The Spatial Network Contagion of Environmental Risks Among Countries Along the Belt and Road Initiative

Under the tide of global economic integration with aggravated environmental risks caused by intensive human activities, spatial network correlation has become intensified. The close exchange activities among countries under Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will especially feel this contagion risks. Given situation, article analyzes risk relations BRI characteristics their structure using social analysis (SNA). A block model is used to analyze clustering contagion. Specifically, driving factors are analyzed through quadratic assignment procedure (QAP) SNA. results provide some references for reduce jointly control contagion, so as assist in promotion a green silk road.