Data di Pubblicazione:
2022
Citazione:
Research on wine and climate change. A bibliometric analysis / D. Grazia, S. Corsi, C. Mazzocchi. ((Intervento presentato al convegno Wine Economics & Business Symposium tenutosi a Bordeaux : November 30 to December 1 nel 2022.
Abstract:
Grapevine and wine are probably two of the agricultural productions that are most dependent on geographical characteristics. Indeed, a distinctive factor taken into consideration when evaluating wines (especially high-quality ones), is the concept of terroir which, as stated by the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV), “includes specific soil, topography, climate, landscape characteristics and biodiversity features.” In particular, climate plays an important role regarding the timing of the grape ripening in the seasons, thus affecting the final wine produced in terms of acidity, sugars and aromas (van Leeuwen, 2010).
However, in the next decades, climate change (and rising temperatures) could alter favorable climatic conditions in many areas of the world, possibly affecting the timing of fruit ripening or even the possibility to grow grapevines. Some studies have shown how future higher temperatures could make it extremely difficult to maintain current quality levels in many European regions (Jones, White, Cooper, & Storchmann, 2005). Others have also reviewed the economic implications on the wine sector of rising temperatures, agreeing with previous studies that European producers will be the ones most affected (Ashenfelter & Storchmann, 2016).
Recently, Sacchelli et al. (2016) have provided a quantitative literature review about the adaptation strategies to climate change in the wine sector. Additionally, Alonso Ugaglia and Peres (2017) have also realized a literature review about the scientific recommendations and strategies for wine producers. Nevertheless, it appears that the literature review about the relationship between wine and climate change has still not been thoroughly explored. For this reason, this paper aims to use the instruments provided by bibliometrics to analyze the scientific literature on wine and climate change, in order to contribute in trying to fill a gap.
Methodology and data
As already mentioned, the method used in this paper is part of the so-called “bibliometric analysis”, which was mostly developed during the 1950s and 1960s by Garfield (1955) and de Solla Price (1965). When employing this methodology, bibliometric data (e.g., the number of publications in a year or that of citations of a work) are analyzed through a set of statistical methods, with the purpose of evaluating research on specific topics. The bibliometric analysis is mainly divided in two categories: performance analysis (which evaluates the impact of the bibliographic contributions of different factors such as researchers, countries, etc.) and science mapping (which focuses on showing relationships and networks between authors, institutions, research areas, etc.). For this work, science mapping will be realized through the co-citation analysis and bibliographic coupling. The bibliographical data used in this paper were exported from Clarivate’s Web of Science (WoS), using as keywords the terms “wine” and “climat* chang*” . The period considered is from 2007 to 2021 and only scientific articles are included. The final dataset consists of 1,040 publications.
Results and conclusion
From the data obtained, we found out that both the number of publications and the number of authors of papers regarding wine and climate change has increased between 2007 and 2021. We also used the data to analyze the geographic distribution of the research on these topics. Among the top 15 most productive countries by number of publications, Australia occupies the first position, contributing to nearly 16% of total researches found in the database; Spain and Italy are the second and third most productive countries. It is also interesting to notice that, among the top 15 most productive countries, 7 (that is, near
Tipologia IRIS:
14 - Intervento a convegno non pubblicato
Keywords:
climate change; wine; bibliometric analysis
Elenco autori:
D. Grazia, S. Corsi, C. Mazzocchi
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