Environmental strategic planning and sustainability indicators: bibliometric study from 2009 to 2021 in the academic production

Abstract

With the challenge of making sustainable development increasingly broad, studies that can spread the understanding of environmental management aimed at strategic environmental planning are necessary. With this, performing a sustainability management by means of indicators will have repercussions in raising the environmental quality and socioeconomic parameters of companies and institutions. Objective: to provide a review and analysis of the knowledge related to environmental strategic planning through sustainable indicators in the scientific academic production. This is a descriptive exploratory research, with review of articles on the ScienceDirect platform through the systematization of steps, seeking to identify the indicators of sustainability and environmental strategic planning through scientific productions. Next, bibliometrics was performed, employing a qualitative-quantitative approach, seeking the evaluation of scientific productions in the period from 2010 to 2021. An increase in scientific production was evaluated, especially in the years from 2016 to 2018, evidencing the thematic axis addressed in the research, presenting a growth trend in the numbers of articles over the 10-year period. The European continent had represented 62.8% of the published scientific research focused on sustainability indicators and environmental strategic planning. Another relevant factor was related to the analyzed classes that showed how intensely the vocabularies are similar among the data treatments. In view of the results, the studies on environmental strategic planning, which must be analyzed and studied for a better understanding of the processes, seek to help and guide the decision making process when directed towards sustainable issues.

Keywords: Environmental strategy; Environmental Management; Operational; Sustainable Practices.