title: [Spatial and temporal changes of emerging environmental pollution accidents and impact factors in China].
abstract: Based on environmental statistics data from 1993 to 2005, spatial distribution and temporal tendency of the environmental pollution and destruction accidents and their external causes were analyzed by using GIS and non-parametric correlation methods. It was concluded that (1) during the study period, annual environmental pollution accidents was maximally 3001 times in 1994 and minimally 1406 in 2005, while the frequency decreased in general. In addition, water and air accidents occupied the most; (2) environmental pollution and destruction accidents centralized in southeast and middle parts of China, mainly in Hunan, Sichuan, and Guangxi; (3) factors including population, GDP, company number and industrial waste water discharge had positive impacts on frequency of environmental pollution and destruction accidents, while in developed provinces the frequency was only correlated with company number.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China. lijing_cadx@163.com
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yong-long
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Lü
authors.forename: Gui-zhen
authors.initials: GZ
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Tie-yu
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Ya-juan
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Shi
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D004463:Ecology / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000032:analysis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005544:Forecasting; D040362:Geographic Information Systems