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3.3 Research Steps
After choosing the keywords and its derived words, the research took four main steps
to select the relevant works. Initially, 32 combinations were applied on the electronic
portal respecting the enclosures, where 1730 results were found. Later an analysis
was made on the title and the abstract of each article, looking for works according
to the adopted topic, and that were unfailingly related to natural disasters, and then
214 results were found. At this stage all the works in different study areas, such
as medicine and engeneering were discarded, focusing only at sciences and social
sciences works.
The third step started by incorporating the 214 results into the software Mendeley,
in order to delete all the duplicated articles, facilitating a transversal reading and then
resulting 175 articles.
3.3.1 Definition and Application of Exclusion Criteria
There was the application of exclusion criteria on the last step of the articles selection
defined as a choice of works that would inform about natural disasters and its predisasters facets indeed, with the discussion of social and environmental risk factors
in a perspective of construction of disasters, excluding the works that would only use
the event as a factor for the development of researches with different focusses. The
criteria were established taking into account that the social construction of natural
disasters happens due to the sum of several social and environmental factors, the
articles with the characteristics bellow were excluded:
1. Articles about post-natural disaster assessment programs and methods.
2. Articles on case studies of regions that suffered some type of natural disaster
focusing only on measures taken after the event.
3. Articles about the socioenvironmental vulnerability as a assumption to create
strategies to decrease natural disasters, without arguments about the role of
vulnerability and other factors on the disaster’s construction.
4. Articles about natural disasters, however, their focus was on the analysis of other
disasters (Fig. 3).
4 Results
After applying the last filter 26 articles have been selected, matching to all criteria
established, after synthesizing them on the table, it was possible to see the geographical location of the publications, what led to the following panorama: most of the
articles were published in Europe, 26.92% in Netherlands (7 publications) e 23.07%
in the United Kingdom (6 publications), followed by North America with 23.07%
L. M. Floriani and E. N. de Moura
3.3 Research Steps
After choosing the keywords and its derived words, the research took four main steps
to select the relevant works. Initially, 32 combinations were applied on the electronic
portal respecting the enclosures, where 1730 results were found. Later an analysis
was made on the title and the abstract of each article, looking for works according
to the adopted topic, and that were unfailingly related to natural disasters, and then
214 results were found. At this stage all the works in different study areas, such
as medicine and engeneering were discarded, focusing only at sciences and social
sciences works.
The third step started by incorporating the 214 results into the software Mendeley,
in order to delete all the duplicated articles, facilitating a transversal reading and then
resulting 175 articles.
3.3.1 Definition and Application of Exclusion Criteria
There was the application of exclusion criteria on the last step of the articles selection
defined as a choice of works that would inform about natural disasters and its predisasters facets indeed, with the discussion of social and environmental risk factors
in a perspective of construction of disasters, excluding the works that would only use
the event as a factor for the development of researches with different focusses. The
criteria were established taking into account that the social construction of natural
disasters happens due to the sum of several social and environmental factors, the
articles with the characteristics bellow were excluded:
1. Articles about post-natural disaster assessment programs and methods.
2. Articles on case studies of regions that suffered some type of natural disaster
focusing only on measures taken after the event.
3. Articles about the socioenvironmental vulnerability as a assumption to create
strategies to decrease natural disasters, without arguments about the role of
vulnerability and other factors on the disaster’s construction.
4. Articles about natural disasters, however, their focus was on the analysis of other
disasters (Fig. 3).
4 Results
After applying the last filter 26 articles have been selected, matching to all criteria
established, after synthesizing them on the table, it was possible to see the geographical location of the publications, what led to the following panorama: most of the
articles were published in Europe, 26.92% in Netherlands (7 publications) e 23.07%
in the United Kingdom (6 publications), followed by North America with 23.07%