Volume 18, No. 6, 2021
A Bibliometric Study And Knowledge Mapping On The Assessment Of Environmental Issues In Bangladesh Between 1975 And 2021
Md. Armanul Haque, Dr. Xiaojuan Zhang, Dr. Md. Shafiul Alam, Md. Sahadat Hossain, Md. Arifur Rahman, Tanjil Bhuiyan , Sohel Mehedi, Farzana Islam Any, Mst. Parveen Sultana
Abstract
In Bangladesh, environmental degradation and the depletion of natural resources are caused by poverty, overpopulation, inadequate or limited access to education, and ineffective communication about the causes and effects of environmental issues. These issues are caused by several different factors, including climate change, diverse pollution, land-use change, and ecological destruction. Intense economic activity and fast urbanization in Bangladesh are creating new environmental problems.The study explores the top authors, countries, and organizations that contributed to the environmental challenges research in Bangladesh between 1975 to 2021 in the Scopus database. It also aimed at examining the top keywords to find the most and least valued areas/topics of this field. This study used the bibliometric analysis for 415 documents related to environmental challenges and Bangladesh retrieved from the Scopus database on August 25, 2021. Citations and the number of documents are the tools to find top contributors. This study considers the urge of much interdisciplinary and diverse research on the connectivity between government policies, industrial waste, plastic pollution, environmental sustainability, and combating ecological challenges for all the affected parts of the countries. This study is the first attempt at a bibliographic analysis of Bangladesh's environmental challenges that provide an extensive overview of published documents and scopes for more research to combat the challenges.
Pages: 1221-1243
Keywords: Bibliometric analysis; Environmental pollution; Ecological imbalance; Climate change; Sustainability