A Bibliometric Analysis on Conservation Land Trust and Implication for China
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Scientometric Analysis Method
2.2. Data Collection
3. Results
3.1. An Overview of Land Trust Research
3.2. Thematic Focus Areas
3.3. Document Co-Citation Analysis
4. Discussion
4.1. Trends for Land Trust Research
4.2. Applicability of Land Trust in China
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Cluster | Keywords (Occurrence Counts) |
---|---|
#1 | land trust (66); conservation easement (51); land use (24); private land conservation (18); land conservation (16); attitudes (16) |
#2 | conservation (42); biodiversity (25); ecosystem services (25); protected area (21); climate change (16) |
#3 | trust (67); social capital (38); community land trust (33); sustainability (27); governance (27); collaboration (19); China (18); Kenya (17); land (16); indigenous (16); agriculture (15); property rights (15); participation (15) |
Cluster | Cluster Name | Size | Year | Silhouette |
---|---|---|---|---|
#0 | conservation easement | 47 | 2004 | 0.968 |
#1 | land acquisition | 39 | 2009 | 0.948 |
#2 | knowledge exchange | 39 | 2014 | 0.989 |
#3 | wildlife interaction | 38 | 2017 | 0.992 |
#4 | water quality | 37 | 2014 | 0.994 |
#5 | land trusts | 33 | 2012 | 0.98 |
#6 | social capital | 30 | 2015 | 0.982 |
Publisher | Article | Year | Burst Value | Start | End |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Massachusetts: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | Reinventing Conservation Easements: A Critical Examination and Ideas for Reform | 2005 | 3.51 | 2006 | 2008 |
Conservation Biology | Land Trusts and Conservation Easements: Who Is Conserving What for Whom? | 2004 | 7.01 | 2007 | 2009 |
Natural Areas Journal | Conservation easements as a conservation strategy: Is there a sense to the spatial distribution of easements | 2005 | 4.66 | 2007 | 2009 |
Conservation Biology | Conservation Easements: Biodiversity Protection and Private Use | 2007 | 6.45 | 2008 | 2011 |
Massachusetts: The MIT Press | Buying Nature: The Limits of Land Acquisition as a Conservation Strategy, 1780–2004 | 2005 | 3.5 | 2008 | 2010 |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleYang, Chuan, Mingfeng Li, and Ziqi Wang. 2022. "A Bibliometric Analysis on Conservation Land Trust and Implication for China" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 19: 12741. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912741