Abstract:

With the aggravation of the ecological and environmental problems faced by humanity,the ecological compensation has become a hot topic of widespread concerns amongst domestic and foreign scholars.In order to understand the advances of ecological compensation,we carries out statistical analysis about the time of its publication based on 929 documents from Web of Science and the Chinese Social Science Citation Index (CSSCI) database on the subject of ecology compensation in the time period of 1998-2011,and analyzes cocitation of literary documents and keyword cooccurrence using the CiteSpace II software.Meanwhile,the key scholarly documents are listed,and research topics of ecocompensation are briefly concluded using knowledge mapping visual tool.We found the number of ecological compensation paper presented the trend of fluctuation growth from 1998 to 2011.Research on ecocompensation of carbon sinks and REDD in the context of global climate change,ecocompensation zones and evaluation on the implementation of ecological compensation,strengthening the ecological compensation standards of the wetlands,nature reserves,watersheds and other ecosystem,application of computer management software (such as GIS,SWAT,InVEST) would become the focus issues in the future research on ecocompensation.Our results also showed that the domestic scholars had made great progress in the theory of ecocompensation,and the practice researches in forests,watersheds,nature reserves and other areas were strengthened in recent years.