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

1986年的切尔诺贝利事故导致10万多人立即从一大片土地上永久撤离，建立了切尔诺贝利隔离区（CEZ）。在作为永久撤离区30年之后，乌克兰正在积极考虑经济特区的其他选择。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隔离区管理机构（SAUZEM）为其未来的管理制定一项新的战略。iCLEAR项目的目的是支持SAUZEM和ECOCENTRE制定这一长期战略，以我们的NERC科学为基础，开发CEZ的第一个环境管理信息系统（EMIS），并在CEZ管理情景规划的第一次利益相关者咨询活动中提供信息。英国和乌克兰团队将共同努力开发一个利益相关者知情的EMIS，为最终用户提供评估管理方案所需的关键科学问题的明确答案。这将包括评估目前和未来对人类和野生动物的辐射风险的空间分布，并确定该区域资源的空间分布。对乌克兰来说，经济特区是农业、野生动物保护和（在10公里的近区域内）放射性废物处理的独特而重要的潜在资源。这一建议通过支持乌克兰增加其农业生产用地来满足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为农业用途，那么新开发的土地价值将超过1亿美元。但是，由于经济特区的政治和情感意义，在经济特区实施变革是非常复杂的。因此，未来区域战略必须以现有的最佳科学证据为基础，并尽可能开放，使用国际推荐的方法进行利益相关者的沟通和参与。申请人、合作机构（乌克兰农业放射学研究所、乌克兰水文气象研究所、UHMI）和最终用户拥有广泛的数据和资源，可以为决策确定的关键问题提供答案。其中包括关键监测数据和GIS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紧急拨款“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地图数据，这些独特但未经整合的数据集将被纳入一个新的基于GIS的EMIS。该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和利益相关者小组的长期可持续性是一个关键的项目目标。这将通过在终端用户机构积极参与其发展期间将电子管理信息系统纳入其内部来确保。该项目将包括在最终用户机构内整合工具，确保它满足他们的需求并能够交付必要的结果。该系统将用于在与当地社区、工业（林业和农业国有企业）和其他利益攸关方正在制定和实施新的CEZ战略的相互作用中解释当前和未来辐射风险的分布。iCLEAR的结果将直接关系到其他废弃领土的管理，特别是在邻近的白俄罗斯和日本福岛县。项目小组与这些地区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.