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Title: | Spinning in Circles? a Systematic Review on the Role of Theory in Social Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptation Research | Authors: | Kuhlicke, Christian de Brito, Mariana Madruga Bartkowski, Bartosz Botzen, Wouter Doğulu, Canay Han, Sungju Hudson, Paul |
Keywords: | Natural hazards Preparedness Adaptive behaviour Coping Inductive research Deductive research Theorising Climate-Change Protection Motivation Flood Vulnerability Human Dimensions Fear Appeals Risk Model Communication Preparedness Perception |
Publisher: | Elsevier Sci Ltd | Abstract: | An increasing number of publications focus on social vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation (SVRA) towards natural hazards and climate change. Despite this proliferation of research, a systematic understanding of how these studies are theoretically grounded is lacking. Here, we systematically reviewed 4432 articles that address SVRA in various disciplinary fields (e.g. psychology, sociology, geography, mathematics) for various hazards, including floods, droughts, landslides, storm surges, wildfires, tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcano eruptions. We focus on the extent to which these studies explicate the frameworks, theoretical constructs or theories they rely on. Surprisingly, we found that about 90% of the reviewed studies do not explicitly refer to a theoretical un-derpinning. Overall, theories focusing on individuals' SVRA were more frequently used than those focusing on systems, society, groups, and networks. Moreover, the uptake of theories varied according to the hazard investigated and field of knowledge, being more frequent in wildfire and flood studies and articles published in social science journals. Based on our analysis, we propose a reflexive handling of theories to foster more transparent, comparable, and robust empirical research on SVRA. | URI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102672 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/10459 |
ISSN: | 0959-3780 1872-9495 |
Appears in Collections: | Scopus İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / Scopus Indexed Publications Collection WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collection |
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