Social technologies for disaster risk management actions: a scoping review

Abstract

The objective was to map the technical-scientific literature on the development of social technologies in disaster risk management processes with vulnerable communities. This is a scoping review, according to the JBI (Joanna Briggs Institute) methodology, whose searches were carried out from August to December 2021 in eleven databases and gray literature. Independent reviewers participated in the selection, extraction, and synthesis of the data. After screening 1,291 publications, six studies were included in the review. Eligibility criteria were based on the acronym PCC (Population, Concept, and Context). It was evidenced that the concept of social technology brings in its essence social transformation and empowerment, strategic elements for the systematic confrontation of disasters with vulnerable populations. New, more robust studies are important to analyze the impact of social technologies on disasters, especially taking into account the development of public policies and the search for community resilience guided by the Sustainable Development Goals and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The limited number of studies identified points to the need for the appropriation of social technologies that can effectively improve the standard of risk management in the face of such events, whether of natural or technological origin.