Challenges for introducing risk assessment into land use planning decisions in an Indian context

Autor: A. Sengupta, Anne van der Veen, Cees J. van Westen, Sandip Roy, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay
Přispěvatelé: Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-Information Management, Department of Earth Systems Analysis, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, UT-I-ITC-4DEarth
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Major Accident Hazards
Engineering
United-Kingdom
Underline
General Chemical Engineering
0211 other engineering and technologies
India
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Context (language use)
Legislation
METIS-314093
02 engineering and technology
Management Science and Operations Research
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Hazardous waste
Societal Risk Estimation
0502 economics and business
Operations management
050207 economics
Safety
Risk
Reliability and Quality
Environmental planning
Netherlands
021110 strategic
defence & security studies
Land use
business.industry
Population Estimation
05 social sciences
Land-use planning
22/4 OA procedure
Vicinity
Countries
Bhopal Gas Tragedy
Control and Systems Engineering
ITC-ISI-JOURNAL-ARTICLE
Landuse Planning
Industrial Accidents
business
Risk assessment
Zoning
Food Science
Zdroj: Journal of loss prevention in the process industries, 42, 14-26. Elsevier
ISSN: 0950-4230
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2015.10.007
Popis: The 1984 Bhopal accident in India resulted in severe consequences with more than a thousand people dying in the immediate vicinity of the Union Carbide facility. After this tragedy, the implementation of landuse and zoning restrictions around hazardous installations got accepted worldwide as an important strategy reducing consequences from potential industrial accidents. Many European countries have already formulated specific landuse planning policies taking industrial risks into account. However, till date India is yet to effectively employ risk assessment techniques for landuse planning decisions around industrial clusters, as well as the relevant acceptability or tolerability criteria are yet to be formulated. In this paper, we have applied the classical quantitative risk assessment method to map cumulative risk levels arising from a number of hazardous installations located in Haldia, a densely populated area where several industrial plants storing and processing dangerous substances are located. The risk maps were prepared using common GIS tools and functions, and their sensitivity to various factors ascertained using uncertainty analysis techniques. Through the analysis of some reference plants, the aim of the paper is to underline the current difficulties an analyst has to face to determine confident risk maps as a basis for planning the uses of land due to deficiencies in the Indian legislation and the lack of guidelines. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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