New paradigm in the economic literature on global warming.
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SUBMITTER: Cuerdo-Mir M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10336829 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul
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New paradigm in the economic literature on global warming.
Cuerdo-Mir Miguel M Ibar-Alonso Raquel R
Heliyon 20230705 7
This study examines how international agreements (especially the 1992 Rio Summit, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, and the 2015 Paris Agreement) on climate change have fueled rampant economic literature worldwide. However, it has not been systematically classified or distinguished from the more traditional studies in this field. Hence, we use a scientometric analysis using four different approaches: natural language processing (NLP), citation analysis, co-citation network analysis, and content analysis. ...[more]
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