How to draw on foreign experiences and steadily promote the construction of ecological civilization in combination with China's local characteristics is an important topic of concern for the current Chinese environmental law community.The article uses Citespace software to conduct a knowledge graph analysis of 2833 literature indexed by SSCI since 2000,striving to comprehensively analyze the hot topics and latest developments in international environmental law research.Research has found that:(1)In recent years,the volume of international environmental law research literature has been increasing year by year,with developed countries such as the United States and the United States occupying a dominant position.Relevant research achievements in China are also gradually increasing,but high-level and influential literature is still rare.(2)Research hotspots mainly focus on multiple fields such as environmental policies and laws,international environmental agreements and global environmental protection,environmental factors and environmental protection behaviors,environmental rights and environmental justice,clean energy development and sustainable resource utilization.This indicates that under the guidance of the principles of sustainable development and the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind,various legal issues in the field of environmental protection have received widespread attention from countries around the world.(3)In the future,research on environmental law in China should comprehensively use methods such as normative analysis,quantitative analysis,and empirical analysis to continuously enrich research paradigms;Gradually broaden research horizons and expand the depth and breadth of environmental law research;At the same time,we will strengthen the exploration of fundamental theoretical issues such as environmental justice and environmental rights,and cultivate the theoretical foundation and local characteristics of China's environmental law research.
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