Osei-Kyei, R; Tam, V; Komac, U and Ampratwum, G (2024) Critical review of urban community resilience indicators. Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, 13(6), pp. 1511-1537. ISSN 2046-6099
Abstract
Purpose: Urban communities can be faced with many destructive events that can disrupt the daily functioning of activities and livelihood of people living in the communities. In this regard, during the last couple of years, many governments have put a lot of efforts into building resilient urban communities. Essentially, a resilient urban community has the capacity to anticipate future disasters, prepare for and recover timely from adverse effects of disasters and unexpected circumstances. Considering this, it is therefore important for the need to continuously review the existing urban community resilience indicators, in order to identify emerging ones to enable comprehensive evaluation of urban communities in the future against unexpected events. This study therefore aims to conduct a systematic review to develop and critically analyse the emerging and leading urban community resilience indicators. Design/methodology/approach: Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRSIMA) protocol, 53 journal articles were selected using Scopus. The selected papers were subjected to thorough content analysis. Findings: From the review, 45 urban community resilience indicators were identified. These indicators were grouped into eight broad categories namely, Socio-demographic, Economic, Institutional Resilience, Infrastructure and Housing Resilience, Collaboration, Community Capital, Risk Data Accumulation and Geographical and Spatial characteristics of community. Further, the results indicated that the U.S had the highest number of publications, followed by Australia, China, New Zealand and Taiwan. In fact, very few studies emanated from developing economies. Originality/value: The outputs of this study will inform policymakers, practitioners and researchers on the new and emerging indicators that should be considered when evaluating the resilience level of urban communities. The findings will also serve as a theoretical foundation for further detailed empirical investigation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | criteria; disasters; indicators; resilience; urban community |
| Index terms: | housing, New Zealand, methodology, Australia, meta-analysis, collaboration, Taiwan, investigation, resilience indicator, journal, systematic literature review, publication, content analysis, China, developing economy, urban community, practitioner |
| Subjects: | data collection methods, risk assessment, management, construction type, research dissemination and communication, research evaluation and metrics, data analysis and analytics, community and social dimensions, research methods, economic development, practitioner, Geography |
| Topics: | International Construction, Stakeholder Management, Geographical Context, Research Practice, Organizational Design, Roles and Professions, Information Management, Risk Management, Construction Technology |
| Descriptive scope: | 5 PCTEA |
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