Egbelakin, T; Omotayo, T; Ogunmakinde, O E and Ekundayo, D (2025) Eliciting social themes of flood mitigation and community engagement studies through text mining. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 43(1), pp. 29-49. ISSN 2398-4708
Abstract
Purpose: Flood preparedness and response from the perspective of community engagement mechanisms have been studied in scholarly articles. However, the differences in flood mitigation may expose social and behavioural challenges to learn from. This study aimed to demonstrate how text mining can be applied in prioritising existing contexts in community-based and government flood mitigation and management strategies. Design/methodology/approach: This investigation mined the semantics researchers ascribed to flood disasters and community responses from 2001 to 2022 peer-reviewed publications. Text mining was used to derive frequently used terms from over 15 publications in the Scopus database and Google Scholar search engine after an initial output of 268 peer-reviewed publications. The text-mining process applied the topic modelling analyses on the 15 publications using the R studio application. Findings: Topic modelling applied through text mining clustered four (4) themes. The themes that emerged from the topic modelling process were building adaptation to flooding, climate change and resilient communities, urban infrastructure and community preparedness and research output for flood risk and community response. The themes were supported with geographical flood risk and community mitigation contexts from the USA, India and Nigeria to provide a broader perspective. Originality/value: This study exposed the deficiency of "communication, teamwork, responsibility and lessons" as focal themes of flood disaster management and response research. The divergence in flood mitigation in developing nations as compared with developed nations can be bridged through improved government policies, technologies and community engagement.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | climate change; community engagement; disaster resilience; flood; text mining |
| Index terms: | India, modelling, disaster management, mining, government policy, investigation, community engagement, Nigeria, adaptation, database, management strategy, semantics, prioritizing, teamwork, community response, climate change, publication, flood mitigation, methodology, mitigation, studio, flooding, disaster resilience, developing nation, research output, urban infrastructure, community-based, resilient community |
| Subjects: | data collection methods, community and social dimensions, geotechnical engineering, decision analysis, data management, infrastructure and transport systems, management, research products and data, public policy, analytical methods, user focus, construction type, research dissemination and communication, climate science, environmental hazards, communities and social development, research methods, financial risk, development economics, Geography |
| Topics: | Design Practice, Digital Applications, Urban Studies, International Construction, Organizational Design, Cost Management, Business Strategy, Research Practice, Information Management, Stakeholder Management, Construction Technology, Governance, Geographical Context, Engineering Principles, Risk Management, Sustainability |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCTA |
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