TY - JOUR
T1 - Low-carbon economy and policy implications
T2 - a systematic review and bibliometric analysis
AU - Wang, Jingtian
AU - Zhou, Yi
AU - Cooke, Fang Lee
N1 - Funding Information:
The inception of the paper stemmed from a project: ‘Low Carbon Economy: A Multi-Level and Multi-Disciplinary Analysis of the Role of Stakeholders’ funded by the Woodside Monash Energy Partnership and led by Fang Lee Cooke. All authors contributed to the conception and design of the paper. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by Jingtian Wang under the guidance of Yi Zhou and Fang Lee Cooke. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Jingtian Wang. Yi Zhou and Fang Lee Cooke provided advice on the draft and revised sections of the manuscript. All authors participated in revisions of the manuscript and read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
Funding Information:
This article is an outcome of a project funded by the Woodside Monash Energy Partnership- WMEP-IT-2A-001.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In the face of the rapid increase of carbon emissions, climate warming, and an epidemic situation, low-carbon economy is attracting growing attention. Using bibliometric analysis and machine learning methods, the paper conducts a systematic review in the low-carbon economy. Using the Web of Science Core Collection database, 1433 articles from 1990 to 2021 were selected for review. We find that the trajectories of the low-carbon economy research can be divided into four phases: exploration, fermentation, rising, and flourishing. The low-carbon economy research can be categorized into five clusters: low-carbon energy policy, carbon footprint and carbon trading, energy–economy–environment system, energy efficiency and its decomposition, and carbon emission drivers. The findings of this review study shed light on the role and effects of low-carbon economic policies on energy futures.
AB - In the face of the rapid increase of carbon emissions, climate warming, and an epidemic situation, low-carbon economy is attracting growing attention. Using bibliometric analysis and machine learning methods, the paper conducts a systematic review in the low-carbon economy. Using the Web of Science Core Collection database, 1433 articles from 1990 to 2021 were selected for review. We find that the trajectories of the low-carbon economy research can be divided into four phases: exploration, fermentation, rising, and flourishing. The low-carbon economy research can be categorized into five clusters: low-carbon energy policy, carbon footprint and carbon trading, energy–economy–environment system, energy efficiency and its decomposition, and carbon emission drivers. The findings of this review study shed light on the role and effects of low-carbon economic policies on energy futures.
KW - Bibliometrics
KW - Energy policy
KW - Low-carbon economy
KW - Machine learning
KW - Systematic review
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85129163915&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11356-022-20381-0
DO - 10.1007/s11356-022-20381-0
M3 - Review Article
C2 - 35486269
AN - SCOPUS:85129163915
SN - 0944-1344
VL - 29
SP - 65432
EP - 65451
JO - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
JF - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
ER -
