Table 5 Summary of the major focuses and gaps of equity literature
From: Weaving equity into infrastructure resilience research: a decadal review and future directions
Dimension | Majority Focus | Research Gaps & Limitations |
|---|---|---|
Geographic Location | • United States | • non-US Countries, particularly in the Global South |
Geographic Scale | • Individual and local scales | • Cross-regional and country comparisons |
Temporal | • Increasing trend of publications • Identified several timescales that integrate with disaster management cycle | • Vagueness in the researched methods in applying to different timescales |
Nature of the Study | • Open-data and descriptive data • Descriptive statistics and linear regression | • Simulated and location-intelligence • Agent-based modeling, gravity network, generative modeling |
Hazard Event Type | • Flooding and tropical cyclone | • Wildfire |
Equity Dimension | • Distributional-demographic and distributional-spatial | • Procedural |
Infrastructure Type | • Power, water, and transportation | • Stormwater, emergency, and sanitation |
Research Perspective | • Evidence for social and spatial inequities • Conceptualization of access | • Analytical tools to integrate equity • Development of decision-making tools |
