Green Infrastructures and Grand Environmental Challenges: A Review of Research Trends by Keyword

Caparrós-Martínez, José Luis; Milán-García, Juan; Martínez-Vázquez, Rosa María; Valenciano, Jaime de Pablo

doi:10.3390/agronomy11040782

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“…e results are interpreted based on the relative positions of the points and their distribution along the dimensions. e more similar the words are in their distribution, the closer they are represented on the map [67]. Apart from that, in the analysis of the keywords (Figure 4), two differentiated groups are observed.…”

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Global Research Trend Analysis of Osmanthus fragrans Based on Bibliometrix

Chen

Gong

2022

Mobile Information Systems

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Osmanthus fragrans is the ornamental and practical excellent garden tree featured with greening, beautification, and fragrance in one, and has been domesticated in China for 2500 years. Besides, an increasing number of papers on O. fragrans have been published so far, but these contributions have not been analyzed comprehensively. Considering that, in this research, a bibliometric methodology is adopted on documents related to O. fragrans obtained from the WoS database. The study demonstrated the main countries and institutions in terms of this field. Among them, the Chinese research on O. fragrans is in a leading position in the world. Regarding the specialization, the institution ranking is led by the Nanjing Forestry University, Henan University, and Zhejiang University. Apart from that, analysis on the keywords also highlighted the lines of research associated with plant functionality (e.g., antioxidant, antifungal activity, and anti-inflammatory activities), natural products (e.g., carotenoids, aroma, flavonoids, essential oils, phenylethanoid glycosides, and salidroside), and molecular biology (e.g., genetic diversity, transcription factors, and phylogeny). The results from this study also revealed that there is a lack of research on the production mechanism of floral fragrance and the flower color regulation mechanism in O. fragrans. Moreover, the aroma and flower color are gradually developing into the main areas of research on O. fragrans. It is also expected that future research in this field will focus on biochemistry and biomolecules.

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Global Research Trend Analysis of Osmanthus fragrans Based on Bibliometrix

Chen

Gong

2022

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“…Measurability in economic, health, and spatial planning policies and strategies is required for protecting urban systems and biodiversity. The fact that energy and natural resources for producing products and services not only threaten natural habitats, but that this threat also has an impact on human well-being, is a great indicator [50]. Traditional economics has not evaluated these environmental services.…”

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“…Similarly, in Filter 8 (GI/ES/economic valuation), it three publications were found, but one of them was a conference paper and in the other publication no economic output was generated. The studies including GI/ES/economic valuation (under same title), one publication made in 2010 [50], is the first and only publication that fulfils this criteria in the Scopus ® database. The lack of research in this area can be addressed.…”

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“…Although regarded as relatively new, the two fields of study, namely green infrastructure and ecosystem services studies, have grown considerably over the past two decades. Therefore, quantitative literature studies have been conducted separately in both fields of study: GI [30,50,51] and ES [51][52][53]. Although the concepts of these have begun to be used together in urban planning-based studies, very few bibliometric analyses of joint studies have been made.…”

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The Ecosystem Services and Green Infrastructure: A Systematic Review and the Gap of Economic Valuation

Mirici

2022

Sustainability

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This study was conducted to determine the trends at the intersection of studies made on green infrastructure and ecosystem services, which have frequently become preferred in establishing urban−green space relationships in global research. Green-related concepts have frequently been used from past to present in order to neutralise the increasing pressures on urban dynamics resulting from rapid urbanisation. Green corridor, green belt, green structure, and green finger/hand concepts have been used to provide recreational opportunities, protect nature, and keep urban sprawl under control. For the last decade, however, in addition to the traditional green concepts, green infrastructure (GI) and ecosystem services (ES) have been preferred in contemporary urban planning, as they enable the integration of the ecological concerns of the landscape and the socio-political perspective. The aim of this study is to detect the trends of the green infrastructure and ecosystem services association, and to reveal these trends in the common area with the bibliometric mapping method. The economic concept and its analysing use at the intersection of green infrastructure and ecosystem services were explored with VOSviewer using the Scopus® database. Furthermore, the number of documents, which initially began with around 39,719 studies, was reduced by filtering through systematic reviews, to only three documents that met the economic valuation criteria. In this way, a lack of economic analyses, creating a serious research gap within the framework of green infrastructure and ecosystem services, was quantitatively determined.

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“…Studies working on quantifying the cooling impact of greenness (urban parks) are various [62][63][64]. Climate change in large cities has drawn much attention so that urban planners have been focusing more on green space planning and the green environment protection of cities [65,66]. This review resulted in mostly observational studies with a moderate level of grading as most studies included expert opinion on the subject.…”

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Reported evidence of greenness co-benefits on health, climate change mitigation, and adaptation: a systematic review of the literature

Kınay¹,

Ji²

2022

Environ. Res.: Climate

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This systematic review aims to appraise the quality of evidence on greenness co-benefits of climate change and health. Although there is evidence of the co-benefits of greenness on climate change and health, the research is of poor quality when it comes to addressing the connections and identifying mediators of greenness and climate change mitigation associations. As a result, the evaluation sought to identify areas where there was little or no evidence in order to guide future research. Current published studies mainly covered six health outcome categories (birth outcomes, physical activity, mental wellbeing, obesity, mortality, and cognitive function). For adaptation, greenness and climate change associated studies included (1) cooling down effect and urban heat island impact, (2) air quality improvement, and (3) flood mitigation. For each outcome, we performed a systematic search of publications on Web of Science, PubMed, Google Scholar, and Science Direct databases from 2000 to July 2021. After retrieving records in which full papers were assessed and non-English articles were excluded, a total of 173 articles, including research articles and reviews, were chosen. To ascertain the strength of evidence, all interventions were assessed using the GRADE approach. The quality of evidence ranged from moderate to high for most categories of health outcomes (birth outcomes, mental wellbeing, mortality). GRADE assessment provided low-quality evidence for studies on air quality, flood mitigation, physical activity, and obesity due to poor study design (observational or limited data) and high heterogeneity (some data provided variability), and the review concluded that there is insufficient evidence on firm recommendations for public health interventions. Due to a huge number of low quality evidence and several areas of overlapping study, this evaluation recognized the co-benefits of greenness on climate change and health as an understudied field and hence as a research gap. The evidentiary foundation for greenness-climate change mitigation links, on the other hand, was generally weak. Future research on climate change greenness co-benefit interventions should pay special attention to flood prevention, air quality interactions, and health effects including physical activity and obesity.

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Green Infrastructures and Grand Environmental Challenges: A Review of Research Trends by Keyword

Cited by 14 publications

References 56 publications

Global Research Trend Analysis of Osmanthus fragrans Based on Bibliometrix

Global Research Trend Analysis of Osmanthus fragrans Based on Bibliometrix

The Ecosystem Services and Green Infrastructure: A Systematic Review and the Gap of Economic Valuation

Reported evidence of greenness co-benefits on health, climate change mitigation, and adaptation: a systematic review of the literature

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