Analysis on the Development Situation of Domestic and International Marine Spatial Planning Research Based on the CiteSpace

Abstract

Marine Spatial Planning is a process of planning and management for the sustainable development and utilization of marine resources. Based on the core collection of WOS and CNKI databases, the visualization tool CiteSpace was used to systematically summarize and analyze the domestic and foreign research topics and the evolution paths of their high lights in the field of Marine Spatial Planning from 2000 to 2020. The results showed that the number of relevant studies both in China and abroad was generally on the rise, with the United States, Australia and England accounting for more than 50%, with a high level in inter-institutional cooperation and transnational exchanges. Internationally, habitats, marine conservation areas, fishery development and biodiversity were the key research directions, while domestic studies payed more attention to the land-sea coordination and sustainable development. In the past two decades, the international research focus has experienced the periods of "the construction of spatial planning system -the expanded distribution of spatial planning pattern-experience summary and environmental protection", while the domestic planning has followed the steps of "the comprehensive management period of spatial planning policy-the specific functional zone division period-the sustainable development period". On this basis, some key areas for further exploration and some suggestions were put forward.

Keywords

• marine spatial planning
• bibliometrics
• citespace
• space resource management
• co-citation analysis