Acknowledgements
The European Atlas of Natural Radiation (EANR) is the result of fruitful collaboration between more than 100 experts from national and international institutions, universities and research centres around Europe. We acknowledge all of the contributing Authors and Reviewers: without their contributions, support and encouragement this publication would not have been possible.
We would like to thank the Advisory Committee, Valeria Gruber and Peter Bossew, for having worked from the beginning of the project with constant passion and dedication as well as Grégoire Dubois, who, as one of the founders of the Atlas project, did invaluable work to explore and develop the concept and establishing a European network of institutions and experts.
Two Heads of Unit, Franck Wastin and Willem Janssens, are acknowledged for their managerial support to the project.
We also would like to express our great thanks to the JRC Radioactivity Environmental Monitoring group (JRC, Ispra), in particular Luca De Felice, Konstantins Bogučarskis, Stefano Vanzo, Pier Valerio Tognoli and Daniel Jianu for their constant assistance in technical issues and in developing the EANR website. Also, for providing support, we acknowledge Elena Moneta, Fanny May and Gabriele Tamborini.
Our special thanks go to Ian Dewsbery from Lovell Johns Ltd. (UK) for his professional guidance in graphic design and cartography, for keeping our scientific, sometimes overenthusiastic, ideas within publication limits and for turning them into an attractive and modern-looking atlas. William Adnams gave his expertise in GIS/cartographic matters, Clare Varney provided graphical assistance and Symon Porteous smoothed out the contractual details.
The EU Publications Office and the JRC Central IP Service are acknowledged for their assistance and guidance.
The topic of natural radiation is of great significance to the scientific community, population and national authorities; the latter are thanked for their support and for their agreement on the final version of the maps. We apologise for any unintentional omissions; it is impossible to credit all the people who gave their direct or indirect contribution.
Editorial Board
| Cinelli, Giorgia | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy |
| De Cort, Marc | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy |
| Tollefsen, Tore | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy |
Advisory Committee
| Bossew, Peter | German Federal Office for Radiation Protection, Berlin, Germany |
| Gruber, Valeria | Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Department for Radon and Radioecology, Linz, Austria |
Contributing Authors
| Achatz, Michaela | German Federal Office for Radiation Protection, Berlin, Germany |
| Ajtić, Jelena | Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia |
| Ballabio, Cristiano | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy |
| Barnet, Ivan | Czech Geological Survey, Prague, Czech Republic |
| Borelli, Pasquale | Environmental Geosciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland |
| Bossew, Peter | German Federal Office for Radiation Protection, Berlin, Germany |
| Brattich, Erika | Department of Physics and Astronomy, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy |
| Briganti, Alessandra | Department of Science, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy |
| Castelluccio, Mauro | Department of Science, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy |
| Chiaberto, Enrico | Regional Agency for the Protection of the Environment, Piemonte, Italy |
| Cinelli, Giorgia | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy |
| Ciotoli, Giancarlo | National Research Council, Rome, Italy |
| Coletti, Chiara | Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy |
| Cucchi, Anselmo | Regional Agency for the Protection of the Environment, Piemonte, Italy |
| Daraktchieva, Zornitza | Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Public Health England, Chilton, UK |
| De Cort, Marc | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy |
| Domingos, Filipa | Department of Earth Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal |
| Dudar, Tamara | Department of Environmental Studies, National Aviation University, Kiev, Ukraine |
| Elío, Javier | Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland |
| Falletti, Paolo | Regional Agency for the Protection of the Environment, Piemonte, Italy |
| Ferreira, Antonio | British Geological Survey, Keyworth, UK |
| Finne, Ingvild Engen | Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Østerås, Norway |
| Fuente Merino, Ismael | University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain |
| Galli, Gianfranco | Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy |
| García-Talavera, Marta | Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear, Madrid, Spain |
| Gruber, Valeria | Department for Radon and Radioecology, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Linz, Austria |
| Gutiérrez Villanueva, José-Luis | Radonova Laboratories, Uppsala, Sweden |
| Hernandez-Ceballos, Miguel Angel | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy |
| Hoffmann, Marcus | Radon Competence Centre, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Canobbio, Switzerland |
| Iurlaro, Giorgia | Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Ispra, Italy |
| Ivanova, Kremena | National Centre of Radiobiology and Radiation Protection, Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Jones, Arwyn | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy |
| Kovalenko, Grygoriy | Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Ecological Problems, Kharkiv, Ukraine |
| Kozak, Krzysztof | Institute of Nuclear Physics IFJ-PAN, Krakow, Poland |
| Lawley, Russell | British Geological Survey, Keyworth, UK |
| Lehné, Rouwen | Hessian Agency for Nature Conservation, Environment and Geology, Darmstadt, Germany |
| Lister, Bob | British Geological Survey, Keyworth, UK |
| Long, Stephanie | Environmental Protection Agency, Dublin, Ireland |
| Lucchetti, Carlo | Department of Science, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy |
| Magnoni, Mauro | Regional Agency for the Protection of the Environment, Piemonte, Italy |
| Matolin, Milan | Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic |
| Mazur, Jadwiga | Institute of Nuclear Physics IFJ-PAN, Krakow, Poland |
| Mazzoli, Claudio | Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy |
| Mollo, Mara | Mara Mollo Total Consulting, Vercelli, Italy |
| Mostacci, Domiziano | Department of Industrial Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy |
| Mundigl, Stefan | European Commission, Directorate-General Energy, Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Unit, Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| Nesbor, Dieter | Hessian Agency for Nature Conservation, Environment and Geology, Darmstadt, Germany |
| Neves, Luis | Department of Earth Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal |
| Nikolov, Jovana | Faculty of Sciences, Department of Physics, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia |
| Nogarotto, Alessio | University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy |
| Onischenko, Aleksandra | Institute of Industrial Ecology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia |
| Orgiazzi, Alberto | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy |
| Pacherová, Petra | Czech Geological Survey, Prague, Czech Republic |
| Panagos, Panos | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy |
| Pereira, Alcides | Department of Earth Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal |
| Pokalyuk, Vladimir | Institute of Environmental Geochemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine |
| Quindós Poncela, Luis Santiago | University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain |
| Sassi, Raffaele | Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy |
| Smedley, Pauline | British Geological Survey, Keyworth, UK |
| Soligo, Michele | Department of Sciences, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy |
| Stoulos, Stylianos | Nuclear Physics Laboratory, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece |
| Szabó, Katalin | Nuclear Security Department, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Energy Research, Budapest, Hungary |
| Täht-Kok, Krista | Geological Survey of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia |
| Todorović, Nataša | Faculty of Sciences, Department of Physics, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia |
| Tollefsen, Tore | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy |
| Tuccimei, Paola | Department of Sciences, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy |
| Turtiainen, Tuukka | Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Helsinki, Finland |
| Tye, Andrew | British Geological Survey, Keyworth, UK |
| Udovičić, Vladimir | Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia |
| Vasilyev, Aleksey | Institute of Industrial Ecology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia |
| Verdelocco, Stefania | Conseil et Etude en Radioprotection, Ispra, Italy |
| Verkhovtsev, Valentyn | Institute of Environmental Geochemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine |
| Voltaggio, Mario | Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria, National Research Council, Rome, Italy |
| Zhukova, Olga | Republican Centre for Hydrometeorology, Control of Radioactive Contamination, and Environmental Monitoring, Minsk, Belarus |
| Zhukovsky, Michael | Institute of Industrial Ecology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia |
Reviewers
| Bochicchio, Francesco | National Center for Radiation Protection and Computational Physics – Italian National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy |
| Braga, Roberto | Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali Bologna, Italy |
| Carpentieri, Carmela | National Center for Radiation Protection and Computational Physics – Italian National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy |
| Castellani, Carlo Maria | Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Bologna, Italy |
| De France, Jennifer | World Health Organization, Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Dehandschutter, Boris | Federal Agency for Nuclear Control, Bruxelles, Belgium |
| Di Carlo, Christian | National Center for Radiation Protection and Computational Physics – Italian National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy |
| Elío, Javier | Geology, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland |
| Fontana, Claudia | Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment, Rome, Italy |
| German, Olga | International Atomic Energy Agency, Radiation Safety and Monitoring Section, Vienna, Austria |
| Grossi, Claudia | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain |
| Gruber, Valeria | Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety Department for Radon and Radioecology, Linz, Austria |
| Hernandez-Ceballos, Miguel Angel | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy |
| Iurlaro, Giorgia | Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Ispra, Italy |
| Jobbagy, Viktor | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Geel, Belgium |
| Matolin, Milan | Charles University, Faculty of Science, Institute of Hydrogeology, Engineering Geology and Applied Geophysics, Prague, Czech Republic |
| McLaughlin, James | School of Physics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland |
| Mundigl, Stefan | European Commission, Directorate-General Energy, Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Unit, Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| Neznal, Matej | RADON v.o.s., Prague, Czech Republic |
| Perez, Maria Del Rosario | World Health Organization, Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Rossi, Francois | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Petten, Netherlands |
| Sangiorgi, Marco | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy |
| Simic, Zdenko | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Petten, Netherlands |
| Socciarelli, Silvia | Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment, Rome, Italy |
| Tolton, Richelle | International Atomic Energy Agency, Radiation Safety and Monitoring Section, Vienna, Austria |
| Venoso, Gennaro | National Center for Radiation Protection and Computational Physics – Italian National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy |
The European Radon Association (ERA) (http://radoneurope.org/) contributed by writing the summary for each chapter. The following ERA members are acknowledged:
| Dehandschutter, Boris | Federal Agency for Nuclear Control, Bruxelles, Belgium |
| Gutiérrez Villanueva, José-Luis | Radonova Laboratories, Uppsala, Sweden |
| Hansen, Maria | GM Scientific, Bristol, UK |
| Hurst, Stephanie | Saxon state ministry of the environment and agriculture Radiation Protection, Genetic Engineering, Chemicals, Dresden Germany |
| Kozak, Krzysztof | Institute of Nuclear Physics IFJ-PAN, Krakow, Poland |
| Mazur, Jadwiga | Institute of Nuclear Physics IFJ-PAN, Krakow, Poland |
| McLaughlin, James | University College Dublin School of Physics Dublin, Dublin, Ireland |
| Nilsson, Per | Driftwood consulting, Visby, Sweden |
| Pressyanov, Dobromir | University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Ringer, Wolfgang | Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety Department for Radon and Radioecology, Linz, Austria |
| Udovičić, Vladimir | Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia |