Petrović, E.K.; Thomas, C.A. Global Patterns in Construction and Demolition Waste (C&DW) Research: A Bibliometric Analysis Using VOSviewer. Sustainability2024, 16, 1561.
Petrović, E.K.; Thomas, C.A. Global Patterns in Construction and Demolition Waste (C&DW) Research: A Bibliometric Analysis Using VOSviewer. Sustainability 2024, 16, 1561.
Petrović, E.K.; Thomas, C.A. Global Patterns in Construction and Demolition Waste (C&DW) Research: A Bibliometric Analysis Using VOSviewer. Sustainability2024, 16, 1561.
Petrović, E.K.; Thomas, C.A. Global Patterns in Construction and Demolition Waste (C&DW) Research: A Bibliometric Analysis Using VOSviewer. Sustainability 2024, 16, 1561.
Abstract
Recent years have experienced an increase in construction and demolition waste (C&DW), which is the most significant solid waste stream. C&DW is contributing to exceeding all planetary boundaries and presents a range of other issues. In order to better understand the existing research on C&DW, a global bibliographic analysis was undertaken through seven groups of keyword searches and the results visualised using VOCviewer. The results show that C&DW receives only a modest research attention compared to other areas of waste, and this is despite an exponential increase in C&DW research since 2016. The analyses also show that concrete is the most researched material in terms of C&DW, and that reuse, recycling, and circular economy are so far attracting only proportionally modest research attention. This signals a need for further acceleration of the C&DW research, and specifically for more research on reuse, recycling, and circular economy for materials other than concrete.
Keywords
construction and demolition waste; construction waste; demolition waste; bibliometric analysis; VOSviewer; global C&DW trends; planetary boundaries
Subject
Arts and Humanities, Architecture
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