Port of Tianjin explosions (China) in Encyclopedia of technological hazards and disasters in the social sciences
Publication Type
Encyclopaedia
Year
11-2024
Abstract
The chemical fire and explosions at Tianjin city’s port in China on August 12, 2015, killed 165 individuals and injured almost 800. More than 300 buildings, 12,000 vehicles, and 7,500 shipping containers were damaged in its wake. Costing at least US$9 billion, it was the most significant human-made disruption to the global supply chain in 2015. Its impact went beyond death and material destruction to prompt public reflection and scrutiny on China’s industrial safety. Examining existent literature on the Tianjin port explosions reveals that more needs to be done to understand this event as a technological disaster.
Keywords
Port of Tianjin explosions, Technological disasters, Toxic contamination, Chemical emergency response, Industrial accidents, Risk society
Disciplines
Asian Studies
Subject(s)
Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship
ISSN/ISBN
9781800882195
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
DOI
10.4337/9781800882201.ch81
Version
publishedVersion
Language
eng
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Format
application/PDF
Citation
Lim, Wee-Kiat.
Port of Tianjin explosions (China) in Encyclopedia of technological hazards and disasters in the social sciences. (2024). 500-505.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cmp_research/26
Additional URL
http://doi.org/10.4337/9781800882201.ch81