Abstract
Pandemics have affected all aspects of human life, including environmental issues. This article analyses environmental policy issues during a COVID-19 pandemic using a bibliometric approach method from 173 published articles. Bibliometric data was retrieved from the 2020 Scopus database with "environmental policy" keyword by making use of VOSviewer, using co-occurrence visualization maps to evaluate the conceptual clusters. Further, co-authorship analysis was used to evaluate collaboration between authors and countries' related environmental policy publications. The review result shows, there are seven main clusters of concepts related to environmental policy. The United States is the most productive country on environmental policy literature. Finally, the environmental policy issue revolves around eleven areas. These results inform future research to a more comprehensive understanding of environmental policy.
Highlights
In 2020, the most dominant global issue was the COVID-19 pandemic [1]
We describe bibliometric analysis based on Scopus database search results
The environmental policy issue during the 2020 period was published in various types of documents in the Scopus database
Summary
In 2020, the most dominant global issue was the COVID-19 pandemic [1]. Human life is greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic; the environment is no exception [2, 3]. The pandemic has caused significant changes in the social life of society that were never imagined before [4, 5]. The spread of the pandemic has negative impacts on the governance of natural resources in the nations. According to Barouki et al (2021), pandemic and environmental problems are related [6]. There needs to be an integrative global strategy that leads to policies to protect humans and ecosystems both and in the future
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