Influence of local geological data and geographical parameters to assess regional health impact in LCA. Tomsk oblast’, Russian Federation application case
Belyanovskaya A. Soktoev B. Laratte B. Ageeva E. Baranovskaya N. Korogod N.
December 2022Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
2022#29Issue 5887281 - 87297 pp.
The research paper is aimed to modify the human health impact assessment of Cr in soils. The current article presents the input of several critical parameters for the human health Impact Score (IShum) assessment in soils. The modification of the IShum is derived using geological data — results of neutron activation analysis of soils are used in the IShum calculation; research area is divided using the watersheds and population size and density. Watersheds reflect the local environmental conditions of the territory unlike the administrative units (geographical areas of the studied region) due to their geological independence. The calculations of the characterization factor value underestimate the influence of the population size and density on the final result. Default characterization factor values cannot be considered during the assessment of the potential human health impact for the big sparsely inhabited areas. In case of very low population density, the result will be overrated and underestimated in the opposite case. The current approach demonstrates that the geographical separation in the USEtox model should be specified. The same approach can be utilized for other geo zones due to the accessibility of this information (area size, population size, and density, geological, and landscape features).
Cr , Heavy metals , Impact assessment models , LCIA , Regional impact assessment , USEtox
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Division for Geology at Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russian Federation
Laboratory of Sedimentology and Paleobiosphere Evolution, Tyumen, Russian Federation
Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology, University of Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, INRAE, I2M, Bordeaux, Talence, F-33400, France
High School of Natural Science at Pavlodar State Pedagogical University, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan
Division for Geology at Tomsk Polytechnic University
Laboratory of Sedimentology and Paleobiosphere Evolution
Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology
High School of Natural Science at Pavlodar State Pedagogical University
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