The Ecology of the Chernobyl Catastrophe
Subtitle: Scientific Outlines of an International Programme of Collaborative Research (Man and the Biosphere Series)
Publisher: United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Published: February 28, 1996
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9789231031618
Subjects: Environmental impact of industrial disasters; Environmental science; Russia; Applied ecology
First sentence: The increasing impact on the global environment of human activities in the fields of extracting industries, implementation of large-scale energy projects, development of the transport network, expansion of industrial and agricultural complexes as well as the growth of modern urban megalopolises is changing the unstable equilibrium between biosphere and technosphere.