Ecosystem Services Research in Green Sustainable Science and Technology Field: Trends, Issues, and Future Directions

Juan Tang, Yudi Fang, Ziyan Tian, Yinghua Gong () and Liang Yuan
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Juan Tang: School of Business, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China
Yudi Fang: School of Accounting, Hunan University of Technology and Business, Changsha 410205, China
Ziyan Tian: School of Business, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China
Yinghua Gong: Department of Applied Economics, Shanghai National Accounting Institute, Shanghai 201702, China
Liang Yuan: Yangzhou Polytechnic Institute, Yangzhou 225127, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-22

Abstract: Ecosystem services (ES) has an important place in sustainability science research as a powerful bridge between society and nature. Based on 513 papers correlated with ES in the field of green sustainable science and technology (GSST) indexed in ISI Web of Science database, we employ the bibliometric methods to analyze the disciplinary co-occurrence, keyword co-occurrence, partnerships, publication characteristics, co-citation, research themes, and transformative potential of these papers. The results show that innovation in research themes of the ES research in the GSST field is increasing rapidly in 2015–2018, while innovation in research themes is decreasing in 2018–2021. Moreover, keyword co-occurrence analysis indicates that the hot topics of previous research with respect to “environmental service”, “capacity”, “perception”, “landscape”, “forest management”, “carbon sequestration”, “contingent valuation”, and “sustainable development”. Recent hotspots include “blue carbon”, “environmental impact”, “coastal”, “ecosystem services mapping”, and “use/land cover change”. Finally, the cluster analysis of co-cited references abstract thirteen largest clusters. The top six clusters are “mapping ecosystem service”, “spatial gradient difference”, “ecosystem service value”, “water-related ecosystem service”, “linking forest landscape model”, and “culture ecosystem service”. Moreover, the integration of spatial, value, environmental, and sociocultural dimensions may help to develop supportive policies, which is a future direction of ES research in the GSST field.

Keywords: ecosystem services; green sustainable science technology; CiteSpace; bibliometric analysis; knowledge mapping (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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