Climate risks resilience development: a bibliometric analysis of climate-related early warning systems in Southern Africa

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dc.creatorAgbehadji, I. E.
dc.creatorSchütte, S.
dc.creatorMasinde, M.
dc.creatorBotai, Joel
dc.creatorMabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe
dc.date2024-01-01
dc.date2023-12-31T23:55:12Z
dc.date2023-12-31T23:55:12Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T18:36:31Z
dc.descriptionEarly 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.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/136078
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/160689
dc.languageen
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceAgbehadji, 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]
dc.subjectclimate resilience
dc.subjectdisaster risk reduction
dc.subjectearly warning systems
dc.subjectclimate change adaptation
dc.subjectcommunity involvement
dc.subjectextreme weather events
dc.subjectweather hazards
dc.subjectsadc countries
dc.subjectbibliometric analysis
dc.titleClimate risks resilience development: a bibliometric analysis of climate-related early warning systems in Southern Africa
dc.typeJournal Article

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