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Risk Management of Marine Infrastructures under Disaster Environments: A Review and Future Prospects
Zhiwei Nian, Zhongkai Yang and Bin Xu

To promote the risk management of marine infrastructures under disaster environments from the perspective of sustainable development, this study quantitatively conducted a systematic literature analysis in the safety risk field of marine infrastructures from coast through offshore to high seas over the past 25 years. At first, a bibliometric assessment based on 1593 publications was performed using bibliometrics methodology. Furthermore, the current status and development changes over different periods from 2000 to 2024 were revealed based on the three links of disaster chain such as marine disaster environments, subsea infrastructures performance, and safety risk and emergency. Last, the major challenges, coping strategies and research trends on the safety of marine infrastructures are proposed from the future prospects. The research shows that: (1) Over the past 25 years, the number of published scientific literature in the safety risk field of marine infrastructures has grown rapidly. 49% of the total publication volume came from scholars in the United States, China and Australia, who are the first three publishing countries and strong promoters in the field of marine infrastructure researches. (2) Compared with research institutions from the United States, China, Australia, UK and European countries, it can be found that they all focus on disaster environments such as tsunamis, earthquakes and climate changes, while Chinese scholars have also paid more attention to submarine landslides. (3) Future research priorities in the field of marine infrastructures focus on risk, emergency, and artificial intelligence prediction, which are helpful to effectively respond to major disaster environments, enhance disaster resistance and relief capabilities, and promote the global eco-friendly and sustainable development goals.

Keywords: marine infrastructures; disaster environments; safety risk and emergency; bibliometrics; sustainable development