Abstract
The world’s cultural and natural heritage has been gradually affected by climate change, and although the research agendas of many countries have included this reality since 2003, there is still an incipient approach to it, with analysis techniques used being limited. In addition, there are very few case studies that describe in detail the adaptation processes of spaces to these new conditions. The aim of this research is to identify the scientific production related to the impact of climate change on cultural and natural heritage indexed in the international databases Scopus and Web of Science (WoS), which will enable to establish maturity of the research on this subject. The methodology used for the analysis of the data obtained is bibliometric analysis; evaluative and relational measures are applied to a set of 78 articles (45 in Scopus and 33 in WoS) and to a joint base of 47 articles after deleting those articles that overlap in both databases. The result is a scientific mapping that enables observing of the evolution of knowledge generation in this field of study. The main findings show that research is incipient, with a large presence of transient authors with a single publication, the research is limited to the geographical scope of Europe and North America, neglecting many other areas, the impact which is measured by the citation of articles is very low, the relational measures corroborate that the thematic approach is new by identifying a high presence of isolated relationships among authors. The results obtained will be very useful for researchers working in this scientific area, as they can find a synthesis of scientific production in this document, allowing them to draw their own conclusions regarding the current gaps in research; constituting the starting point of their research, with the aim of filling these gaps.
Highlights
IntroductionClimate change (CC) is a phenomenon that is reflected by an increase in the planet’s average temperature and constitutes a constant challenge that society faces due to its negative effects on the environment at a global level (changes in ecosystems and desertification, rise in sea level as a consequence of the melting of the poles, ocean acidification, etc.), on the economy, health and society
Climate change (CC) is a phenomenon that is reflected by an increase in the planet’s average temperature and constitutes a constant challenge that society faces due to its negative effects on the environment at a global level, on the economy, health and society
The traditional overlapping (TO) % between Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) establishes a similarity of 65.96% between bases, which in other words means that there is only 34.04% disparity between them
Summary
Climate change (CC) is a phenomenon that is reflected by an increase in the planet’s average temperature and constitutes a constant challenge that society faces due to its negative effects on the environment at a global level (changes in ecosystems and desertification, rise in sea level as a consequence of the melting of the poles, ocean acidification, etc.), on the economy, health and society. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) defines climate change as “any change in climate over time either due to natural variability or as a result of human activity”. The Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) defines climate change by focusing on human activity as “a change of climate that is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity, which alters the composition of the global atmosphere and in addition to natural climate variability over comparable time periods”. There is less research on the implications of CC on cultural and natural heritage, being necessary to understand the risks related to climate change [3] in this area [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16]
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