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=== Box 5.1 | Bibliometric Foundation of Demand-side Climate Change Mitigation ===

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A bibliometric overview of the literature found 99,065 academic peer-reviewed papers identified with 34 distinct search queries addressing relevant content of this chapter ( [[#Creutzig--2021a|Creutzig et al. 2021a]] ). The literature is growing rapidly (15% yr –1 ) and the literature body assessed in the AR6 period (2014–2020) is twice as large as all literature published before.

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'''Box 5.1, Figure 1 | Map of the literature on demand, services and socialaspects of climate change mitigation.''' Dots show document positions obtained by reducing the 60-dimensional topic scores to two dimensions aiming to preserve similarity in overall topic score. The two axes therefore have no direct interpretation but represent a reduced version of similarities between documents across 60 topics. Documents are coloured by query category. Topic labels of the 24 most relevant topics are placed in the centre of each of the large clusters of documents associated with each topic. % value in caption indicates the proportion of studies in each ‘relevance’ bracket. Source: reused with permission from Creutzig et al. ( 2021a).

A large part of the literature is highly repetitive and/or includes no concepts or little quantitative or qualitative data of relevance to this chapter. For example, a systematic review on economic growth and decoupling identified more than 11,500 papers treating this topic, but only 834 of those, that is, 7%, included relevant data ( [[#Wiedenhofer--2020|Wiedenhofer et al. 2020]] ). In another systematic review, assessing quantitative estimates of consumption-based solutions ( [[#Ivanova--2020|Ivanova et al. 2020]] ), only 0.8% of papers were considered after consistency criteria were enforced. Altogether, we relied on systematic reviews wherever possible. Other important papers were not captured by systematic reviews but are included in this chapter through expert judgement. Based on topical modelling and relevance coding of resulting topics, the full literature body can be mapped into two dimensions, where spatial relationships indicate topical distance (Box 5.1, Figure 1). The interpretation of topics demonstrates that the literature organises in four clusters of high relevance for demand-side solutions (housing, mobility, food, and policy), whereas other clusters (nature, energy supply) are relatively less relevant.

[[#5.2|Section 5.2]] provides evidence on the links among mitigation and well-being, services, equity, trust, and governance. [[#5.3|Section 5.3]] quantifies the demand-side opportunity space for mitigation, relying on the Avoid-Shift-Improve framework. [[#5.4|Section 5.4]] assesses the relevant contribution of different parts of society to climate change mitigation. [[#5.5|Section 5.5]] evaluates the overall dynamics of social transition processes while [[#5.6|Section 5.6]] summarises insights on governance and policy packages for demand-side mitigation and well-being. A Social Science Primer ( [https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/chapter/chapter-5 Chapter 5] Supplementary Material I) defines and discusses key terms and social science concepts used in the context of climate change mitigation.

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