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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 711, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134486
Keywords
Social vulnerability; Resilience; Measurement; Systematic literature review
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- Natural Environmental Research Council-National Science Foundation of China Economic and Social Research Council-Newton Fund grant (NERC grant) [NE/N012240/1]
- Natural Environmental Research Council-National Science Foundation of China Economic and Social Research Council-Newton Fund grant (NSFC grant) [4151101239]
- NERC [NE/N012240/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Quantifying and mapping resilience and social vulnerability is a widely used technique to support risk management, with recent years seeing a proliferation of applications across the Global South. To synthesise this emerging literature, we conducted a systematic review of applications of social vulnerability and resilience frameworks in Lower and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) using the PRISMA methodology. 2152 papers were extracted from 15 databases and then screened according to our pre-defined criteria, leaving 68 studies for full text analysis. Our analysis revealed that: (1) Most studies consider vulnerability or resilience to be generic properties of social systems; (2) Few papers measured vulnerability or resilience in a way that tests whether they are relatively stable or dynamic features of social systems; (3) Many applications rely on stock applications of existing frameworks, with little adaptation to specific cultural, societal or economic contexts; (4) There is a lack of systematic validation; (5) More hypothesis driven studies (as opposed to descriptive mapping exercises) are required in order to develop a better understanding of the mechanisms through which vulnerability and resilience shape the capacity to prepare for, respond and recover from disasters. (C) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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