INTERNATIONAL: iCLEAR - Innovating the Chernobyl Landscape: Environmental Assessment for Rehabilitation and Management

1986年切尔诺贝利事故导致10万多人从大片土地上立即永久撤离，形成了切尔诺贝利禁区（CEZ）。在作为永久疏散区超过30年后，乌克兰正在积极考虑CEZ的其他选择。乌克兰总统最近要求该项目的最终用户、切尔诺贝利生态中心和乌克兰国家禁区管理局为今后的管理制定一项新战略。iCLEAR项目的目的是支持SAUZEM和ECOCENTRE制定这一长期战略，方法是利用我们的NERC科学为CEZ开发第一个环境管理信息系统（EMIS），了解CEZ管理情景规划的第一次利益相关者咨询活动。英国和乌克兰团队将共同努力，制定利益相关者-该系统将为最终用户提供管理方案评估所需的关键科学问题的明确答案。这将包括评价目前和未来辐射对人类和野生生物的风险的空间分布，并确定该区资源的空间分布。对乌克兰来说，经济区是农业、野生动物保护和（10公里近区）放射性废物处置的一个独特和重要的潜在资源。该提案通过支持乌克兰增加其农业生产用地，实现了官方发展援助和全球挑战的可持续发展目标。如果只有10-15%的废弃土地可以恢复农业用途，新开发的土地价值将超过1亿美元。但是，由于其政治和情感意义，在CEZ实现变革是非常复杂的。因此，未来的无核武器区战略必须以现有的最佳科学证据为基础，并尽可能开放，采用国际上推荐的利益攸关方沟通和参与方法。申请人、伙伴机构（乌克兰农业放射学研究所和乌克兰水文气象研究所）和最终用户拥有广泛的数据和资源，可以回答为决策确定的关键问题。其中包括关键监测数据和地理信息系统污染图。该项目还将以NERC“TREE”项目提供的新研究为基础，该项目已成功地将CEZ用作研究放射性转移和影响的天然实验室。iCLEAR还将利用在NERC紧急赠款“REDFIRE”范围内开展的关于CEZ森林火灾影响的研究。再加上我们当地项目合作伙伴和最终用户开发的大量监测和绘图数据，这些独特但未合并的数据集将被纳入一个新的基于GIS的EMIS。EMIS将把我们的NERC科学转化为CEZ管理决策的重要科学基础。EMIS和利益相关者群体的长期可持续性是一个关键的项目目标。这将通过在最终用户机构积极参与其开发过程中将教育管理信息系统嵌入这些机构来确保。该项目将包括在最终用户机构内整合该工具，确保该工具满足其需求，并能够交付必要的成果。该系统将用于解释当前和未来辐射风险的分布，并与当地社区、工业（林业和农业国有企业）和其他利益相关者在其正在进行的开发和实施新的CEZ战略中进行互动。iCLEAR的结果将直接关系到其他被遗弃领土的管理，特别是在邻国白俄罗斯和日本福岛县。项目小组与这些领域的行政当局的现有联系将促进知识交流。

The 1986 Chernobyl accident led to the immediate and permanent evacuation of more than 100,000 people from a huge area of land, creating the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ). After >30 years as a permanently evacuated area, other options for the CEZ are now being actively considered in Ukraine. The President of Ukraine has recently requested the end-users of this project, the Chernobyl ECOCENTRE and the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management (SAUZEM) to develop a new strategy for its future management. The purpose of the iCLEAR project is to support SAUZEM and ECOCENTRE in the development of this long term strategy by building on our NERC science to develop the first Environmental Management Information System (EMIS) for the CEZ, informed by the first stakeholder consultation exercise on scenario planning for CEZ management.The UK and Ukrainian team will work together to develop a stakeholder-informed EMIS which will provide the end users with clear answers to the key scientific questions necessary for evaluation of management options. This will include an evaluation of the spatial distribution of present and future risk of radiation to humans and wildlife and determination of the spatial distribution of resources in the zone. For Ukraine, the CEZ represents a unique and important potential resource for agriculture, wildlife conservation and (in the 10 km near-zone) radioactive waste disposal. This proposal meets ODA and Global Challenges sustainable development objectives by supporting Ukraine to increase its agriculturally productive land. If just 10-15% of the abandoned lands could be returned to agricultural use, the newly exploited area would represent a land value in excess of $100 Million. But effecting change in the CEZ is highly complex because of its political and emotional significance. So, it is essential that the future zone strategy is based on the best available scientific evidence and is as open as possible, using internationally recommended methods for stakeholder communication and involvement. The applicants, partner institutes (Ukrainian Institute for Agricultural Radiology, UIAR and Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute, UHMI) and end-users have extensive data and resources to provide answers to the key questions identified for decision-making. These include key monitoring data and GIS contamination maps. The project will also build on new research provided by the NERC "TREE" project which has successfully used the CEZ as a natural laboratory to study transfers and effects of radioactivity. iCLEAR will also use research on the impacts of forest fire in the CEZ developed within the NERC Urgency grant "REDFIRE". Coupled with extensive monitoring and mapping data developed by our local project partners and end users, these unique, but unconsolidated, datasets will be incorporated in a new GIS based EMIS. This EMIS will translate our NERC science into an essential scientific underpinning for CEZ management decision making. Long term sustainability of the EMIS and Stakeholder Group is a key project objective. This will be ensured through the embedding of the EMIS in the end user agencies during their active participation in its development. The project will include consolidation of the tool within the end-users agencies, ensuring it meets their needs and can deliver the necessary outcomes. The system will be used to explain distribution of current and future radiation risk in interactions with local communities, industry (forestry and agricultural state enterprises) and other stakeholders in their ongoing development and implementation of the new CEZ strategy. The results of iCLEAR will have direct relevance to management of other abandoned territories, particularly in neighbouring Belarus and in the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan. Existing links of the project team with administrations of these areas will facilitate knowledge exchange.