Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management: Influences of the Sendai Framework, Paris Climate Agreement, and Sustainable Development Goals and Directions for Integrated Implementation

This bibliometric analysis of Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management (IUFRM) scholarship from 2011 to 2024 confirms the catalytic roles of the 2015 global conventions (SFDRR, Paris Agreement, SDGs), evidenced by accelerated publication growth. Conceptually, climate change has become a dominant and integral theme, while sustainability strategies, such as nature-based solutions, have emerged as crucial basic themes with strong potential for further development. Resilience anchors IUFRM as a guiding vision, but integration remains asymmetric, with three persistent gaps. First, a conceptual gap stems from framing climate change as a driver and sustainability as a (re)solution. Second, themes of justice and equity remain marginal, exposing a normative gap between risk management goals and the scholarly attention. Third, collaboration networks are highly centralized, with limited participation from Africa and West Asia, highlighting a structural gap in knowledge production. These features of IUFRM's trajectory point to the need for better targeting of future research and implementation.