Main Themes and Bibliometric Analysis of Conflict and Climate Change Studies

Abstract

Climate change, thought to cause significant problems if necessary precautions are not taken, causes droughts and natural disasters to occur frequently and severely. The primary resources required for life, such as water, soil, and food, will decrease in such a situation. It is thought that experiencing tensions dependent on resource scarcity will trigger internal and external conflicts, especially in underdeveloped countries with weak central governments and low income levels. On the other hand, because wars cause the use of large amounts of fossil fuels and firearms, they destroy forests and natural resources and increase carbon dioxide emissions, which are considered the most crucial cause of the climate crisis. In other words, while climate changes trigger wars, unfortunately, wars also increase the climate crisis. Especially when war reaches an existential dimension for countries, the risk of non-compliance with these agreements increases even in states that reshape their energy policies with significant investments to prevent climate change. In this study, we examined the Web of Science (Wos) literature on the relationship between climate change, which is seen as a significant threat to our future, and wars through its main themes and bibliometric indicators. In this study, we examined the Web of Science (Wos) literature on the relationship between climate change, which is seen as a significant threat to our future, and wars through its main themes and bibliometric indicators. Looking at the time series, interest in conflict and climate change studies has increased, and most studies have been done mainly in the field of "environmental sciences and ecology". Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) Topic Modeling was applied to the abstracts downloaded in this study to find the main topics of conflict and climate change studies. So, the main topics were food, politics, migration, carbon emissions, and animals.