Visions of Climate Change and Economist: bibliometrics and trends
climate change economics, bibliometry, environmental economics
The search to understand how climate change is treated by economists reveals that questions surrounding the effects of climate change have been transmitted to society in a misguided way, whether due to the excessive volume of information or the narrative constructed and presented. The fact that persists is the difficulty in implementing mitigation or adaptation actions at the same pace observed in the changes that have occurred in the climate in the last 30 years since ECO-92, in Rio de Janeiro. Knowledge construction has been maturing, with well-formed R&D clusters, compared to the evolution process of the last 30 years. There is a dominance of research indexed by the themes “adaptation” and “risks of climate change”, to the detriment of other themes and it is clear that the economics of climate change has been one of the themes that attracts the least attention among economists. It was only after the Kyoto Protocol and its financial obligations came into force that scientific interest in climate change spread in academia with exponential growth. However, there is a low diversity of authors, which reinforces a characteristic of isolation and restriction of the flow of ideas and thoughts, but it can be said that there is a nascent climate change economy.