Haorui Wu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Haorui Wu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Haorui |
| FAMILY NAME | Wu |
| SIGNATURE | WU H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6314-0452 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Examining the relationship between weather-related power outages and disaster risk perception
Power outages are visible consequences of extreme weather, with effects on individual well-being. However, little is known about how uneven exposure to outages, especially those directly linked to extreme weather, shapes perceived risk of disasters. Disaster risk perception is defined as individuals' judgement of the likelihood and consequences of future disasters, including effects on health and economic well-being. It can influence protective a…
Climate Change-Related Risks of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Among 2SLGBTQIA+ University Students and Emergent Adults: A Scoping Review
A scoping review was conducted using international databases, including Web of Science, Scopus, ProQuest, PubMed, Embase, and EBSCOhost, covering studies since 2009. Sixty-three articles focusing on gender-based violence (GBV) among 2SLGBTQIA+ university students and emergent adults were analyzed, incorporating climate change-related vulnerabilities that exacerbate GBV risks for marginalized students. Key factors were categorized into bullying, v…
Ecological effect of China's 30-year National Garden City policy: Synergistic acceleration of urban greening, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity
Queering Disasters, Climate Change and Humanitarian Crises
Voice for the Voiceless: Amplifying Animal Issues in Disaster Management and Media
How do the media portray companion animals, commonly known as pets, and their guardians during natural disasters? This study explores the crucial role media has played in shaping the public’s understanding of animal-related issues during the wildfires that swept through Nova Scotia, Canada, in May and June 2023. This case study examines how various platforms—from Twitter to government websites and local news outlets—covered the challenges faced b…
Factors affecting the risk of gender-based violence among 2SLGBTQIA+ adolescents and youth: A scoping review of climate change-related vulnerabilities
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a pervasive and growing issue that affects diverse populations worldwide. This study aimed to synthesize the factors affecting the risk of GBV among 2SLGBTQIA+ adolescents and youth. A scoping review was conducted using international databases (Web of Science, Scopus, Proquest, PubMed, Embase, EBSCOhost) since 2009. The studies were independently appraised by two reviewers guided by the PRISMA approach. Ninety-nine …
Bringing birth fathers to the forefront: A two‐decade scoping review of birth father experiences in adoption
In adoption, it is common to consider the adopted child, the adoptive parents, and the birth mother as part of the adoption galaxy. Yet, birth fathers are often missing elements in adoption‐focused research. This article aims to comprehensively understand the current knowledge regarding birth fathers' experiences in adoption. Adapting the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‐Analyses approach, this review identified 100 peer‐…
Trying differently’ towards improving school experiences: Systematically reviewing research on school experiences for students with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (Fasd) and their teachers
Physical health caregiver, mental wellness supporter, and overall well-being advocate: Women's roles towards animal welfare during the Covid-19 emergency response
Women's health-specific contributions in emergency response stages pertain primarily to family and community-based rescue and support-focused roles. As disasters affect both human beings and their animal co-inhabitants, comprehensive literature exploring women's contributions towards companion animal welfare in emergency response settings remains sparse. COVID-19-triggered public health mitigation strategies caused diverse challenges relating to …
Promoting Emergency Response for Homeless Service Agencies: Field-Based Recommendations from Two Municipalities in Nova Scotia, Canada
The fast unfolding of the global COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected the homeless sector by triggering tremendous challenges for individuals experiencing homelessness (IEHs) and related service agencies. This quick-response research project qualitatively collected time-sensitive data from the IEHs and service stakeholders (SSs) experiences, challenges, efforts, and suggestions during the first wave of COVID-19 in the two most popula…
Disaster Education in the Context of Postsecondary Education: A Systematic Literature Review
The upward tendency of global disasters and associated losses urgently calls for enhancing disaster education (DE) and professional training. Although postsecondary education institutions (PSEIs) play an essential role in this educational mission, a comprehensive understanding of DE development in PSEIs remains unclear. In response to this knowledge deficit, this article employed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analy…
Terminology and Language Used in Indigenous-Specific Gender and Sexuality Diversity Studies: A Systematic Review
Cultural responsivity in academic research is central to the use of language that is representative and inclusive of Indigenous worldviews on gender and sexuality diversity. This article uses the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) approach to explore current studies’ contribution to the use of gender and sexuality diverse terminology and language that is representative of Indigenous worldviews. A systemati…
College Students and Environmental Disasters: A Review of the Literature
College students are a unique population occupying a distinct life-course and transition period between adolescence and adulthood. Although not monolithic in experiences, knowledge, and demographics, this diverse population is particularly susceptible to immediate, short-term, mid-term, and long-term disaster impacts. Recently, disaster research focusing on college students has rightly focused on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Although the pandem…
Improving the feedback loop between community‐ and policy‐level learning: Building resilience of coastal communities in Bangladesh
Building community resilience has been widely recognized as a learning process at multiple societal levels, yet few prior studies have examined the feedback loop between community‐ and policy‐level learning. Following a qualitative research approach, we document experiential and transformative forms of learning from coastal cyclones in Bangladesh that help local community and their institutions mitigating the impact of cyclonic shocks and recover…
Learning Green Social Work in Global Disaster Contexts: A Case Study Approach
Green social work (GSW) is a nascent framework within the social work field that provides insights regarding social workers' engagement in disaster settings. Although this framework has recently garnered more attention, it remains under-researched and underdeveloped within the context of social work research, education, and practice in Canada and internationally. To further develop GSW in social work education and professional training, we consid…
Cultural Competence for Hazards and Disaster Researchers: Framework and Training Module
Although the need for cultural competence among healthcare service providers and other practitioners has long been recognized, there has been much less focus on this concept in the field of hazards and disaster research. To help fill this gap, this technical note offers a definitional framework for building cultural competence among hazards and disaster researchers and describes a training module that assists with developing such competency. Draw…
Promoting Environmental Justice and Sustainability in Social Work Practice in Rural Community: A Systematic Review
Social work’s response to global climate change has dramatically increased over the last several years. Similarly, growing attention has been paid to rural social work; less clear, however, is how social work, responsive to global climate change, is developed, deployed, and understood in rural contexts; this systematic review elaborates on current social work contributions (research, practice, and policymaking), promoting environmental justice an…
Building Emergency Response Capacity: Multi-Career-Stage Social Workers’ Engagement with Homeless Sector during the First Two Waves of Covid-19 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
The dramatic increase of global extreme events (e.g., natural, technological, and willful hazards) propels social workers to be equipped with emergency response capacity, supporting affected individuals, families, and communities to prepare, respond, and recover from disasters. Although social workers have historically been engaged in emergency response, social work curriculum and professional training remain slow to adapt, jeopardizing their cap…
On the Front Lines: Nonprofits in the Homeless-serving Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article examines the experiences of the nonprofit, homeless-serving sector during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Qualitative interviews were conducted with staff and volunteers from frontline organizations in the two largest communities in Nova Scotia, Canada. Participants reported much strain on their organizations' human resources, but also the ability to adjust service delivery mechanisms quickly in order to continue offering su…
Integration of the Disaster Component into Social Work Curriculum: Teaching Undergraduate Social Work Research Methods Course during Covid-19
This article aims to develop community-contextualised pedagogical innovations to embed disaster components into core social work curriculum through a research methods course. Professional social work education continues to lack a community-contextualised curriculum and professional training that reflects the complexities of extreme events associated with community and human service. This absence jeopardises the advancement of social work engageme…
A Framework for Convergence Research in the Hazards and Disaster Field: The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure Converge Facility
The goal of this article is twofold: to clarify the tenets of convergence research and to motivate such research in the hazards and disaster field. Here, convergence research is defined as an approach to knowledge production and action that involves diverse teams working together in novel ways—transcending disciplinary and organizational boundaries—to address vexing social, economic, environmental, and technical challenges in an effort to reduce …
Airdropped urban condominiums and stay-behind elders’ well-being: 10-Year Lessons Learned From the Post-Wenchuan Earthquake Rural Recovery
Covid-19 and beyond: Social work interventions for supporting homeless populations
During the COVID-19 emergency response of ‘staying the blazes home’ in Nova Scotia, Canada, frontline social workers worked tirelessly ‘out of the home’ to secure safe dwellings for those on the street, living in shelters, and/or precariously housed. When the province moves to the reopening and recovery stage, social work strategies will focus on reducing homeless people’s vulnerabilities, aiming to offer safe and dignified living
What Methods Do Social Scientists Use to Study Disasters? An Analysis of the Social Science Extreme Events Research Network
Methods matter. They influence what we know and who we come to know about in the context of hazards and disasters. Research methods are of profound importance to the scholarly advancement of the field and, accordingly, a growing number of publications focus on research methods and ethical practices associated with the study of extreme events. Still, notable gaps exist. The National Science Foundation-funded Social Science Extreme Events Research …
Utilizing co-design approach to identify various stakeholders’ roles in the protection of intangible place-making heritage: The case of Guchengping Village
Purpose The protection of traditional grassroots place-making knowledge and skills that comprise valuable intangible heritage has not been attracting enough attention in the field of post-disaster reconstruction and recovery. Based on the Guchengping Village’s reconstruction that followed the Lushan earthquake (Sichuan, China), the purpose of this paper is to identify the benefits of a co-design approach for post-disaster reconstruction and recov…
Women rebuilding lives post-disaster: Innovative community practices for building resilience and promoting sustainable development
Disasters result in devastating human, economic, and environmental effects. The paper highlights women's active participation in community-based disaster recovery efforts drawing from the results of the 'Rebuilding Lives Post-disaster: Innovative Community Practices for Sustainable Development' by an international research partnership. Two case studies are presented from Pakistan and the USA to demonstrate how women contribute to building resilie…
Covid-19 and beyond: Social work interventions for supporting homeless populations
During the COVID-19 emergency response of ‘staying the blazes home’ in Nova Scotia, Canada, frontline social workers worked tirelessly ‘out of the home’ to secure safe dwellings for those on the street, living in shelters, and/or precariously housed. When the province moves to the reopening and recovery stage, social work strategies will focus on reducing homeless people’s vulnerabilities, aiming to offer safe and dignified living
What Methods Do Social Scientists Use to Study Disasters? An Analysis of the Social Science Extreme Events Research Network
Methods matter. They influence what we know and who we come to know about in the context of hazards and disasters. Research methods are of profound importance to the scholarly advancement of the field and, accordingly, a growing number of publications focus on research methods and ethical practices associated with the study of extreme events. Still, notable gaps exist. The National Science Foundation-funded Social Science Extreme Events Research …
Rebuilding Lives and Communities Postdisaster: A Case Study on Migrant Workers and Diversity in the USA
There is a need to better understand long-term disaster recovery and reconstruction challenges in diverse communities. This case study was part of a larger study undertaken by the Rebuilding Lives Post-Disaster research partnership, where field research was conducted in disaster-affected communities in Canada, the USA, Australia, India, Pakistan, and Taiwan. The objective of this exploratory case study was to focus on experiences of affected migr…
Airdropped urban condominiums and stay-behind elders’ well-being: 10-Year Lessons Learned From the Post-Wenchuan Earthquake Rural Recovery
Ecological effect of China's 30-year National Garden City policy: Synergistic acceleration of urban greening, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity
Trying differently’ towards improving school experiences: Systematically reviewing research on school experiences for students with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (Fasd) and their teachers
Improving the feedback loop between community‐ and policy‐level learning: Building resilience of coastal communities in Bangladesh
Building community resilience has been widely recognized as a learning process at multiple societal levels, yet few prior studies have examined the feedback loop between community‐ and policy‐level learning. Following a qualitative research approach, we document experiential and transformative forms of learning from coastal cyclones in Bangladesh that help local community and their institutions mitigating the impact of cyclonic shocks and recover…
Learning Green Social Work in Global Disaster Contexts: A Case Study Approach
Green social work (GSW) is a nascent framework within the social work field that provides insights regarding social workers' engagement in disaster settings. Although this framework has recently garnered more attention, it remains under-researched and underdeveloped within the context of social work research, education, and practice in Canada and internationally. To further develop GSW in social work education and professional training, we consid…
Integration of the Disaster Component into Social Work Curriculum: Teaching Undergraduate Social Work Research Methods Course during Covid-19
This article aims to develop community-contextualised pedagogical innovations to embed disaster components into core social work curriculum through a research methods course. Professional social work education continues to lack a community-contextualised curriculum and professional training that reflects the complexities of extreme events associated with community and human service. This absence jeopardises the advancement of social work engageme…
Women rebuilding lives post-disaster: Innovative community practices for building resilience and promoting sustainable development
Disasters result in devastating human, economic, and environmental effects. The paper highlights women's active participation in community-based disaster recovery efforts drawing from the results of the 'Rebuilding Lives Post-disaster: Innovative Community Practices for Sustainable Development' by an international research partnership. Two case studies are presented from Pakistan and the USA to demonstrate how women contribute to building resilie…
Rebuilding Lives and Communities Postdisaster: A Case Study on Migrant Workers and Diversity in the USA
There is a need to better understand long-term disaster recovery and reconstruction challenges in diverse communities. This case study was part of a larger study undertaken by the Rebuilding Lives Post-Disaster research partnership, where field research was conducted in disaster-affected communities in Canada, the USA, Australia, India, Pakistan, and Taiwan. The objective of this exploratory case study was to focus on experiences of affected migr…
Utilizing co-design approach to identify various stakeholders’ roles in the protection of intangible place-making heritage: The case of Guchengping Village
Purpose The protection of traditional grassroots place-making knowledge and skills that comprise valuable intangible heritage has not been attracting enough attention in the field of post-disaster reconstruction and recovery. Based on the Guchengping Village’s reconstruction that followed the Lushan earthquake (Sichuan, China), the purpose of this paper is to identify the benefits of a co-design approach for post-disaster reconstruction and recov…
A Framework for Convergence Research in the Hazards and Disaster Field: The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure Converge Facility
The goal of this article is twofold: to clarify the tenets of convergence research and to motivate such research in the hazards and disaster field. Here, convergence research is defined as an approach to knowledge production and action that involves diverse teams working together in novel ways—transcending disciplinary and organizational boundaries—to address vexing social, economic, environmental, and technical challenges in an effort to reduce …
Airdropped urban condominiums and stay-behind elders’ well-being: 10-Year Lessons Learned From the Post-Wenchuan Earthquake Rural Recovery
Covid-19 and beyond: Social work interventions for supporting homeless populations
During the COVID-19 emergency response of ‘staying the blazes home’ in Nova Scotia, Canada, frontline social workers worked tirelessly ‘out of the home’ to secure safe dwellings for those on the street, living in shelters, and/or precariously housed. When the province moves to the reopening and recovery stage, social work strategies will focus on reducing homeless people’s vulnerabilities, aiming to offer safe and dignified living
What Methods Do Social Scientists Use to Study Disasters? An Analysis of the Social Science Extreme Events Research Network
Methods matter. They influence what we know and who we come to know about in the context of hazards and disasters. Research methods are of profound importance to the scholarly advancement of the field and, accordingly, a growing number of publications focus on research methods and ethical practices associated with the study of extreme events. Still, notable gaps exist. The National Science Foundation-funded Social Science Extreme Events Research …
Integration of the Disaster Component into Social Work Curriculum: Teaching Undergraduate Social Work Research Methods Course during Covid-19
This article aims to develop community-contextualised pedagogical innovations to embed disaster components into core social work curriculum through a research methods course. Professional social work education continues to lack a community-contextualised curriculum and professional training that reflects the complexities of extreme events associated with community and human service. This absence jeopardises the advancement of social work engageme…
Cultural Competence for Hazards and Disaster Researchers: Framework and Training Module
Although the need for cultural competence among healthcare service providers and other practitioners has long been recognized, there has been much less focus on this concept in the field of hazards and disaster research. To help fill this gap, this technical note offers a definitional framework for building cultural competence among hazards and disaster researchers and describes a training module that assists with developing such competency. Draw…
Promoting Environmental Justice and Sustainability in Social Work Practice in Rural Community: A Systematic Review
Social work’s response to global climate change has dramatically increased over the last several years. Similarly, growing attention has been paid to rural social work; less clear, however, is how social work, responsive to global climate change, is developed, deployed, and understood in rural contexts; this systematic review elaborates on current social work contributions (research, practice, and policymaking), promoting environmental justice an…
Building Emergency Response Capacity: Multi-Career-Stage Social Workers’ Engagement with Homeless Sector during the First Two Waves of Covid-19 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
The dramatic increase of global extreme events (e.g., natural, technological, and willful hazards) propels social workers to be equipped with emergency response capacity, supporting affected individuals, families, and communities to prepare, respond, and recover from disasters. Although social workers have historically been engaged in emergency response, social work curriculum and professional training remain slow to adapt, jeopardizing their cap…
On the Front Lines: Nonprofits in the Homeless-serving Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article examines the experiences of the nonprofit, homeless-serving sector during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Qualitative interviews were conducted with staff and volunteers from frontline organizations in the two largest communities in Nova Scotia, Canada. Participants reported much strain on their organizations' human resources, but also the ability to adjust service delivery mechanisms quickly in order to continue offering su…
Physical health caregiver, mental wellness supporter, and overall well-being advocate: Women's roles towards animal welfare during the Covid-19 emergency response
Women's health-specific contributions in emergency response stages pertain primarily to family and community-based rescue and support-focused roles. As disasters affect both human beings and their animal co-inhabitants, comprehensive literature exploring women's contributions towards companion animal welfare in emergency response settings remains sparse. COVID-19-triggered public health mitigation strategies caused diverse challenges relating to …
Promoting Emergency Response for Homeless Service Agencies: Field-Based Recommendations from Two Municipalities in Nova Scotia, Canada
The fast unfolding of the global COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected the homeless sector by triggering tremendous challenges for individuals experiencing homelessness (IEHs) and related service agencies. This quick-response research project qualitatively collected time-sensitive data from the IEHs and service stakeholders (SSs) experiences, challenges, efforts, and suggestions during the first wave of COVID-19 in the two most popula…
Disaster Education in the Context of Postsecondary Education: A Systematic Literature Review
The upward tendency of global disasters and associated losses urgently calls for enhancing disaster education (DE) and professional training. Although postsecondary education institutions (PSEIs) play an essential role in this educational mission, a comprehensive understanding of DE development in PSEIs remains unclear. In response to this knowledge deficit, this article employed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analy…
Terminology and Language Used in Indigenous-Specific Gender and Sexuality Diversity Studies: A Systematic Review
Cultural responsivity in academic research is central to the use of language that is representative and inclusive of Indigenous worldviews on gender and sexuality diversity. This article uses the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) approach to explore current studies’ contribution to the use of gender and sexuality diverse terminology and language that is representative of Indigenous worldviews. A systemati…
College Students and Environmental Disasters: A Review of the Literature
College students are a unique population occupying a distinct life-course and transition period between adolescence and adulthood. Although not monolithic in experiences, knowledge, and demographics, this diverse population is particularly susceptible to immediate, short-term, mid-term, and long-term disaster impacts. Recently, disaster research focusing on college students has rightly focused on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Although the pandem…
Improving the feedback loop between community‐ and policy‐level learning: Building resilience of coastal communities in Bangladesh
Building community resilience has been widely recognized as a learning process at multiple societal levels, yet few prior studies have examined the feedback loop between community‐ and policy‐level learning. Following a qualitative research approach, we document experiential and transformative forms of learning from coastal cyclones in Bangladesh that help local community and their institutions mitigating the impact of cyclonic shocks and recover…
Learning Green Social Work in Global Disaster Contexts: A Case Study Approach
Green social work (GSW) is a nascent framework within the social work field that provides insights regarding social workers' engagement in disaster settings. Although this framework has recently garnered more attention, it remains under-researched and underdeveloped within the context of social work research, education, and practice in Canada and internationally. To further develop GSW in social work education and professional training, we consid…
Bringing birth fathers to the forefront: A two‐decade scoping review of birth father experiences in adoption
In adoption, it is common to consider the adopted child, the adoptive parents, and the birth mother as part of the adoption galaxy. Yet, birth fathers are often missing elements in adoption‐focused research. This article aims to comprehensively understand the current knowledge regarding birth fathers' experiences in adoption. Adapting the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‐Analyses approach, this review identified 100 peer‐…
Trying differently’ towards improving school experiences: Systematically reviewing research on school experiences for students with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (Fasd) and their teachers
Queering Disasters, Climate Change and Humanitarian Crises
Voice for the Voiceless: Amplifying Animal Issues in Disaster Management and Media
How do the media portray companion animals, commonly known as pets, and their guardians during natural disasters? This study explores the crucial role media has played in shaping the public’s understanding of animal-related issues during the wildfires that swept through Nova Scotia, Canada, in May and June 2023. This case study examines how various platforms—from Twitter to government websites and local news outlets—covered the challenges faced b…
Factors affecting the risk of gender-based violence among 2SLGBTQIA+ adolescents and youth: A scoping review of climate change-related vulnerabilities
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a pervasive and growing issue that affects diverse populations worldwide. This study aimed to synthesize the factors affecting the risk of GBV among 2SLGBTQIA+ adolescents and youth. A scoping review was conducted using international databases (Web of Science, Scopus, Proquest, PubMed, Embase, EBSCOhost) since 2009. The studies were independently appraised by two reviewers guided by the PRISMA approach. Ninety-nine …
Examining the relationship between weather-related power outages and disaster risk perception
Power outages are visible consequences of extreme weather, with effects on individual well-being. However, little is known about how uneven exposure to outages, especially those directly linked to extreme weather, shapes perceived risk of disasters. Disaster risk perception is defined as individuals' judgement of the likelihood and consequences of future disasters, including effects on health and economic well-being. It can influence protective a…
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (12 works) · Engineering (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Public relations (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Disaster Response and Management (8 works) · Business (6 works)