Abstract
Disaster reduction and prevention have become urgent issues worldwide. Disaster education is an effective way to deal with frequent global disaster risks, carry out disaster prevention and relief measures in a timely manner, and reduce disaster losses. Based on the Web of Science database, using bibliometrics and network analysis methods based on scientific knowledge graphs, we conducted a visual analysis of global disaster education research trends from the perspectives of national cooperation spatial distribution, research hotspot mining, hybrid network analysis, and institutional cooperation spatial distribution of disaster education. The following conclusions were drawn. (1) The spatial distribution of disaster education research is uneven: it is clustered in Europe, evenly distributed in Asia and Africa, and scattered in North America and Oceania. Moreover, the United States in North America, China and Japan in Asia, and Australia in Oceania have the largest number of articles. (2) The field of disaster education focuses mainly on the themes of education, disaster nursing, disaster risk and reduction, disaster awareness, and earthquakes. The general trend of research hotspots is disaster risk >> disaster preparedness >> disaster nurse >> disaster awareness >> disaster risk and reduction, realizing the great transformation from disaster rescue to disaster preparedness and then to disaster prevention awareness. (3) A hybrid network of keywords and countries revealed the research focus of various countries in the field of disaster education, and a hybrid network of keywords and categories showed that the research on disaster education primarily focuses on the disciplines of environment, nursing, geography, geology, atmosphere, ecology, and psychology. On this basis, the breadth and depth of the disaster education system should be further improved. (4) The spatial layout of disaster education research institutions showed a clustered distribution of research institutions in North America and Europe, even distribution in some regions in Asia, and sporadic distribution in Africa and Oceania. In-depth cooperation among institutions should be strengthened, the degree of attention paid to disaster education should be increased, and external cooperation should be actively carried out to improve the level of disaster education, particularly in Africa and Asia.
Highlights
This article is an open access articleIn recent years, the increasing occurrence of global disasters has caused huge losses of life and property to human society, and disaster prevention and mitigation has become a common challenge facing the world [1]
Disaster education is an effective way to deal with the frequent occurrence of global disaster phenomena; carry out disaster prevention, risk reduction, and relief; as well as minimize potential disaster losses
Based on the Web of Science database, in this study, we searched the literature with the theme of “disaster education”, carried out bibliometric and network analysis with the help of VOSviewer, CiteSpace and Gephi, and conducted a visual analysis of the research trend of global disaster education from the perspectives of the spatial distribution of disaster education research, mining of research hotspots, hybrid network analysis and spatial distribution of research institutions
Summary
This article is an open access articleIn recent years, the increasing occurrence of global disasters has caused huge losses of life and property to human society, and disaster prevention and mitigation has become a common challenge facing the world [1]. Disaster education is an effective way to deal with frequent global disaster risks, implement disaster prevention and relief measures, and reduce disaster losses. This is a common mission of mankind. A disaster education model of “government-led and social participation”, was formed. It promulgated a series of disaster education laws and regulations [3]. Disaster education in Japan is characterized by “government-led, social initiative, multiple participation, and diversified levels”. After the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, the Chinese government proposed to incorporate disaster prevention knowledge into national education, vigorously promote disaster education in primary and secondary schools in
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