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Risk Assessment and Prediction of Air Pollution Disasters in Four Chinese Regions

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  • Guoqu Deng

    (School of Management, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China)

  • Hu Chen

    (School of Management, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China)

  • Bo Xie

    (School of Management, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China)

  • Mengtian Wang

    (School of Management, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China)

Abstract

Evaluating the regional trends of air pollution disaster risk in areas of heavy industry and economically developed cities is vital for regional sustainable development. Until now, previous studies have mainly adopted a traditional weighted comprehensive evaluation method to analyze the air pollution disaster risk. This research has integrated principal component analysis (PCA), a genetic algorithm (GA) and a backpropagation (BP) neural network to evaluate the regional disaster risk. Hazard risk, hazard-laden environment sensitivity, hazard-bearing body vulnerability and disaster resilience were used to measure the degree of disaster risk. The main findings were: (1) the air pollution disaster risk index of Liaoning Province, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong Province increased year by year from 2010 to 2019; (2) the mean absolute error (MAE), root mean square error (RMSE) and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of each regional air pollution disaster risk index in 2019, as predicted by the PCA-GA-BP neural network, were 0.607, 0.317 and 20.3%, respectively; (3) the predicted results were more accurate than those using a PCA-BP neural network, GA-BP neural network, traditional BP neural network, support vector regression (SVR) or extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), which verified that machine learning could be used as a method of air pollution disaster risk assessment to a considerable extent.

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  • Guoqu Deng & Hu Chen & Bo Xie & Mengtian Wang, 2022. "Risk Assessment and Prediction of Air Pollution Disasters in Four Chinese Regions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(5), pages 1-22, March.
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