Role of GIS in Lifting the Cloud Off Chernobyl

The 15th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster offered a timely opportunity for an expert assessment of the current situation and suggestions for approaches to managing the information associated with the site and surrounding contaminated territories. The great quantity of data c...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kolejka, Jaromir (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2002, 2002
Edition:1st ed. 2002
Series:NATO Science Series: IV:, Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Situation Assessment for Mitigation Activities: Tools for Building Geographic Knowledge. From Geodata to Geoinformation to Geoknowledge?
  • The Dnieper River Basin Challenge: Local and International Response to an Environmental and Human Health Crisis
  • Providing Information in Relation to Chernobyl and the Role of GIS
  • The Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident: First Results in the Radioecology Project of the French-German Initiative
  • Development of the Data Base: Nuclear Fuel And Radioactive Waste, Environmental Impact, and Radiological Situation in Chernobyl NPP 4th Block “Shelter”
  • From Image Maps to Decision Making
  • The Chernobyl Sarcophagus Project of the German-French Initiative
  • Radon Risk Assessment in GIS
  • The Run-Off in Natural and Agricultural Environments
  • Waste Dumps Around Chornobyl Power Plant: Actual State and Future
  • The Problem of Waste: Searching for GIS Solution
  • Countermeasures on Natural and Agricultural Areas After Chernobyl Accident
  • List of Contributors