The place of literature review in environmental management research

Abstract

Environment management is a multifaced field that encompasses a wide range of issues, from pollution control to sustainability. To effectively manage the environment, a comprehensive understanding of relevant scientific literature is essential for researchers and professionals to explore, assess and consolidate the existing information related to the subject; without which researchers may end of repeating same studies over and over again. Literature review serves as a foundational tool for achieving this goal. It helps to gain a thorough understanding of the current state of knowledge and build on previous research to advance scientific understanding in environmental management. This paper, reviewed many articles from reliable secondary data and explore the importance of literature review in Environmental Management research. The result discusses several applications of types of literature review in Environmental management, the purpose and qualities of literature review in Environmental Management, and the steps in outlining and drafting literature review including selecting appropriate sources, evaluating the quality of the sources, synthesizing the information. The study further explores ways of finding research gap and some important online assisted tools such as Mendeley, Zotero, Scite, PaperPal and Litmap among others.