Radionuclides and Metals in the Parks of the City of Belgrade, Serbia: Spatial Distribution and Health Risk Assessment
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In urban areas, forest patches and parks are usually the places where people spend most of their time outdoors. Because of poor environmental protection policy and insufficient investment in industry and energy, Serbia is often ranked among the European countries with the greatest environmental pollution. In recent years, ecological protests have been organized throughout the country with the aim of raising ecological awareness and resolving environmental issues. The topic has become particularly popular since the plans for opening new mining areas in western Serbia came to the fore. This study was conducted with the aim to investigate radioactivity levels and metals content in soil and foliage of the most popular parks in Belgrade, the capital and largest city of Serbia. Based on a GIS (geographic information system) approach, the spatial distribution maps of radionuclides (226Ra, 232Th, 40K, 7Be, and 137Cs) and metals (As, Cd, Cr, Co, Cu, Na, Ni, Pb, Zn, K, Ca, Mg, and Mn) were made.... Ambient dose-equivalent rate in air was also measured. The annual effective doses and excess lifetime cancer risk from radionuclides were calculated. Health effects of exposure to heavy metals in soil were estimated by noncarcinogenic and carcinogenic risk assessment.
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radionuclide / metal / soil / park / GIS / risk assessmentSource:
Forests, 2022, 13, 10, 1648-Publisher:
- Basel : MDPI
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- Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, institutional funding - 200123 (University of Priština - Kosovska Mitrovica, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics) (RS-MESTD-inst-2020-200123)
- Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, institutional funding - 200378 (Institute of Information Technology) (RS-MESTD-inst-2020-200378)
- Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, institutional funding - 200091 (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography) (RS-MESTD-inst-2020-200091)
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Geografski fakultetTY - JOUR AU - Gulan, Ljiljana AU - Stajić, Jelena AU - Zeremski, Tijana AU - Durlević, Uroš AU - Valjarević, Aleksandar PY - 2022 UR - http://gery.gef.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1319 AB - In urban areas, forest patches and parks are usually the places where people spend most of their time outdoors. Because of poor environmental protection policy and insufficient investment in industry and energy, Serbia is often ranked among the European countries with the greatest environmental pollution. In recent years, ecological protests have been organized throughout the country with the aim of raising ecological awareness and resolving environmental issues. The topic has become particularly popular since the plans for opening new mining areas in western Serbia came to the fore. This study was conducted with the aim to investigate radioactivity levels and metals content in soil and foliage of the most popular parks in Belgrade, the capital and largest city of Serbia. Based on a GIS (geographic information system) approach, the spatial distribution maps of radionuclides (226Ra, 232Th, 40K, 7Be, and 137Cs) and metals (As, Cd, Cr, Co, Cu, Na, Ni, Pb, Zn, K, Ca, Mg, and Mn) were made. Ambient dose-equivalent rate in air was also measured. The annual effective doses and excess lifetime cancer risk from radionuclides were calculated. Health effects of exposure to heavy metals in soil were estimated by noncarcinogenic and carcinogenic risk assessment. PB - Basel : MDPI T2 - Forests T1 - Radionuclides and Metals in the Parks of the City of Belgrade, Serbia: Spatial Distribution and Health Risk Assessment VL - 13 IS - 10 SP - 1648 DO - 10.3390/f13101648 ER -
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Gulan, L., Stajić, J., Zeremski, T., Durlević, U.,& Valjarević, A.. (2022). Radionuclides and Metals in the Parks of the City of Belgrade, Serbia: Spatial Distribution and Health Risk Assessment. in Forests Basel : MDPI., 13(10), 1648. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13101648
Gulan L, Stajić J, Zeremski T, Durlević U, Valjarević A. Radionuclides and Metals in the Parks of the City of Belgrade, Serbia: Spatial Distribution and Health Risk Assessment. in Forests. 2022;13(10):1648. doi:10.3390/f13101648 .
Gulan, Ljiljana, Stajić, Jelena, Zeremski, Tijana, Durlević, Uroš, Valjarević, Aleksandar, "Radionuclides and Metals in the Parks of the City of Belgrade, Serbia: Spatial Distribution and Health Risk Assessment" in Forests, 13, no. 10 (2022):1648, https://doi.org/10.3390/f13101648 . .