Better understanding flood resilience in rural China: a review integrating regional disaster systems and 4R theory
摘要
Global climate change has intensified the frequency and intensity of extreme rainstorm events, leading to increasingly frequent flood disasters in rural communities. Therefore, research on rural community resilience to flood disasters contributes to mitigating the impact of disasters and reducing post-disaster losses. Based on the technical route of non-systematic literature review and multi-factor comparative analysis, this paper integrates regional disaster system elements and 4R crisis management theory to construct an analytical framework for characterizing rural community flood disaster resilience research. The review identifies the following key characteristics of current research: (1) A lack of systematic conceptual research specifically focused on rural flood disaster resilience; (2) Deficiencies in existing evaluation methods regarding the integration of static elements (hazard-forming environment, hazard, exposure) and dynamic processes (reduction, readiness, response, recovery); (3) Identification of eight core influencing factors and their mechanisms; (4) Summary of ten key dimensions for improvement strategies and construction of a strategy system. Furthermore, key future research directions for China are outlined. The research contributes to advancing the theoretical resilience framework by explicitly integrating static and dynamic perspectives, offering novel insights into the temporal and systemic nature of resilience. It provides actionable insights for the practical construction of flood disaster resilience in Chinese rural communities through context-specific strategies, thereby also contributing valuable perspectives to the global discourse on rural flood resilience.