The impacts of fracking on the environment: A total environmental study paradigm
The impacts of fracking on the environment: A total environmental study paradigm
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DOI：
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.045
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发表时间：
2017-02-15
影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
Meng, Qingmin
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作者：
Meng, Qingmin
水力压裂已成为媒体和公众话语中的热门话题，不仅因为其经济效益，而且还因为其环境影响。最近，科学家们调查了水力压裂的环境影响，大多数研究都集中在空气和地下水污染上。需要一个系统的研究结构和对压裂对环境影响的全面评估，因为压裂不仅影响地下水，而且影响大多数环境要素，包括但不限于空气，水，土壤，岩石，植被，野生动物，人类和许多其他生态系统组成部分。本文从总体环境的角度出发，对水力压裂对环境的总体影响进行了评估，并设计了一个总体环境研究范式，有效地考察了总体环境之间的复杂关系。水力压裂极大地改变了大气圈，这反过来又通过水，空气，液体或固体废物排放的显著输入或输出以及水力压裂流体中的复杂化学成分而显著影响大气圈，水圈，岩石圈和生物圈。所提出的fraddng总体环境研究范式可应用于对环境产生巨大影响的其他重大人类活动，例如用于环境研究的山顶煤矿开采或油砂。(C)© 2016 Elsevier B.V.版权所有。
Fracking has become a hot topic in the media and public discourse not only because of its economic benefit but also its environmental impacts. Recently, scientists have investigated the environmental impacts of fracking, and most studies focus on its air and ground water pollution. A systematic research structure and an overall evaluation of fraddng's impacts on the environment are needed, because fracking does not only influence ground water but most environmental elements including but not limited to air, water, soil, rock, vegetation, wildlife, human, and many other ecosystem components. From the standpoint of the total environment, this communication assesses the overall impacts of fracking on the environment and then designs a total environmental study paradigm that effectively examines the complicated relationship among the total environment. Fracking dramatically changes the anthroposphere, which in turn significantly impacts the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere through the significant input or output of water, air, liquid or solid waste disposals, and the complex chemical components in fracking fluids. The proposed total environment study paradigm of fraddng can be applied to other significant human activities that have dramatic impacts on the environment, such as mountain top coal mining or oil sands for environmental studies. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.