Traits and causes of environmental loss-related chemical accidents in China based on co-word analysis.

Desheng Wu, Yu Song, Kefan Xie, Baofeng Zhang
Author Information
  1. Desheng Wu: Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden.
  2. Yu Song: Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden. songyu602@whut.edu.cn. ORCID
  3. Kefan Xie: School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, No. 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China.
  4. Baofeng Zhang: Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden.

Abstract

Chemical accidents are major causes of environmental losses and have been debated due to the potential threat to human beings and environment. Compared with the single statistical analysis, co-word analysis of chemical accidents illustrates significant traits at various levels and presents data into a visual network. This study utilizes a co-word analysis of the keywords extracted from the Web crawling texts of environmental loss-related chemical accidents and uses the Pearson's correlation coefficient to examine the internal attributes. To visualize the keywords of the accidents, this study carries out a multidimensional scaling analysis applying PROXSCAL and centrality identification. The research results show that an enormous environmental cost is exacted, especially given the expected environmental loss-related chemical accidents with geographical features. Meanwhile, each event often brings more than one environmental impact. Large number of chemical substances are released in the form of solid, liquid, and gas, leading to serious results. Eight clusters that represent the traits of these accidents are formed, including "leakage," "poisoning," "explosion," "pipeline crack," "river pollution," "dust pollution," "emission," and "industrial effluent." "Explosion" and "gas" possess a strong correlation with "poisoning," located at the center of visualization map.

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Grants

  1. 2016YFC0503606/Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China
  2. 71471055/National Natural Science Foundation of China
  3. 91546102/National Natural Science Foundation of China
  4. No. QYZDB-SSW-SYS021/Chinese Academy of Sciences Frontier Scientific Research Key Project
  5. MMW 2015.0007/the Marianne och Marcus Wallenbergs Stiftelse

MeSH Term

Chemical Hazard Release
China
Environmental Monitoring
Environmental Pollution
Humans
Models, Theoretical
Risk Assessment

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