TY - JOUR
T1 - A global outlook on multi-hazard risk analysis
T2 - A systematic and scientometric review
AU - Owolabi, Titilayo Abimbola
AU - Sajjad, Muhammad
N1 - Funding information:
Sajjad M. is funded by the HKBU Research Grant Committee (Start-up Grant-Tier 1, 162764) of the Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR. We are thankful to all the institutes (mentioned within the text) for the provisioning of relevant data to carry out this valuable study. The research is conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. All the data used for several analyses are freely available and the resources are mentioned within the paper.
Publisher copyright:
© 2023 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2023/6/15
Y1 - 2023/6/15
N2 - Multi-hazard risks pose manifold challenges in the world due to different spatial and temporal scales of hazardous incidents and possible interactions between socio-economic activities and several hazards. In this area of study, there has been very little effort, if any, that provides researchers with systematically evaluated information regarding the state of the multi-hazard risk assessment (MHRA) field. To fill this gap, this paper leveraged several state-of-the-art tools (i.e., Bibliometrix R-tool and VOSviewer) for an extensive review analysis. Furthermore, multi-perspective insights based on publication sources, co-citation networks, thematic evolution, and international collaborations are provided regarding the MHRA research field. The results indicate that while a reasonable amount of MHRA-related scholarly work has been produced, no international collaboration is identified for the scholars in the south Asian region, Australia, and South America despite being impacted by multiple hazards and climate change. Such a situation represents a large gap regarding international collaboration, which needs the attention of research institutes, governments, and scholars to advance the field of MHRA research. Even though the number of published articles gradually increased between 2019 and 2022, the major focus of the MHRA field remained on landslide hazards highlighting an under-representation of other geophysical, meteorological, and hydrological hazards. This review paper provides an organized in-depth, detailed network, and a clear roadmap of current development in multi-hazards risk studies to serve as a reference for researchers, risk analysts, environmental engineers, disaster managers, decision-makers, and practitioners in the MHRA research field.
AB - Multi-hazard risks pose manifold challenges in the world due to different spatial and temporal scales of hazardous incidents and possible interactions between socio-economic activities and several hazards. In this area of study, there has been very little effort, if any, that provides researchers with systematically evaluated information regarding the state of the multi-hazard risk assessment (MHRA) field. To fill this gap, this paper leveraged several state-of-the-art tools (i.e., Bibliometrix R-tool and VOSviewer) for an extensive review analysis. Furthermore, multi-perspective insights based on publication sources, co-citation networks, thematic evolution, and international collaborations are provided regarding the MHRA research field. The results indicate that while a reasonable amount of MHRA-related scholarly work has been produced, no international collaboration is identified for the scholars in the south Asian region, Australia, and South America despite being impacted by multiple hazards and climate change. Such a situation represents a large gap regarding international collaboration, which needs the attention of research institutes, governments, and scholars to advance the field of MHRA research. Even though the number of published articles gradually increased between 2019 and 2022, the major focus of the MHRA field remained on landslide hazards highlighting an under-representation of other geophysical, meteorological, and hydrological hazards. This review paper provides an organized in-depth, detailed network, and a clear roadmap of current development in multi-hazards risk studies to serve as a reference for researchers, risk analysts, environmental engineers, disaster managers, decision-makers, and practitioners in the MHRA research field.
KW - Bibliometrix
KW - Multi-hazard risk assessment
KW - Natural hazards
KW - Scientometric analysis
KW - VOSviewer
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-journal-of-disaster-risk-reduction/vol/92/suppl/C
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85158863674&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103727
DO - 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103727
M3 - Review article
SN - 2212-4209
VL - 92
JO - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
JF - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
M1 - 103727
ER -
