Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria adopted to identify papers within the scope of the review

Studies that include a technical application of network analysis in the context of disaster management, urban systems and/or complex adaptive systems, to gain structure-based network insights

Studies that use “network” as a general descriptive term and do not explicitly include applications of network/graph theory

Papers that adopt methods such as neural networks and Bayesian networks which aim to gain insights about probabilities of events

Discourse papers on urban systems, complex adaptive systems, and disaster management