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ABSTRACT
Climate change is a key issue in twenty-first century international politics, as is evidenced by the twenty-four world conferences devoted to the subject that have been called by the United Nations. The effect that climate change exerts on human migration is a matter that has recently started to acquire considerable importance, not only as an element of public opinion, but also as a subject of academic publications. While available data on the matter is still far from precise and there are no definite figures on the climate change refugees numbers, published research shows that a colossal wave of migration could come about, caused by climate environmental conditions. In the view of the ever-growing importance of the connection between migration, climate and environmental change, the international scientific community has experienced a rapid growth of interest in these matters over the last ten years. The present contribution sets out to present, by means of a bibliometric analysis of scientific publications, a critical ‘snapshot’ of the development of the research that has been undertaken, paying particular attention to the integration of semantic elements that climatic and environmental change have in common with the issue of migration.
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Notes on contributors
Mara Maretti is an Associate Professor at the University of Chieti-Pescara, where she teaches Methodology of Social Research and Social Policies. She is Coordinator for the Computational Social Research Laboratory of the Department of Law and Social Sciences. She has authored and edited several books and papers on the subjects of Sustainability, the Environment, and Energy Issues.
Alice Tontodimamma is a Ph.D. student in Business and Behavioural Science. She is working within the Computational Social Research (CSR) Lab of the Department of Law and Social Sciences at the University of Chieti-Pescara. Her research interests are Probabilistic Topic Models and Sentiment Analysis.
Philipp Biermann is a Post-Doc Researcher at the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, where he teaches Methodology of Social Research. He holds a PhD in Economics from Carl-von-Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. He has authored several papers on the subjects of Behavioral Economics, Environmental Economics and Energy Issues.
ORCID
Mara Maretti http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6888-0724
Notes
1. Case study is a research methodology based on an holistic approach for the study of real events. Particularly fitting the comprehension of phenomena it allows to observe the mechanism, the processes and, more generally the dynamic aspects of a research object. A specific area or a country can be considered as the object of study analyzed on the basis of empirical material (interviews, participatory observation, secondary literature in the case of historical analogue, secondary data, questionnaires, etc.) (Yin, Citation2003).
2. When a study selects more than a single case, it’s a multiple-case study. A multiple or collective case study consents to analyse several cases to understand the similarities and differences between the research objects (Baxter & Jack, Citation2008).
3. A country collaboration network is a network where nodes are authors’ countries and links are co-authorships (Aria & Cuccurullo, Citation2017).