which are grossly underpowered at the moment. This resetting process needs to be...
While we can see many of the changes we've made to the world, some of our impacts are virtually invisible, and land pollution is a good example. You might see factory smoke rising through the air or oil slicks drifting over the ocean, but you can't easily see the poisons that seep ...
How to prevent FNPPs from becoming the Chernobyl at sea has become an issue of concern to all countries and the whole international community. Once a nuclear incident occurs at an FNPP, its radioactive pollution to the marine environment would not be confined by national borders, making radio...
Focuses on the Chernobyl nuclear accident that took in Chornobyl, Ukraine. Implication of the nuclear disaster on the debate concerning the use of nuclear power; Lessons provided by the incident to critics and advocates of nucl...
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka announced the final decision to build a nuclear plant. Chernobyl Way, held in Minsk every April 26, the anniversary of the disaster, remains one of the country's largest opposition rallies....
Reports on the preparation of criminal proceedings against officials involved in the emergency work and cleanup operations after the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster. Accusations of negligence and the abuse of power; Limitation of culpability...