A PRODUÇÃO CIENTÍFICA SOBRE POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS DE RESÍDUOS SÓLIDOS E EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL: UMA ANÁLISE BIBLIOMÉTRICA

Abstract

The present work has the objective of accomplishing a synthesis of the scientific knowledge about the Public Policies of Solid Residues and Environmental Education. In order to investigate the scientific productions related to the bibliographic databases used to search for published documents. The databases were the ISI Web Of Science – Main Collection (Clarivate Analytics), henceforth called WoS, and SCOPUS (Elsevier), with data collected from both databases, however, the deeper analysis took place in the face of the Scopus database. In addition to the bibliographic references, the Google scholar/academic database was used, which provides several other publications associated with the same type of search string, however, this database was not the object of analysis in the scope of this study. Bibliometric parameters such as ranking, frequency and distribution were analyzed, having as objects of study documents, journals, articles, authors; and also scientometric aspects, such as analysis of set and correspondence between themes, fields of research and communication between authors. For data processing, EndNote 5 bibliography manager software, VosViewer software and Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editor were used. In the comparison of the databases object of this study, only the bibliometric views of comparison between the databases were analyzed, with regard to the raw data of the entire period, however, considering the intertemporal cut of the last 05 years, priority was given the analysis of the Scopus database. As a result, it was observed that, despite the large number of authors who published on the topic, it was possible to verify that there is cooperation for the co-authorship of many scientific articles. However, it was found that the correlations are relatively recent, highlighting the scientific production of the last five years, being well diversified in several countries of the world, reaching small groups that orbit the most outstanding. The countries that lead the ranking of publications are the United States of America, Brazil and Australia. Therefore, the data indicate that there are publications that deal with the subject in an apparently interconnected way regarding the correct treatment of Solid Waste. The co-occurrence of the main keywords, by indicating hot topics and trends, in addition to the themes of the periodicals used for most publications, point to the importance of preserving natural resources. The most cited articles and those with the highest number of links address topics, searched for by keywords, that indicate possible global relevance, and that have focused the attention of scientists, governments and stakeholders. Thus, it is inferred that there is an interrelationship in the scientific approaches to Environmental Education and Solid Waste Policies.

Keywords: Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Environmental Education, Public Policies, Solid Waste, Sustainability.