Environmental Geography
Environmental geography is an emerging science using geography’s perspective and knowledge to study environmental issues. This chapter analyses the keywords of publications on 66 SCI/SSCI indexed mainstream journals and 3 CSCD core journals in environment
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Environmental Geography Shuying Leng, Chunye Lin, Yi Yang, Zhonglu Guo, Yuanming Zheng, Linsheng Yang, and Bengang Li
Abstract
Environmental geography is an emerging science using geography’s perspective and knowledge to study environmental issues. This chapter analyses the keywords of publications on 66 SCI/SSCI indexed mainstream journals and 3 CSCD core journals in environmental geography from 1986 to 2015. Environmental geography has focused on the source apportionment, surface processes, health effect and risk assessment of pollution, and established distinguishing characteristics in large scale distribution, long-term transportation and multiphase transformation of pollutants in the past 30 years. China’s environmental geography research has been following closely with international hot topics while complying with China’s real situation and has gained substantial achievements in many fields, such as soil pollution and remediation; the accumulation and biological effects of pollutants in water body; the mechanism, effects and simulation of air pollution, and the environmental behaviors and multi-phase transportation of organic pollutants. Since 2008 NSFC has set up environmental geography as a branch of geography, including environmental pollution, regional environmental quality and regional sustainable development in an effort to balance the development of environmental geography in both microscopic and macroscopic scales. Chinese researchers have contributed 18 % of the SCI/SSCI-indexed articles globally in the recent 5 years. In the past 10 years, 65 % of the SCI/SSCI-indexed articles and CSCD-indexed articles by Chinese authors have been sponsored by NSFC. Moreover, 56 and 68 % of the top 100 Chinese authors with the most publications in the SCI/SSCI and CSCD journals are supported by NSFC in the past 30 years, respectively. Keywords
Environmental geography Research topics in environmental geography NSFC-funded projects for environmental geography Chinese scholars and institutions of environmental geography No field is more central to the study of human occupation of the Earth than geography. Modern environmental science, with its focus on land use, pollution, and environmental impact is firmly rooted in the geographic tradition. In fact, without geography’s contributions, environmental science would not exist as we know it today (William and John 2005). To address an increasing number of environmental issues, geographers have established an emerging geographical sub-discipline—environmental geography. Environmental
geography examines environmental issues from a geographical point of view, using geographical knowledge and terms. Contributions made by geography to the environmental sciences include integrated approaches that account for space, dimension, and distribution, and the concept that landscapes arise from interactions between man and nature. Extensive research into increasingly complex environmental issues in environmental geography has led to a cross-disciplinary approach using research
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