Mapping Environmental/Sustainable Governance Research in Chile: A Bibliometric and Network Analysis

Julien Vanhulst and Adrián E. Beling
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Julien Vanhulst: Social Sciences Department, Universidad Católica del Maule, Talca 3460000, Chile
Adrián E. Beling: Global Studies Programme, FLACSO, Buenos Aires C1050AAN, Argentina

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 11, 1-20

Abstract: In light of increasing concerns about the efficacy of environmental governance (EG) to address the global sustainability challenges of the Anthropocene era, more integrative, transversal, and far-reaching approaches, referred to here as sustainability governance (SG), are gaining ground both in governance praxis and in research. Empirical and methodological challenges emerge from this conceptual analytical cleavage between EG and SG. Through a combination of bibliometric and network analysis, the objective of this article is to explore the structure and trends in the field of EG/SG research in Chile, internationally regarded as the posterchild of Latin-American EG/SG, and derive empirical insights to feed the analytical distinction between EG and SG that informs global debates about ways forward towards an effective governance in the Anthropocene. Our results show that scientific research on EG/SG has experienced a significant increase since the 1990s. We find that while the topical range of the field is broad, including water governance, biodiversity conservation, environmental institutions, climate change and energy issues, and environmental conflicts and justice, key cross-cutting socio-economic and cultural dynamics underpinning the prevalent, yet fundamentally unsustainable, ways of life and economic model are virtually absent from the field, against their growing presence in diagnoses of “sustained unsustainability”.

Keywords: bibliometric analysis; social network analysis; environmental/sustainable governance; scientific knowledge; critical sustainability studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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