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Yue He1,2, Boqun Wu1, Pan He3,4
1State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse School of Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Plos One
|March 17, 2021
Summary
Future wind disasters require better urban adaptation strategies. This study analyzed 232 publications, revealing a research framework focusing on vulnerability, damage, response, and health impacts, with a call for more diverse city studies and soft adaptation measures.
Area of Science:
- Urban planning and disaster risk reduction
- Climate change adaptation strategies
- Environmental science and public health
Background:
- Wind-related disasters pose increasing threats to urban areas due to climate change.
- Existing research offers insufficient guidance for effective urban adaptation measures.
- A comprehensive understanding of the current research landscape is needed to inform future strategies.
Purpose of the Study:
- To systematically analyze and synthesize open-access literature on urban wind disaster adaptation.
- To identify key research themes, focal cities, and adaptation measures discussed in the literature.
- To highlight research gaps and provide recommendations for future studies and policy.
Main Methods:
- Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling applied to 232 publications (1900-2019) from Web of Science and Scopus.
- Full-text analysis to identify focal cities and specific adaptation measures.
- Categorization of research into four main aspects: vulnerability/resilience, damage evaluation, response/recovery, and health impacts.
Main Results:
- Urban wind disaster adaptation research is structured around four key aspects: vulnerability, damage, response, and health impacts.
- Climate change is a significant contextual factor, particularly for coastal areas and exacerbating disaster impacts.
- Research predominantly focuses on developed cities (e.g., New York City), with limited attention to health impacts and soft adaptation measures (social, institutional).
Conclusions:
- Policymakers should broaden their focus beyond high-profile cities like New York to include other disaster-affected urban areas.
- Future adaptation strategies must integrate climate change projections for both short-term and long-term resilience.
- A balanced approach favoring hybrid hard-soft adaptation measures, with increased emphasis on soft measures and health impact research, is crucial for effective urban wind disaster preparedness.
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