Furthermore, the prefecture-based proxy indicator, which was used for intervention identification, may also lead to an ecological fallacy, an accident or underestimation by misclassification.
Second, asking participants to view a film involving real-life footage of the aftermath of road traffic accidents, while having greater ecological validity than some previously used methodologies, is still different from studying naturalistic, personally experienced negative events.
Further, green groups note, the project could spell ecological disaster in the event of an accident.
The spill took over the American imagination - no one thought a single accident would cause so much ecological damage.
Natural and ecological disasters, nuclear weapons, terrorism, experimental technological accidents ("Oops, we've accidentally created Skynet") – they're all in the game.
This was the height of Thatcherism, the old Soviet Union was collapsing in ecological ruin, and there had been serious nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.
In a scenario of mass killing that resembled the Holocaust, leaders of a developed country might follow or induce panic about future shortages and act preemptively, specifying a human group as the source of an ecological problem, destroying other states by design or by accident.
Through accidents of geography and history, Cuba is a priceless ecological resource.
The potential role that ecological interfaces can play in providing effective decision making (i.e., preventing accidents) and problem solving (i.e., dealing with accidents) support, thereby improving the safety of our socio-technical systems, is explored.
From the standpoint of reducing environmental pollution and avoiding ecological destruction, combined with the influence of water transport and the damage of shipping emergent accidents on environment, some corresponding suggestions about environmental protection are proposed.
