title: Assessing Major Accident Risks to Support Land-Use Planning Using a Severity-Vulnerability Combination Method: A Case Study in Dagushan Peninsula, China.
abstract: Major accident risks posed by chemical hazards have raised major social concerns in today's China. Land-use planning has been adopted by many countries as one of the essential elements for accident prevention. This article aims at proposing a method to assess major accident risks to support land-use planning in the vicinity of chemical installations. This method is based on the definition of risk by the Accidental Risk Assessment Methodology for IndustrieS (ARAMIS) project and it is an expansion application of severity and vulnerability assessment tools. The severity and vulnerability indexes from the ARAMIS methodology are employed to assess both the severity and vulnerability levels, respectively. A risk matrix is devised to support risk ranking and compatibility checking. The method consists of four main steps and is presented in geographical information-system-based maps. As an illustration, the proposed method is applied in Dagushan Peninsula, China. The case study indicated that the method could not only aid risk regulations on existing land-use planning, but also support future land-use planning by offering alternatives or influencing the plans at the development stage, and thus further enhance the roles and influence of land-use planning in the accident prevention activities in China.
authors: Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), Dalian University of Technology, China.
authors: Shuming
authors: S
authors: Ma
authors: Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), Dalian University of Technology, China.
authors: Shushen
authors: S
authors: Zhang
authors: Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), Dalian University of Technology, China.
authors: Chen
authors: C
authors: Yu
authors: Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), Dalian University of Technology, China.
authors: Hongbo
authors: H
authors: Zheng
authors: Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), Dalian University of Technology, China.
authors: Guobao
authors: G
authors: Song
authors: Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), Dalian University of Technology, China.
authors: Henry Musoke
authors: HM
authors: Semakula
authors: Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, China.
authors: Yingying
authors: Y
authors: Chai
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents; D002681:China; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D040362:Geographic Information Systems; D018570:Risk Assessment
keywords: ARAMIS; chemical hazards; land-use planning; risk assessment