Ecology of the Chernobyl Catastrophe

Man and the Biosphere Series, Volume 16

1995 / ISBN 92-3-103161-9 / Hardcover / 200pp / $114.00

V. K. Savchenko

When reactor number four of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded on April
26, 1986, it permanently changed the lives of more than four million people
living in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia, and led to a whole swathe of economic,
environmental, social, medical and political repercussions.

This 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.

This publication 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.