Research progress, hot spots and trends of post-mining landscape reuse in China from the perspective of “production-living-ecological” spaces

The reuse of post-mining landscapes is a crucial component in promoting high-quality development in resource-based regions and is an inevitable requirement for achieving ecological civilization in the new era. This paper using CiteSpace bibliometric analysis, focuses on the knowledge framework of “post-mining landscapes reuse”. It sifts through 442 relevant research papers from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI) database over the past 30 years, examining aspects like research time, authors and publishing institutions, hot topics, and emerging trends. Grounded in the perspective of the “production-living-ecological” spaces, the research categorizes and summarizes the literature. The results show that the strong domestic attention to post-mining landscapes reuse, increasing connections among research directions, maturing network systems among research institutions, and stable development. Within the “production-living-ecological” spaces perspective, interdisciplinary research is deepening, focusing on land reclamation in production space, ecological park construction, and the development of alternative industries; inefficient land development in living space, and a shift in industries; mainstream studies in ecological space, such as ecological restoration and wetland park construction. Subsequent research on post-mining landscapes reuse is shifting towards reevaluating resource value, the integrated development of urban and rural areas in resource-based regions, and the construction of regional ecological security patterns under the integration of the “production-living-ecological” spaces. This study serves as a reference for the coordinated development of post-mining landscapes reuse with societal, economic, and ecological aspects.