Wind disasters adaptation in cities in a changing climate: A systematic review

evaluation. However, the physical and psychological impacts of wind disasters need more emphasis. NYC’s experience indicates that a catastrophic disaster can greatly motivate adapta- tion progress in the city. Cities are actively taking various measures in forecasting and evacua- tion, to minimize losses against disasters. Yet, hard measures belonging to structural and physical measures remain more popular in general. Our review provides an insight into the literature regarding adaptation to wind-related haz- ards in cities within the open access area, where the public is provided with adequate scientific knowledge and information. However, this study still has the following limitations and needs further development. First, this study only depicts the full picture of wind disaster adaptation in global cities but fails to tell the research contents studied surrounding a specific city. There- fore, it is unable to offer concrete suggestions to designated cities. Besides, we are unable to show the dynamic changes of cities that have experienced wind disasters on a longer time scale due to the inclusion of very few numbers of articles published before 2010. Furthermore, we did not explore the characteristics of cities that have more adaptation measures. Research could improve by conducting a more detailed full-text analysis to establish actual relationships between cities and adaptation measures in the future. The matching of cities and the year in which disasters occurred as well as when the study was published could also be included in the

future. By collecting socio-economic and meteorological data of cities, common features may be identified for cities that are more active in adapting to wind disasters. Supporting information S1 Checklist. PRISMA checklist. (DOC) S1 Table. List of publications and statistic results. (XLSX) S2 Table. List of cities and their frequencies. (XLSX) S3 Table. Quality assessment. (XLSX) S1 Appendix. The final search queries for Web of Science and Scopus. (DOCX) S2 Appendix. A templet for targeted information in the literature corpus. (DOCX) Acknowledgments We would like to thank Rui Wang and Shuyun Mei for doing the full-text review of articles and filling the targeted information in supporting materials. We would like to thank Celine Yeap for helping us to polish the language. And we would like to thank all the editors and reviewers for their wonderful comments and suggestions. Author Contributions Conceptualization: Yue He, Boqun Wu, Beibei Liu. Data curation: Yue He, Boqun Wu, Pan He. Formal analysis: Yue He, Boqun Wu, Pan He. PLOS ONE Review on wind adaptation in cities PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248503 March 17, 2021 16 / 26