Makuyana Tawanda, Dube Kaitano
Department of Tourism and Integrated Communication, Faculty of Human Sciences, Vaal University of Technology, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa.
Afr J Disabil. 2024 Mar 22;13:1339. doi: 10.4102/ajod.v13i0.1339. eCollection 2024.
Climate change and disability are rarely addressed by academic scholars within the spectrum of disabilities and as a single field of study. However, the intersectionality of disability exacerbates the vulnerability of people with disabilities to climate change as climate change frameworks in the Global North and South continue excluding them.
This study aims to map the research-based knowledge housed in Scopus on disability and climate change. At the same time, it provides insights into innovative (novelty) ways of thinking and proposes a futuristic research agenda.
A bibliometric analysis was conducted on Scopus-indexed articles using VOSviewer to map co-occurrences of keywords and co-authorship, and a manual thematic-scoping review augmented the data analysis.
The disability and climate change debate as a joint study evolved from concern among health practitioners to human rights and social inclusion.
In conclusion, there is a skewness towards mental health and medical sociology lens, while other sub-groups of persons with disabilities are yet to be engaged in co-creating disability-inclusive climate change knowledge.
Thematic areas emerged as gaps that future studies embed principles enshrined in the United Nations Convention for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Sustainable Development Goals.
在残疾研究范畴内，学术学者很少将气候变化与残疾问题作为一个单一的研究领域来探讨。然而，由于全球北方和南方的气候变化框架持续将残疾人排除在外，残疾的交叉性加剧了残疾人面对气候变化时的脆弱性。
本研究旨在梳理Scopus数据库中关于残疾与气候变化的基于研究的知识。同时，深入了解创新的思维方式，并提出一个未来主义的研究议程。
使用VOSviewer对Scopus索引的文章进行文献计量分析，以绘制关键词共现和共同作者关系图，并通过手动主题范围审查来扩充数据分析。
残疾与气候变化作为一项联合研究的讨论，已从健康从业者的关注发展到人权和社会包容。
总之，研究偏向于心理健康和医学社会学视角，而其他残疾人群体尚未参与共同创造包含残疾因素的气候变化知识。
主题领域呈现为未来研究可嵌入《联合国残疾人权利公约》和可持续发展目标所体现原则的空白领域。
