Worldwide Research on Land Use and Land Cover in the Amazon Region
| Autor: | Néstor Montalván-Burbano, Andrés Velastegui-Montoya, Miguel Gurumendi-Noriega, Fernando Morante-Carballo, Marcos Adami |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Environmental change Geography Planning and Development Biodiversity Scopus TJ807-830 Land cover 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law TD194-195 cocitation 01 natural sciences Renewable energy sources bibliometric analysis land cover co-occurrence GE1-350 Amazon 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Sustainable development Land use Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Amazon rainforest Environmental resource management land use knowledge mapping Environmental sciences Geography Work (electrical) business |
| Zdroj: | riUAL. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Almería Universidad de Almería Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 6039, p 6039 (2021) Sustainability Volume 13 Issue 11 |
| Popis: | Land cover is an important descriptor of the earth’s terrestrial surface. It is also crucial to determine the biophysical processes in global environmental change. Land-use change showcases the management of the land while revealing what motivated the alteration of the land cover. The type of land use can represent local economic and social benefits, framed towards regional sustainable development. The Amazon stands out for being the largest tropical forest globally, with the most extraordinary biodiversity, and plays an essential role in climate regulation. The present work proposes to carry out a bibliometric analysis of 1590 articles indexed in the Scopus database. It uses both Microsoft Excel and VOSviewer software for the evaluation of author keywords, authors, and countries. The method encompasses (i) search criteria, (ii) search and document compilation, (iii) software selection and data extraction, and (iv) data analysis. The results classify the main research fields into nine main topics with increasing relevance: ‘Amazon’, ‘deforestation’, ‘remote sensing’, ‘land use and land cover change’, and ‘land use’. In conclusion, the cocitation authors’ network reveals the development of such areas and the interest they present due to their worldwide importance. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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