Climate risks resilience development: a bibliometric analysis of climate-related early warning systems in Southern Africa
Early warning systems (EWS) facilitate societies’ preparedness and effective response capabilities to climate risks. Climate risks embody hazards, exposure, and vulnerability associated with a particular geographical area. Building an effective EWS requires consideration of the factors above to help...
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| author | Agbehadji, I. E. Schütte, S. Masinde, M. Botai, Joel Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe |
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| description | Early warning systems (EWS) facilitate societies’ preparedness and effective response capabilities to climate risks. Climate risks embody hazards, exposure, and vulnerability associated with a particular geographical area. Building an effective EWS requires consideration of the factors above to help people with coping mechanisms. The objective of this paper is to propose an approach that can enhance EWSs and ensure an effective climate risk resilience development. The paper focuses on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region and highlights the issues with EWS, identifying weaknesses and characteristics of EWS to help in climate risk adaptation strategies. The SADC region was chosen as the context because it is a climate variability and change hotspot with many vulnerable populations residing in rural communities. Trending themes on building climate risk resilience were uncovered through scientific mapping and network analysis of published articles from 2008 to 2022. This paper contributes to on-going research on building climate risks resilience through early warning systems to identify hidden trends and emerging technologies from articles in order to enhance the operationalization and design of EWS. This review provides insight into technological interventions for assessing climate risks to build preparedness and resilience. From the review analysis, it is determined that there exists a plethora of evidence to support the argument that involving communities in the co-designing of EWS would improve risk knowledge, anticipation, and preparedness. Additionally, Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies provide effective tools to address existing EWS’ weaknesses, such as lack of real-time data collection and automation. However, 4IR technology is still at a nascent stage in EWS applications in Africa. Furthermore, policy across societies, institutions, and technology industries ought to be coordinated and integrated to develop a strategy toward implementing climate resilient-based EWS to facilitate the operations of disaster risk managers. The Social, Institutional, and Technology model can potentially increase communities’ resilience; therefore, it is recommended to develop EWS. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1360782025-12-08T10:29:22Z Climate risks resilience development: a bibliometric analysis of climate-related early warning systems in Southern Africa Agbehadji, I. E. Schütte, S. Masinde, M. Botai, Joel Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe climate resilience disaster risk reduction early warning systems climate change adaptation community involvement extreme weather events weather hazards sadc countries bibliometric analysis Early warning systems (EWS) facilitate societies’ preparedness and effective response capabilities to climate risks. Climate risks embody hazards, exposure, and vulnerability associated with a particular geographical area. Building an effective EWS requires consideration of the factors above to help people with coping mechanisms. The objective of this paper is to propose an approach that can enhance EWSs and ensure an effective climate risk resilience development. The paper focuses on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region and highlights the issues with EWS, identifying weaknesses and characteristics of EWS to help in climate risk adaptation strategies. The SADC region was chosen as the context because it is a climate variability and change hotspot with many vulnerable populations residing in rural communities. Trending themes on building climate risk resilience were uncovered through scientific mapping and network analysis of published articles from 2008 to 2022. This paper contributes to on-going research on building climate risks resilience through early warning systems to identify hidden trends and emerging technologies from articles in order to enhance the operationalization and design of EWS. This review provides insight into technological interventions for assessing climate risks to build preparedness and resilience. From the review analysis, it is determined that there exists a plethora of evidence to support the argument that involving communities in the co-designing of EWS would improve risk knowledge, anticipation, and preparedness. Additionally, Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies provide effective tools to address existing EWS’ weaknesses, such as lack of real-time data collection and automation. However, 4IR technology is still at a nascent stage in EWS applications in Africa. Furthermore, policy across societies, institutions, and technology industries ought to be coordinated and integrated to develop a strategy toward implementing climate resilient-based EWS to facilitate the operations of disaster risk managers. The Social, Institutional, and Technology model can potentially increase communities’ resilience; therefore, it is recommended to develop EWS. 2024-01-01 2023-12-31T23:55:12Z 2023-12-31T23:55:12Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/136078 en Open Access MDPI Agbehadji, I. E.; Schutte, S.; Masinde, M.; Botai, Joel; Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe. 2024. Climate risks resilience development: a bibliometric analysis of climate-related early warning systems in Southern Africa. Climate, 12(1):3. (Special issue: Hydroclimate Dynamics and Extreme Weather Events in Africa) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/cli12010003] |
| spellingShingle | climate resilience disaster risk reduction early warning systems climate change adaptation community involvement extreme weather events weather hazards sadc countries bibliometric analysis Agbehadji, I. E. Schütte, S. Masinde, M. Botai, Joel Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe Climate risks resilience development: a bibliometric analysis of climate-related early warning systems in Southern Africa |
| title | Climate risks resilience development: a bibliometric analysis of climate-related early warning systems in Southern Africa |
| title_full | Climate risks resilience development: a bibliometric analysis of climate-related early warning systems in Southern Africa |
| title_fullStr | Climate risks resilience development: a bibliometric analysis of climate-related early warning systems in Southern Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Climate risks resilience development: a bibliometric analysis of climate-related early warning systems in Southern Africa |
| title_short | Climate risks resilience development: a bibliometric analysis of climate-related early warning systems in Southern Africa |
| title_sort | climate risks resilience development a bibliometric analysis of climate related early warning systems in southern africa |
| topic | climate resilience disaster risk reduction early warning systems climate change adaptation community involvement extreme weather events weather hazards sadc countries bibliometric analysis |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/136078 |
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