Advances in Water Use Efficiency in Agriculture: A Bibliometric Analysis

Velasco-Muñoz, Juan F.; Aznar-Sánchez, José A.; Ureña, Luis Jesús Belmonte; López-Serrano, María J.

doi:10.3390/w10040377

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“…The time scale of the sample was established between 1988-2017. As non-original publications undergo a less rigorous peer-review process, are less available, and may present duplicate information, these were excluded from our sample [60]. The resulting final sample totaled 3577 articles and reviews.…”

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Mining Waste and Its Sustainable Management: Advances in Worldwide Research

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Growing social awareness of the need to adequately treat mining waste in order to protect the environment has led to an increase in the research in this field. The aim of this study was to analyze the dynamics of the research focused on mining waste and its sustainable management on a worldwide scale from 1988 to 2017. A systematic review and a bibliometric analysis of 3577 articles were completed. The results show that research into mining waste has increased, with studies focusing on waste management accounting for almost 40% of the total. The most productive journals in this field were Applied Geochemistry and Science of the Total Environment. The five most productive countries were the United States, Canada, Spain, Australia, and China. Works on the sustainable management of mining waste were in the minority, but it is an area of research that has considerable potential given the growing social awareness of the environmental repercussions of mining activities and the demands for increasingly sustainable practices. The findings of this study could prove useful for studies into mine waste, as they depict a global view of this line of research.

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Mining Waste and Its Sustainable Management: Advances in Worldwide Research

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“…This predicted increase in world food production implies an extension of farmed land or an intensification of the production on the land currently farmed [8]. In low production scenarios, an increase of 53% in the consumption of water resources would be required together with an increase of 38% of farmed land throughout the world in order to satisfy the food demand target in 2050 [9,10]. The main disadvantage of expanding agriculture is the availability of land, obliging the transformation of land uses, which translates into a loss of natural ecosystems [11].…”

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An Analysis of Global Research Trends on Greenhouse Technology: Towards a Sustainable Agriculture

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Greenhouse farming is an agricultural management system that has demonstrated its efficiency in intensifying food production. These systems constitute a feasible alternative for ensuring food supply, which is one of the greatest challenges faced by humankind in the twenty-first century. Technology has been able to meet the challenges related to greenhouse farming in both contributing to overcoming its limitations, correcting adverse impacts and ensuring system sustainability. The objective of this article is to analyse the global research trends in greenhouse technology over the last two decades, in order to identify the main driving agents, the most outstanding research lines and possible gaps in the literature. Different methodologies have been used for the analysis; both quantitative and qualitative. The principal results show that there are different relevant lines of research related to different aspects of greenhouse farming: the use of water for irrigation, the design of the optimum structure of the greenhouse, conserving the soil in the best growing conditions, energy consumption of the system as a whole, climate control within the facility and pest control. The research is characterized by the being composed largely of ad hoc studies, which hinders the international collaboration between researchers and institutions. The research approach has shifted from being focused on increasing production and cost savings to aspects related to resource conservation and sustainability.

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“…Water efficiency was first defined as the economic value of products produced per unit of water usage [16], which indicates how efficient the economic activity is with respect to its impact on the water environment. Following this definition, many researchers have measured the water efficiency in agriculture and economy-wide levels [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. For instance, Mo et al [18] used crop yields per unit water consumption to examine water use efficiency and its impact on agriculture in North China Plain.…”

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Re-Examining Regional Total-Factor Water Efficiency and Its Determinants in China: A Parametric Distance Function Approach

Zheng

Zhang

Xing

2018

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It is accepted that improving water efficiency is a key task for China in achieving water sustainability, as the knowledge of water efficiency and its determinants can provide critical information for water policy formulation. To this end, this paper presents a parametric frontier approach to analyze water efficiency performance and its influencing factors in one step. The proposed approach first introduces the Shephard water distance function to construct total-factor water efficiency (TFWE) index and then adopts the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) technique to compute the index and its determinants. A case study of regions in China from 2000 to 2015 is presented. The main findings are summarized as follows: (1) Both the overall China and most of the regions still have room for improvement in water efficiency. SFA and data envelopment analysis (DEA) might lead to different results in benchmarking water efficiency. Moreover, SFA has higher discriminating power than DEA in this regard. (2) There exists significant disparity of water efficiency among the regions of China, and the difference in TFWE takes on a U-shaped evolution trend, which first decreases in a fluctuation way and then increases monotonically. (3) Factors like industrial structure, import and export trade, environmental regulation and urbanization level have a positive impact on water efficiency, while resource endowment and economic level exhibit negative and nonlinear effects, respectively. Finally, several policy recommendations are made to improve water efficiency levels and promote water sustainability.

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Advances in Water Use Efficiency in Agriculture: A Bibliometric Analysis

Cited by 98 publications

References 46 publications

Mining Waste and Its Sustainable Management: Advances in Worldwide Research

Mining Waste and Its Sustainable Management: Advances in Worldwide Research

An Analysis of Global Research Trends on Greenhouse Technology: Towards a Sustainable Agriculture

Re-Examining Regional Total-Factor Water Efficiency and Its Determinants in China: A Parametric Distance Function Approach

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