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The Continuing Relevance of Vulnerability and Resilience Study: Advances in Disaster Management

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 11045

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Dr. Christopher L. Atkinson

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Public Administration Program, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL 32514-575, USA
Interests: resilience; procurement; acquisitions; public policy; public budgeting; emergency management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

While Google Trends indicates that worldwide interest in the term ‘disaster management’ has generally increased over the past ten years, attention to the term ‘disaster’ spiked at three specific times during that period—September and December, 2017, as a result of incredible natural disasters during that year, and again in April, 2020, as a result of an initial reckoning with the Coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19) disease pandemic. [1] According to the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), a disaster is “an occurrence of a natural catastrophe, technological accident, or human-caused event that has resulted in severe property damage, deaths, and/or multiple injuries.” [2] In this respect, disasters are fairly common; however, societal understanding of vulnerability and resilience has not always been strong, even if scholarship in this area continues to advance. Management of disaster events has sometimes been weak, if not dangerously lacking in certain cases, putting the public at risk. There have also been positive cases, from which we may learn and apply understanding elsewhere.

This call for submissions seeks to encourage manuscripts addressing considerations of disaster management, viewed broadly as with the FEMA definition above. Rigorous papers involving quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method approaches are invited. Efforts to bridge gaps between academic pursuits and official policy and practice, to effect positive change, are particularly welcome.

Dr. Christopher L. Atkinson
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • emergency management
  • disaster management
  • resilience
  • vulnerability
  • mitigation and preparedness

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Evaluation and Obstacle Analysis of Emergency Response Capability in China
by Huiquan Wang, Hong Ye, Lu Liu and Jixia Li
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(16), 10200; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191610200 - 17 Aug 2022
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Emergency response capability evaluation is an essential means to strengthen emergency response capacity-building and improve the level of government administration. Based on the whole life cycle of emergency management, the emergency capability evaluation index system is constructed from four aspects: prevention and emergency [...] Read more.
Emergency response capability evaluation is an essential means to strengthen emergency response capacity-building and improve the level of government administration. Based on the whole life cycle of emergency management, the emergency capability evaluation index system is constructed from four aspects: prevention and emergency preparedness, monitoring and early warning, emergency response and rescue, and recovery and reconstruction. Firstly, the entropy method is applied to measure the emergency response capability level of 31 Chinese provinces from 2011 to 2020. Second, the Theil index and ESDA (Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis) are applied in exploring the regional differences and spatial-temporal distribution characteristics of China’s emergency response capacity. Finally, the obstacle degree model is used to explore the obstacle factors and obstacle degrees that affect the emergency response capability. The results show that: (1) The average value of China’s emergency response capacity is 0.277, with a steady growth trend and a gradient distribution of “high in the east, low in the west, and average in center and northeast” in the four major regions. (2) From the perspective of spatial distribution characteristics, the unbalanced regional development leads to the obvious aggregation effect of “high-efficiency aggregation and low-efficiency aggregation”, and the interaction of the “centripetal effect” and “centrifugal effect” finally forms the spatial clustering result of emergency response capability level in China. (3) Examining the source of regional differences, inter-regional differences are the decisive factor affecting the overall differences in emergency response capability, and the inter-regional differences show a reciprocating fluctuation of narrowing–widening–narrowing from 2011 to 2020. (4) Main obstacles restricting the improvement of China’s emergency response capabilities are “the business volume of postal and telecommunication services per capita”, “the daily disposal capacity of city sewage” and “the general public budget revenue by region”. The extent of the obstacles’ impacts in 2020 are 12.19%, 7.48%, and 7.08%, respectively. Based on the evaluation results, the following countermeasures are proposed: to realize the balance of each stage of emergency management during the holistic process; to strengthen emergency coordination and balanced regional development; and to implement precise measures to make up for the shortcomings of emergency response capabilities. Full article
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A Comparative Study of the Resilience of Urban and Rural Areas under Climate Change
by Qingmu Su, Hsueh-Sheng Chang and Shin-En Pai
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(15), 8911; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19158911 - 22 Jul 2022
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The impact of climate change in recent years has caused considerable risks to both urban and rural systems. How to mitigate the damage caused by extreme weather events has attracted much attention from countries in recent years. However, most of the previous studies [...] Read more.
The impact of climate change in recent years has caused considerable risks to both urban and rural systems. How to mitigate the damage caused by extreme weather events has attracted much attention from countries in recent years. However, most of the previous studies on resilience focused on either urban areas or rural areas, and failed to clearly identify the difference between urban and rural resilience. In fact, the exploration of the difference between the resilience characteristics of cities and villages under climate change can help to improve the planning strategy and the allocation of resources. In this study, the indicators of resilience were firstly built through a literature review, and then a Principal Component Analysis was conducted to construct an evaluation system involving indicators such as “greenland resilience”, “community age structure resilience”, “traditional knowledge resilience”, “infrastructure resilience” and “residents economic independence resilience”. Then the analysis of Local Indicators of Spatial Association showed some resilience abilities are concentrated in either urban or rural. Binary logistic regression was performed, and the results showed urban areas have more prominent abilities in infrastructure resilience (the coefficient value is 1.339), community age structure resilience (0.694), and greenland resilience (0.3), while rural areas are more prominent in terms of the residents economic independence resilience (−0.398) and traditional knowledge resilience (−0.422). It can be seen that urban areas rely more on the resilience of the socio-economic structure, while rural areas are more dependent on their own knowledge and economic independence. This result can be used as a reference for developing strategies to improve urban and rural resilience. Full article
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Knowledge Domain and Emerging Trends of Social Vulnerability Research: A Bibliometric Analysis (1991–2021)
by Hua Li and Weijun Wang
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(14), 8342; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148342 - 8 Jul 2022
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Carrying out social vulnerability research has become an important way to understand the sustainable development of resources, the environment, populations, and societies. Clarifying the research context and development trend of social vulnerability is of great significance to the follow-up theoretical research on and [...] Read more.
Carrying out social vulnerability research has become an important way to understand the sustainable development of resources, the environment, populations, and societies. Clarifying the research context and development trend of social vulnerability is of great significance to the follow-up theoretical research on and practical exploration of sustainable social development. With the help of a CiteSpace knowledge map analysis, this study reveals the research hotspots and their evolution in different periods and puts forward the key problems in and future direction of social vulnerability research in the future. This study found that the number of articles on social vulnerability research showed a steady upward trend and that the research experienced roughly three stages: an embryonic stage, a development stage, and a stable stage. The United States, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and China accounted for the majority of the research, but the intensity of cooperation between them is still weak. Vulnerability assessment and risk assessment in the context of policy and environmental change are hot topics in the current research. In the future, it is necessary to focus on the comprehensive research on the integrated and cross-scale research on social vulnerability, research on its occurrence and evolution, and on the dynamic monitoring as well as optimal regulation of social vulnerability under multiple pressures. Full article
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