JWACA2025-012: Research Status and Development Trends of Urban Ecological Resilience Based on CiteSpace

Abstract

Urban resilience, as a core issue in addressing climate change, natural disasters, and urbanization risks, has become a key research direction in urban planning, ecological security, and public management in recent years. With the frequent occurrence of extreme events worldwide, how to enhance the resilience, adaptation, and recovery capabilities of urban systems through theoretical innovation and practical exploration has become a hot topic of concern for both academia and policy circles. This study takes domestic and foreign literature on urban resilience as the object, systematically sorts out the research context and knowledge evolution in this field, aiming to reveal its development trend and provide theoretical support for subsequent research. At the level of literature review, foreign research has formed a relatively complete theoretical system and made significant progress in resilience assessment models, multi-scale coupling mechanisms, and digital technology applications. Although domestic research started relatively late, it has shown clear policy orientation and intensive case studies, focusing on localized issues such as resilient urban planning standards and public safety resilience improvement. It has also accumulated rich results in empirical research in urban agglomerations such as the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta. This article is based on CiteSpace software to conduct scientific graph analysis of literature in Web of Science (WOS) and CNKI databases. Through the visualization of annual publication trends, keyword co-occurrence clustering, author collaboration networks, and institutional distribution characteristics, the evolution laws of disciplines and the migration of research hotspots are revealed.