Remedial policies in radiologically-contaminated forests: Environmental consequences and risk assessment

Risk Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 67-75

  Linkov, Igor ^a,c   Morel, Benoit ^a   Schell, William R ^a,b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

forest management; modeling; radiation dose; Remediation; risk analysis

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONTAMINATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOREST; HUMAN; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; FOREST IMPACT; MANAGEMENT IMPLICATION; MODELLING APPROACH; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RISK ANALYSIS;

BELARUS;

COSTS; DOSIMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HEALTH HAZARDS; PUBLIC POLICY; RADIOISOTOPES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST REMEDIATION;

NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS;

EID: 0030616106     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1997.tb00844.x     Document Type: Article

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