Low-Carbon Education: Insights and Trends for Sustainable Development Through Knowledge Graphs

Sustainability is an inherent requirement of scientific development, and low-carbon development is the key to sustainability. Low-carbon education (LCE) can spread environmental concepts and provide talent support for sustainable development. However, there is still an obvious gap in systematic rese...

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Published inSustainability Vol. 17; no. 5; p. 1933
Main Authors Jin, Yuran, Liu, Jiahui
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.03.2025
Subjects
Bibliometrics
Carbon
College students
Colleges & universities
Economic development
Education
Educational aspects
Environmental education
Environmental impact
Environmental protection
Graphic methods
Interdisciplinary aspects
Keywords
Knowledge representation
Methods
Research methodology
Scientometrics
Social change
Software
Sustainable development
Trends
China
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Summary:Sustainability is an inherent requirement of scientific development, and low-carbon development is the key to sustainability. Low-carbon education (LCE) can spread environmental concepts and provide talent support for sustainable development. However, there is still an obvious gap in systematic research on LCE, let alone in visual research. From the perspective of scientometrics, 189 papers on LCE from 2015 to 2024 were systematically analyzed. Software such as Gephi 0.10.1, VOSviewer 1.6.20, and CiteSpace 6.3.3 was used to visually analyze the references and keywords of the collected literature, identifying research hotspots and emerging trends in LCE. The results show that educational subjects, educational methods, educational courses, and educational evaluation are hot topics in the field of LCE. Explosive themes such as “sustainable power generation”, “education facilities”, “higher education expansion”, and “artificial intelligence of things” are emerging trends in LCE. The overall evolution trend in LCE after 2015 can be divided into two stages: an explosive stage (2015–2020) and an emerging stage (2020–2024). University LCE, social LCE, and behavioral LCE are the main research directions of LCE. Through the visual analysis of the LCE literature, the research hotspots and emerging trends in LCE can be more intuitively and comprehensively understood, providing a valuable reference for subsequent research.
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ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su17051933