A BIBLIOGRAPHIC STUDY ON THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION

Abstract

Sustainability refers to the ability of people to protect the environment while meeting their own needs and to transfer natural resources to the next generations in order to meet their needs (Collin, 2004: 265). As in the sentence referring to the Americans: "We did not inherit the world from our ancestors, we entrusted it to our children" is very important to explain the seriousness of responsibility (Worldwatch Institute, 2014: 6). ). An important aspect of the sustainability issue facing today is sustainable consumption. Sustainable consumption expresses a thought that covers the needs of people, justice, quality of life, and the health of consumers (Mont and Plepys, 2008: 532). In this study, it is aimed to examine the studies on sustainable consumption in the last five years within the framework of bibliometric analysis. For this purpose, first of all, a literature study was conducted and important information about the subject in the literature was presented. When it comes to the analysis part after the literature review, firstly, data were obtained by scanning the studies on the subject between 2017-2022 (January and February 2022) from the Scopus database. The obtained data were analyzed with the R program (Biblioshiny). A total of 1341 data were obtained from the Scopus database. According to the information obtained as a result of the analysis of these data; A general briefing was given on the characteristics of the studies on sustainable consumption.