A Scientometric Review of Urban Disaster Resilience Research.

Hui Xu,Yang Li,Yongtao Tan,Ninghui Deng

doi:10.3390/ijerph18073677

Abstract

Natural disasters and human-made disasters are threatening urban areas globally. The resilience capacity of the urban system plays an important role in disaster risk response and recovery. Strengthening urban disaster resilience is also fundamental to ensuring sustainable development. Various practices and research for enhancing urban disaster resilience have been carried out worldwide but are yet to be reviewed. Accordingly, this paper gives a scientometric review of urban disaster resilience research by using CiteSpace. The time span (January 2001–January 2021) was selected and divided into three phases based on the number of publications. In addition, according to keyword statistics and clustering results, the collected articles are grouped into four hotspot topics: disaster risk reduction, specific disaster resilience research, resilience assessment, and combination research. The results show that most of the existing research is in the first two categories, and articles in the second and fourth categories both show a high growth rate and could be further research directions. The review indicates that urban disaster resilience is essential for a city’s sustainable development. Moreover, the findings provide scholars a full picture of the existing urban disaster resilience research which can help them identify promising research directions. The findings can also help urban government officials and policymakers review current urban disaster management strategies and make further improvements.

Highlights

Urban disasters, including natural hazards, equipment accidents, public health events, and terrorist attacks are increasing in recent years exponentially, resulting in escalating economic and human losses, and threatening urban sustainable development [1,2]
The resilience inference measurement (RIM) model was used for assessing the community resilience to drought hazards of all 503 counties, and the results showed that the social, economic, agriculture, and health sectors were identified as the main resilience indicators [138]
In order to reduce the negative impacts of disasters and provide a foundation for sustainable development, the importance of building urban disaster resilience is increasingly realized

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Introduction

Urban disasters, including natural hazards, equipment accidents, public health events, and terrorist attacks are increasing in recent years exponentially, resulting in escalating economic and human losses, and threatening urban sustainable development [1,2]. On. 22 January 2021, Aon plc released a statistical report, “Weather, Climate & Catastrophe. The global direct economic losses and damages from natural disasters in 2020 were estimated at USD268 billion. Much lower than the peak loss years of 2011 (USD557 billion) and 2017 (USD485 billion), it was above the average (USD244 billion) and median (USD246 billion) of the 21st century. Approximately 8100 people lost their lives due to natural catastrophe events in. These economic losses and fatalities stemmed from multi-hazard disasters, including seasonal floods, hurricane Laura, cyclone Amphan, etc.

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