Spatial-temporal hotspot pattern analysis of provincial environmental pollution incidents and related regional sustainable management in China in the period 1995-2012

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 14385-14407

  Ding, Lei ^a   Chen, Kun Lun ^b,c   Liu, Ting ^a   Cheng, Sheng Gao ^a   Wang, Xu ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b HUBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Hubei Key Laboratory of Neurological Diseases   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental pollution incident; Improved prediction accuracy index (IAPI); Spatial Getis Ord Gi* statistic; The spatiotemporal hotspot model

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTION CONTROL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ACTION PLAN; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; POLLUTION INCIDENCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION POLICY; PREDICTION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; YANGTZE RIVER; ZHUJIANG DELTA; YANGTZE DELTA;

EID: 84949457747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su71014385     Document Type: Article

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