| 英文摘要 |
Countries worldwide are witnessing the process of massive rural hollowing, which is being caused by increased rural-to-urban outflow, urbanization, agricultural industrialization, expansion of commercial agriculture, and population aging. The Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) programme recognizes and aims to conserve unique traditional agricultural systems and landscapes that have been created through human-nature interactions. GIAHS considers these agricultural systems as‘living’heritage systems. The goal of this article is to systematically assess the academic literature, by employing bibliometric and thematic analysis methods, on whether GIAHS can be a driver of rural revitalization and we assess the sustainability impacts of the programme. Using the SCOPUS database, we identified a total of 121 GIAHS-related articles for the general bibliometric analysis. Next, for the thematic analysis, 32 studies which document impacts of GIAHS were identified. At best, the sustainability impacts of GIAHS were mixed, and we only found two studies which explicitly linked GIAHS to rural revitalization. In this article, we argue for more systematic assessment methods and indicators that link GIAHS to rural revitalization strategies and processes, and a better synergy between knowledge presented in the grey literature and academic research. Conclusively, GIAHS has a strong potential to be a driver of rural revitalization, but knowledge gaps in the academic literature on this emerging theme still persist. |