Citation

Xu J, Wang Z, Shen F, Ouyang C, Tu Y. Int. J. Disaster Risk Reduct. 2016; 17: 38-48.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ijdrr.2016.04.001

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Natural disasters often result in fatalities, injuries, diseases and other negative physical and mental health effects. Indirectly, disasters can result in social grievances and resource scarcities which can trigger social conflicts. Despite the many natural disaster studies, however, little attention has been devoted to the study of conflicts following a natural disaster. Through a systematic literature review from 1986 to 2013, this paper examines social conflicts resulting from natural disasters. In this paper, a three-dimensional analysis, Description-Theme-Mechanism, is used to combine and analyze the current state of research, with the ultimate goal of clarifying the concept of social conflicts arising from natural disasters, summarizing existing research on the links between natural disasters and social conflicts, determining any significant rules and trends, and providing recommendations and directions for future research.

Language: en