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Bibliometric Review of Sustainable Consumption: a Historical Look at Global Scientific Production

Alejandro Alzate Buitrago | Bio
Universidad Libre seccional Pereira
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As well defined by the SDG, sustainable consumption and production consist of doing more and better with less to minimize environmental degradation without detriment to people’s quality of life. The purpose of this article is to advance the mapping of global scientific production around sustainable consumption, and in this way, to identify theoretical-conceptual advances, research trends, achievements, proposals, and dynamics of scientific production over time. To do this, we consulted the thematic information published in the Web of Science database, using the search equation “Sustainable Consumption” by title and during the period 1997-2020. The bibliometric analysis was carried out using open source tools such as R-Studio and Bibliometrix, which identified annual scientific production, the most widely recognized authors and sources, and the most cited articles. The VOS viewer software was used to view data on the network. The theoretical aspects of most significant value account for the transit and challenges in which modern societies are, as a whole, making sustainable consumption a daily practice. In this sense, modern trends in adopting self-restrictive behaviors and consumption habits, the second life of products, voluntary simplifiers, changes in production modes, energy efficiency, and sustainable food consumption stand out. The emerging paradigm of sustainable consumption privileges the role of industrial ecology, circular economy, and collaborative economies as mediators of producer-consumer-environment relations and as a last alternative, it suggests economic decline as the only formula towards sustainable consumption and development.

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Alzate Buitrago, A. (2021). Bibliometric Review of Sustainable Consumption: a Historical Look at Global Scientific Production. Semestre Económico, 24(56), 355-379. https://doi.org/10.22395/seec.v24n56a15

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