气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): A quantitative analysis of the causes of the global climate change research distribution

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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.08.013
	A quantitative analysis of the causes of the global climate change research distribution
	Pasgaard M.; Strange N.
发表日期	2013
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	23 期号:6
英文摘要	During the last decades of growing scientific, political and public attention to global climate change, it has become increasingly clear that the present and projected impacts from climate change, and the ability adapt to the these changes, are not evenly distributed across the globe. This paper investigates whether the need for knowledge on climate changes in the most vulnerable regions of the world is met by the supply of knowledge measured by scientific research publications from the last decade. A quantitative analysis of more than 15,000 scientific publications from 197 countries investigates the distribution of climate change research and the potential causes of this distribution. More than 13 explanatory variables representing vulnerability, geographical, demographical, economical and institutional indicators are included in the analysis. The results show that the supply of climate change knowledge is biased toward richer countries, which are more stable and less corrupt, have higher school enrolment and expenditures on research and development, emit more carbon and are less vulnerable to climate change. Similarly, the production of knowledge, analyzed by author affiliations, is skewed away from the poorer, fragile and more vulnerable regions of the world. A quantitative keywords analysis of all publications shows that different knowledge domains and research themes dominate across regions, reflecting the divergent global concerns in relation to climate change. In general, research on climate change in more developed countries tend to focus on mitigation aspects, while in developing countries issues of adaptation and human or social impacts (droughts and diseases) dominate. Based on these findings, this paper discusses the gap between the supply of and need for climate change knowledge, the potential causes and constraints behind the imbalanced distribution of knowledge, and its implications for adaptation and policymaking. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Adaptation; Bibliometric analysis; Knowledge production; Policy; Stability; Vulnerability
学科领域	adaptive management; climate change; developing world; nature-society relations; policy making; quantitative analysis; stabilization; vulnerability
语种	英语
scopus关键词	adaptive management; climate change; developing world; nature-society relations; policy making; quantitative analysis; stabilization; vulnerability
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117863
作者单位	University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science, Department of Food and Resource Economics, Rolighedsvej 23, DK-1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark; University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science, Department of Food and Resource Economics, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Rolighedsvej 23, DK-1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Pasgaard M.,Strange N.. A quantitative analysis of the causes of the global climate change research distribution[J],2013,23(6).
APA	Pasgaard M.,&Strange N..(2013).A quantitative analysis of the causes of the global climate change research distribution.Global Environmental Change,23(6).
MLA	Pasgaard M.,et al."A quantitative analysis of the causes of the global climate change research distribution".Global Environmental Change 23.6(2013).