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Sustainable Development and Environmental Management

Sustainable Development and Environmental Management is a research topic within Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Science Explorer counts 6.6k research works in it since 1962. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to sustainable development, environmental economics, and resource management. It includes discussions on climate change, social responsibility, economic appraisal of sustainable projects, renewable energy, and the concept of a green economy. The papers also delve into the philosophical and ethical aspects of sustainable development and its relationship with globalization.

  • Sustainable Development
  • Environmental Economics
  • Resource Management
  • Climate Change
  • Social Responsibility
  • Economic Appraisal
  • Renewable Energy
  • Globalization
  • Ecological Philosophy
  • Green Economy
Research works
6.6k
fractional, since 1962
In the world top 10%
645
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
84% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Sustainable Development and Environmental Management

Which countries lead Sustainable Development and Environmental Management research?

By volume, Poland and Russia publish the most (498 and 18 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 498 works
  2. 2 Russia 18 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 16 works
  4. 4 Romania 12 works
  5. 5 Czechia 11 works
  6. 6 United States 8 works
  7. 7 India 8 works
  8. 8 Slovakia 7 works
  9. 9 China 7 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 5 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Poland: 84.5%Russia: 3.1%Ukraine: 2.7%Romania: 2.1%6 others listed: 7.7%84%largest
Poland498 · 84.5%Russia18 · 3.1%Ukraine16 · 2.7%Romania12 · 2.1%6 others listed46 · 7.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Sustainable Development and Environmental Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Polish Academy of Sciences publishes the most Sustainable Development and Environmental Management research, followed by University of Łódź and University of Economics in Katowice.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 19 works
  2. 2 University of ŁódźPoland 19 works
  3. 3 University of Economics in KatowicePoland 16 works
  4. 4 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 16 works
  5. 5 University of GdańskPoland 16 works
  6. 6 Wroclaw University of Economics and BusinessPoland 15 works
  7. 7 Warsaw University of Life SciencesPoland 15 works
  8. 8 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 14 works
  9. 9 SGH Warsaw School of EconomicsPoland 14 works
  10. 10 University of WarsawPoland 14 works

What are the most cited papers in Sustainable Development and Environmental Management?

The most cited paper in Sustainable Development and Environmental Management is "Review of sewage sludge management: standards, regulations and analytical methods" (Bartłomiej Michał Cieślik, Jacek Namieśnik, Piotr Konieczka, 2014), with 572 citations. Next come "Life cycle assessment of energy from solid waste—part 1: general methodology and results" (397) and "Socio-ecological indicators for sustainability" (325).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Review of sewage sludge management: standards, regulations and analytical methods Bartłomiej Michał Cieślik, Jacek Namieśnik, Piotr Konieczka · Journal of Cleaner Production 18 Nov 2014 572
2 Life cycle assessment of energy from solid waste—part 1: general methodology and results Göran Finnveden, Jessica Johansson, Per Lind et al. · Journal of Cleaner Production 3 Apr 2004 397
3 Socio-ecological indicators for sustainability Christian Azar, John R. Holmberg, Kristian Lindgren · Ecological Economics Aug 1996 325
4 The Concept of Sustainable Development: Definition and Defining Principles Rachel Emas Open access 2015 276
5 Green Growth, Green Economy and Sustainable Development: Terminological and Relational Discourse Armand Kasztelan · Prague Economic Papers Open access 31 May 2017 244
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Sustainable Development and Environmental Management research done?

The largest centres of Sustainable Development and Environmental Management research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Krakow (Poland), Poznań (Poland) and Wrocław (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Wrocław, Katowice and Łódź.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 103 works
  2. 2 KrakowPoland 58 works
  3. 3 PoznańPoland 39 works
  4. 4 WrocławPoland 37 works
  5. 5 ŁódźPoland 28 works
  6. 6 KatowicePoland 27 works
  7. 7 LublinPoland 27 works
  8. 8 GdańskPoland 18 works
  9. 9 SzczecinPoland 14 works
  10. 10 RzeszówPoland 14 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WrocławPL · 37.3 works82×
  2. KatowicePL · 27.1 works81×
  3. ŁódźPL · 28.4 works70×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Sustainable Development and Environmental Management than the world average.

See Sustainable Development and Environmental Management on the map

Where is the best place to study Sustainable Development and Environmental Management?

Among universities, judged by research, AGH University of Krakow, University of Gdańsk and Silesian University of Technology score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 10.04%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →AGH University of Kr…Silesian University …Warsaw University of…University of Gdańsk
above the meannear itbelow it

One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1AGH University of KrakowPoland 53.522.5%43.5×9 -43.8%
2University of GdańskPoland 47.45.6%130.7×16 +39.5%
3Silesian University of TechnologyPoland 44.714.4%75.7×10 -43.9%
4Warsaw University of Life SciencesPoland 43.512.6%166.6×15 -45.1%
5University of ŁódźPoland 42.94.8%118.6×19 -14.1%
6Częstochowa University of TechnologyPoland 40.917.1%227.3×11 -59.1%
7Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 40.84.2%42.5×16 -9.1%
8University of WarsawPoland 38.87.9%48.1×14 -21.8%
9Wroclaw University of Economics and BusinessPoland 36.35.1%507.3×15 -47.4%
10SGH Warsaw School of EconomicsPoland 35.76.2%394.3×14 -8.0%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Sustainable Development and Environmental Management, country by country

Is Sustainable Development and Environmental Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2014.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Sustainable Development and Environmental Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0031% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Sustainable Development and Environmental Management0.0026% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Sustainable Development and Environmental Management over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Sustainable Development and Environmental Management9.9% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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