Abstract
Wind-related disasters will bring more devastating consequences to cities in the future with a changing climate, but relevant studies have so far provided insufficient information to guide adaptation actions. This study aims to provide an in-depth elaboration of the contents discussed in open access literature regarding wind disaster adaptation in cities. We used the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to refine topics and main contents based on 232 publications (1900 to 2019) extracted from Web of Science and Scopus. We conducted a full-text analysis to filter out focal cities along with their adaptation measures. The results show that wind disaster adaptation research in cities has formed a systematic framework in four aspects: 1) vulnerability and resilience of cities, 2) damage evaluation, 3) response and recovery, and 4) health impacts of wind disaster. Climate change is the background for many articles discussing vulnerability and adaptation in coastal areas. It is also embedded in damage evaluation since it has the potential to exacerbate disaster consequences. The literature is strongly inclined towards more developed cities such as New York City and New Orleans, among which New York City associated with Hurricane Sandy ranks first (38/232). Studies on New York City cover all the aspects, including the health impacts of wind disasters which are significantly less studied now. Distinct differences do exist in the number of measures regarding the adaptation categories and their subcategories. We also find that hard adaptation measures (i.e., structural and physical measures) are far more popular than soft adaptation measures (i.e., social and institutional measures). Our findings suggest that policymakers should pay more attention to cities that have experienced major wind disasters other than New York. They should embrace the up-to-date climate change study to defend short-term disasters and take precautions against long-term changes. They should also develop hard-soft hybrid adaptation measures, with special attention on the soft side, and enhance the health impact study of wind-related disasters.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Reference206 articles.
1. Bloomberg M. A stronger, more resilient New York. New York: City of New York Mayor’s Office. 2013. Available: http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/sirr/SIRR_singles_Lo_res.pdf
2. Damage to buildings and structures due to recent devastating wind hazards in East Asia.;Q Yang;Nat Hazards,2018
3. The impact of Hurricane Michael on longleaf pine habitats in Florida.;NE Zampieri;Scientific Reports.,2020
4. Health system response and adaptation to the largest sandstorm in the Middle East.;FB Irfan;Disaster Med Public Health Prep,2017
5. D. Guha-Sapir. EM-DAT: The Emergency Events Datebase. [cited 5 Dec 2020]. Available: https://public.emdat.be/data
Cited by
13 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献