Modelling of Radionuclides and Trace Elements in Forest Ecosystems

Abstract

The main objective of this Working Group was to review and recommend optimal models that could be applied to forest ecosystems to assess the consequences of a potential future accident or routine release of radionuclides. Such models could be used to assist environmental managers and policy regulators in estimating risk to humans and to the environment, to assess the ecological and socioeconomic consequences in guiding policy decisions and to formulate remediation practices. To this end, the Working Group focused on a number of issues including:

• Review of current modelling methods and their underlying databases

• New approaches to modelling

• Identification of areas not addressed by existing models, i.e., compartments, processes, pollutants, etc.

• Recommendations for improving modelling capability.

FootNote

¹Members of the Working Group: W.R. Schell (Chairperson), Y. Thiry (Rapporteur), E. Seymour (Rapporteur), R. Avila, D. Burmistrov, A. Dvornik, S. Fesenko, V. Golizkov, K. Higley, N. Kaletnik, M. Kanevsky, S. Nalezinski, F. Neves, A. Orlov, A. Sidorov, E. Steinres, A. Venter, T. Zhuchenko