The concept of resilience: a bibliometric analysis ofthe emergency and disaster management literature
Fatih Demiroz and Thomas W. Haase
Department of Political Science, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA
ABSTRACTResilience has become an important concept in the fields of emergency anddisaster management. Despite the increased use of resilience in the academicand public policy arenas, the intellectual topography of this subject as itrelates to emergency and disaster management contexts remains under-inves-tigated. This article provides a snapshot of the intellectual structure of resi-lience studies. Using bibliometric data collected from 20 emergency anddisaster management journals, this article argues that the interdisciplinarynature of resilience research comes from its historical roots. The findings alsodemonstrate that resilience research in the emergency and disaster manage-ment fields is organised into three primary clusters: environmental and eco-logical issues, emergency and disaster management, and public policy andadministration. The article concludes with implications for policymakers, aswell as recommendations for future research.
KEYWORDS Resilience; community resilience; emergency management; disaster management;bibliometric an
alysis; homeland security
Introduction
Resilience has become a central concept for those engaged in the practice ofemergency and disaster management. President Obama, for example, issuedPresidential Policy Directive/PPD-8, which called for the strengthening of thecountry’s security and resilience ‘through systematic preparation for the threatsthat pose the greatest risk to the security of the Nation, including acts ofterrorism, cyber-attacks, pandemics, and catastrophic natural disasters’(United States 2011, 1). In line with the aspirations of PPD-8, the UnitedStates’ Department of Homeland Security and Department of State identifiedresilience to be a core component of their National Preparedness Plan andNational Security Strategy (United States 2010, 2011). These developmentshave not been restricted to the United States. According to the SendaiFramework for Disaster Risk Reduction, which was adopted by the international
CONTACT Fatih Demiroz [email protected] Department of Political Science, Sam HoustonState University, Humanities and Social Sciences Building, 1901 Avenue I, Box 2149, Huntsville Texas77341-2149, USA
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