Bibliometric analysis of the relationship between "climate change", "forest fire" and "waste management"

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🔬研究者:Identifies a gap in interdisciplinary research linking climate change, forest fires, and waste management.

🏛政策担当者:Highlights need for coordinated waste management and wildfire mitigation policies.

Climate change is recognized as one of the most serious environmental problems today. Globally, it is acknowledged that climate change has significant impacts on the environment, health, and the economy (IPCC, 2022). As a result of greenhouse gas emissions, climate change is considered a serious global problem. It causes extreme weather conditions, such as extreme temperatures, torrential rains, droughts, and wildfires. Rising global temperatures, extreme weather events, and droughts lead to the drying out of vegetation, which in turn causes wildfires. Wildfires are devastating and have serious impacts on biodiversity, the carbon cycle, human settlements, and human life (Wasserman & Mueller, 2023). Measures to reduce the incidence of forest fires, such as tree thinning, reduced fuel consumption, and invasive species control, are important in forestry. However, these measures generate significant amounts of biomass waste. Burning or decomposing this waste contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and indirectly contributes to climate change (Hagenbo et al., 2022). In this regard, waste management practices play an important role in raising awareness about the urgency of the problem, contributing to the reduction of CO₂ emissions and supporting circular economy strategies (Kumar et al., 2021). Waste management does, in fact, have a positive impact on reducing CO₂ emissions and circular economy strategies (Kumar et al., 2021). However, the links between climate change, wildfires, and waste management have not been sufficiently explored in the literature. This situation, in fact, highlights the need for interdisciplinary research and management strategies. The increase in scientific publications in recent years has created the need for a systematic literature review. Bibliometric analyses are considered a powerful tool for revealing publication trends, co-authorship, and topics (Aria & Cuccurullo, 2017). The aim of this study is to examine, both quantitatively and thematically, scientific publications on climate change, forest fires, and waste management, and to identify research gaps in this field.The main research questions are as follows:1. What is the distribution of publications on climate change, forest fires,and waste management over the years, and what is the citation intensity?2. Which authors, countries, and journals stand out in this field?3. What kind of information do keyword analyses and thematic clusters provide about research trends and interrelationships between topics?

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