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<p>The rapid growth of electronic waste (e-waste) has emerged as a critical environmental governance challenge with increasing implications for climate change mitigation and sustainability transitions. Despite growing policy attention toward circular economy strategies and climate-responsive resource management, research linking e-waste governance and climate action remains fragmented and unevenly developed. This study systematically examines global research trends, thematic structures, institutional collaboration, and policy integration within the e-waste–climate nexus through a bibliometric analysis of Scopus-indexed literature published between 2000 and 2025. Following the PRISMA 2020 protocol, 186 peer-reviewed articles were analyzed using Bibliometrix and VOSviewer to assess publication trends, keyword co-occurrence, citation structures, and international collaboration networks. The findings reveal a substantial increase in scholarly output after 2015, reflecting growing attention toward sustainability transitions, circular economy practices, extended producer responsibility, recycling systems, and emissions-related concerns. However, explicit integration of climate mitigation objectives, particularly greenhouse gas accounting and carbon-footprint assessment, remains comparatively limited within e-waste governance research. The analysis further highlights significant geographic and institutional inequalities in global research production, with limited representation from regions most affected by informal e-waste processing and environmental vulnerability. Beyond descriptive mapping, the study advances an integrated governance framework linking knowledge production, institutional capacity, collaborative innovation systems, and polcy integration to explain fragmentation within the evolving e-waste–climate nexus. The study contributes to sustainability governance scholarship by providing a structured analytical basis for identifying governance gaps and supporting more coherent, interdisciplinary, and climate-responsive e-waste policy strategies.</p>

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E-waste and climate change: A global bibliometric analysis of research trends and policy integration

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    2026年7月1日

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  • Christopher N. Mdoe,
  • Theodori S. Bakari,
  • Edwin E. Ngowi

摘要

The rapid growth of electronic waste (e-waste) has emerged as a critical environmental governance challenge with increasing implications for climate change mitigation and sustainability transitions. Despite growing policy attention toward circular economy strategies and climate-responsive resource management, research linking e-waste governance and climate action remains fragmented and unevenly developed. This study systematically examines global research trends, thematic structures, institutional collaboration, and policy integration within the e-waste–climate nexus through a bibliometric analysis of Scopus-indexed literature published between 2000 and 2025. Following the PRISMA 2020 protocol, 186 peer-reviewed articles were analyzed using Bibliometrix and VOSviewer to assess publication trends, keyword co-occurrence, citation structures, and international collaboration networks. The findings reveal a substantial increase in scholarly output after 2015, reflecting growing attention toward sustainability transitions, circular economy practices, extended producer responsibility, recycling systems, and emissions-related concerns. However, explicit integration of climate mitigation objectives, particularly greenhouse gas accounting and carbon-footprint assessment, remains comparatively limited within e-waste governance research. The analysis further highlights significant geographic and institutional inequalities in global research production, with limited representation from regions most affected by informal e-waste processing and environmental vulnerability. Beyond descriptive mapping, the study advances an integrated governance framework linking knowledge production, institutional capacity, collaborative innovation systems, and polcy integration to explain fragmentation within the evolving e-waste–climate nexus. The study contributes to sustainability governance scholarship by providing a structured analytical basis for identifying governance gaps and supporting more coherent, interdisciplinary, and climate-responsive e-waste policy strategies.