Policy Design for Sustainable Development: A Bibliometric Study of Ecological Communications

Abstract

Ecological communication and sustainable development have become increasingly critical due to complex and urgent environmental challenges. This research aims to evaluate the development of ecological communication and sustainable development studies and consider adaptive policy plans based on available research documents. This research uses bibliometric analysis, whose data source comes from the Scopus database. Scopus is an academic database that collects various scientific publications. The selected documents were carried out in 2018-2022. The filtering results found 366 documents. The analysis tool used is Vosviewer. Vosviewer is a data analysis tool for visualizing and identifying patterns of relationships between keywords in large datasets such as those in the Scopus database. This study found several topics that could be followed up in policy formulation, especially topics currently becoming global trends, such as information and communication, economic and social impacts, conservation, and agriculture. Designing policies based on evolutionary ecology studies and sustainable development communications is critical in addressing environmental challenges and driving change toward a more sustainable society. The significance of these findings is crucial in the context of understanding and addressing global environmental challenges. This research has clear and significant implications for helping design more effective policies, driving further research, and encouraging cross-sector collaboration in addressing global environmental challenges.