A Scientometric Review of Urban Disaster Resilience Research

Hui Xu, Yang Li, Yongtao Tan and Ninghui Deng
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Hui Xu: School of Economics and Management, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China
Yang Li: School of Economics and Management, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China
Yongtao Tan: School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia
Ninghui Deng: School of Economics and Management, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 7, 1-27

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.

Keywords: urban disaster resilience; sustainable development; vulnerability; resilience assessment; keyword statistics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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