Paper Analysis of the Relevance of Place Attachment to Environment-Related Behavior: A Systematic Literature Review

Xueli Feng, Zhibin Zhang () and Xianfei Chen
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Xueli Feng: College of Geography and Environmental Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China
Zhibin Zhang: College of Geography and Environmental Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China
Xianfei Chen: College of Geography and Environmental Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 23, 1-16

Abstract: The discourse regarding place attachment (PA) has grown even more divergent, and an array of scholars and practitioners apply place attachment concepts in their work, drawing out associations between PA and environment-related behavior and revealing how an understanding of people’s attachment to place can influence research, policy, and design practice. In this paper, we use bibliometrics and CiteSpace software to quantify and visualize 528 publications of place attachment and environment-related behavior research (PAEBR) in the core collection database of Web of Science (WoS) from 1 January 2004 to 1 November 2022 and trace the main overview of the research from the number of published papers. First, we present the number of papers published, research discipline distribution, the core authors of articles, the fundamental condition of countries and research organizations, and the major journals of articles involved in PAEBR through bibliometrics. Second, we identify trending research topics in PAEBR using keyword co-occurrence analysis. The results show that the four research trending topics involved climate change, pro-environmental behavior, and environmental threat. All of these provide readers with a preliminary understanding of PAEBR, indicating that cooperation and analysis involving multiple disciplines, specialties, and perspectives will become the dominant trend in this field.

Keywords: place attachment; environment-related behavior; CiteSpace; mapping knowledge domains; trending topics (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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