Site Selection Criteria for Sheltering after Earthquakes: A Systematic Review

This study is a systematic review and reports according to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guideline. The search for scholarly articles was conducted in April 2014 and covered the articles that were published by the end of April 2014 without any limitation on publication year. We searched PubMed, Scopus, ProQuest Research Library, Ovid,Science Direct, and Google Scholar as our databases without any limitation. The search terms and keywords were selected after consulting with the relief experts and disaster management researchers. The main search terms applied in three parts: 1) keywords about sheltering and housing such as shelter, sheltering, settlement, resettlement and housing, 2) “Earthquake” as our main subject, 3) keywords about site selection which were site, site selection, site selecting, locate, location, locating and site mapping. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) from PubMed used to adjust and control the terms and search the databases even in databases that do not use MeSH to index articles. In addition, we used the search strategy of the PubMed as a model for search all databases. So our search strategy was as follows: Earthquake* AND (shelter* OR settlement OR resettlement OR hous*) AND (site OR site select* OR locat* OR site map*). Inclusion and exclusion criteria The research team applied the following criteria for inclusion and exclusion of papers: Inclusion criteria: - Articles in the field of earthquake...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - Category: Global & Universal Authors: Source Type: research