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The focus of the paper is on methodology of the radioecological assessment of impacts of the Chernobyl accident after-effects on the environment and populations from a case study in Belarussain forest ecosystems.

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Dvornik, A. (2003). Radioecological Assessment of Forest Ecosystems After Nuclear Accidents. In: Rasmussen, R.O., Koroleva, N.E. (eds) Social and Environmental Impacts in the North: Methods in Evaluation of Socio-Economic and Environmental Consequences of Mining and Energy Production in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic. NATO Science Series, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1054-2_9

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