Land use in agricultural landscapes with chernozems contaminated after Chernobyl accident: Can we be confident in radioecological safety of plant foodstuff?

Komissarova, Olga; Paramonova, T. A.

doi:10.1016/j.iswcr.2019.03.001

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“…0.5 to 1.0 billion people at risk Zinc-deficiency impairs wound healing and immunity Source: Table based on Oliver, 299 Oliver and Gregory, 14 Brevik et al, 290 and Steffan et al 56 soil through the consumption of crops and cattle raised on those soils. 57 A recent study carried out by Komissarova and Paramonova 58 in an area affected by the Chernobyl accident found that some areas still exceeded the 137 Cs safety standard by 3.5 to 6 times in 2017. Despite this high concentration, the transfer of this radionuclide to crops and forages was limited.…”

Section: Remerging As a Problem In Europe 740 Million People Currentmentioning

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Soil and Human Health: Current Status and Future Needs

Brevik

Slaughter

Singh

et al. 2020

Air, Soil and Water Research

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Soil influences human health in a variety of ways, with human health being linked to the health of the soil. Historically, emphasis has been placed on the negative impacts that soils have on human health, including exposures to toxins and pathogenic organisms or the problems created by growing crops in nutrient-deficient soils. However, there are a number of positive ways that soils enhance human health, from food production and nutrient supply to the supply of medications and enhancement of the immune system. It is increasingly recognized that the soil is an ecosystem with a myriad of interconnected parts, each influencing the other, and when all necessary parts are present and functioning (ie, the soil is healthy), human health also benefits. Despite the advances that have been made, there are still many areas that need additional investigation. We do not have a good understanding of how chemical mixtures in the environment influence human health, and chemical mixtures in soil are the rule, not the exception. We also have sparse information on how most chemicals react within the chemically and biologically active soil ecosystem, and what those reactions mean for human health. There is a need to better integrate soil ecology and agronomic crop production with human health, food/nutrition science, and genetics to enhance bacterial and fungal sequencing capabilities, metagenomics, and the subsequent analysis and interpretation. While considerable work has focused on soil microbiology, the macroorganisms have received much less attention regarding links to human health and need considerable attention. Finally, there is a pressing need to effectively communicate soil and human health connections to our broader society, as people cannot act on information they do not have. Multidisciplinary teams of researchers, including scientists, social scientists, and others, will be essential to move all these issues forward.

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Section: Remerging As a Problem In Europe 740 Million People Currentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Soil and Human Health: Current Status and Future Needs

Brevik

Slaughter

Singh

et al. 2020

Air, Soil and Water Research

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109

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“…Before the Chernobyl accident, the area was covered with forest, bodies of water and urban centres as shown by Figure 1. After the Chernobyl disaster, drinking water supplies and agricultural produce have become an increasingly serious issue for the local people in the region due to the radioactive contamination (Drozd et al, 2015;Komissarova et al, 2019).…”

Section: Environmental Injustice In Chernobyl Nuclear Accidentmentioning

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Environmental Justice and Nuclear Accidents: The Case of Chernobyl Disaster

Akyüz

2021

International Journal of Environment and Geoinformatics

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Nuclear energy is one of the most important components of the world electricity supply in today's world. It provides approximately 21% of electricity in OECD countries. However, there has been a growing social and academic debate over the use of nuclear energy because the fact that there have been serious incidents and accidents at nuclear power stations indicates that the security risk associated with NPPs is not low. Particularly major nuclear accidents, Fukushima and Chernobyl, can cause the release of radiation into the environment. However, environmental contamination is not shared equally among people who trigger environmental injustice issues. There has been no comprehensive research that investigates nuclear accidents from the perspective of environmental justice theory so far. The main purpose of this study is to argue whether or not nuclear accidents cause environmental injustice. The results show that the major nuclear accident, the Chernobyl, has caused distributive and intergenerational environmental injustice.

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“…Soil erosion causes land degradation, which can lead to problems in water and food security worldwide (Auerswald & Kutilek, 1998; de Vente, Poesen, & Verstraeten, 2013; Fang, Wang, & Shi, 2017; Komissarova & Paramonova, 2019). In China, soil erosion has become a serious environmental issue that limits the sustainable development of the economy (Abbas, Warrington, & Lei, 2019; Guo, Ma, Cai, et al, 2018; Wu, Jiang, Li, & Ma, 2018).…”

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Rill erosion processes on a constantly saturated slope

Huang

Wang

2020

Hydrological Processes

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Rill erosion processes on saturated soil slopes are important for understanding erosion hydrodynamics and determining the parameters of rill erosion models. Saturated soil slopes were innovatively created to investigate the rill erosion processes. Rill erosion processes on saturated soil slopes were modelled by using the sediment concentrations determined by sediment transport capacities (STCs) measurement and the sediment concentrations at different rill lengths. Laboratory experiments were performed under varying slope gradients (5°, 10°, 15°, and 20°) and unit‐width flow rates (0.33, 0.67, and 1.33 × 10−3 m3 s−1 m−1) to measure sediment concentrations at different rill lengths (1, 2, 4, and 8 m) on saturated soil slopes. The measured sediment concentrations along saturated rills ranged from 134.54 to 1,064.47 kg/m3, and also increased exponentially with rill length similar to non‐saturated rills. The model of the rill erosion process in non‐saturated soil rills was applicable to that in saturated soil rills. However, the sediment concentration of the rill flow increased much faster, with the increase in rill length, to considerably higher levels at STCs. The saturated soil rills produced 120–560% more sediments than the non‐saturated ones. Moreover, the former eroded remarkably faster in the beginning section of the rills, as compared with that on the non‐saturated soil slopes. This dataset serves as the basis for determining the erosion parameters in the process‐based erosion models on saturated soil slopes.

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Land use in agricultural landscapes with chernozems contaminated after Chernobyl accident: Can we be confident in radioecological safety of plant foodstuff?

Cited by 9 publications

References 15 publications

Soil and Human Health: Current Status and Future Needs

Soil and Human Health: Current Status and Future Needs

Environmental Justice and Nuclear Accidents: The Case of Chernobyl Disaster

Rill erosion processes on a constantly saturated slope

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