Cross-departmental emergency coordination characteristics formed by multiple risks: Evidence from production safety special emergency campaigns across government levels in China

With the increasing complexity and uncertainty of social systems and risk environments, the phenomena of interweaving, superposition, and coupling between traditional and emerging risks are prominent. To explain and describe the cross-departmental emergency coordination characteristics formed by multiple risks, we constructed cross-departmental emergency coordination networks using production safety special emergency campaigns conducted in China as a case study. Using the “Central-Provincial-Municipal” network analysis framework, we compared the characteristics and differences of cross-departmental emergency coordination networks at different levels and discussed cross-departmental emergency resource sharing for different risks. We also clarified the driving mechanisms of multiple risks in these networks. The results indicate that the network tightness, equalization, and connectivity of such networks are strong, but network agglomeration is not significant. The emergency resources required for the formation of cross-departmental emergency coordination network are related not only to the relations but also to the resources corresponding to emergency departments. Both traditional and emerging risks are important factors that drive the formation of cross-departmental emergency coordination networks. From the central to local governments, the impact of unsubdivided risks on network formation gradually increase. Subdivided risks and newly added risks for new situations have a weak effect on network formation. This study provides an explanatory path for the formation of cross-departmental emergency coordination relationships driven by multiple risks, which helps improve efficiency of emergency coordination for production safety in response to multiple risks.