Wu Shuanglei, Wei Yongping, Wei Jing, Xiong Yonglan, Huang Sarina, Werdiningtyas Ratri, Genova Paulina, Hong Paul, Gan Lin, Song Chendi
School of Public Policy and Management, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, China.
School of the Environment, the University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia.
Sci Data. 2025 Sep 1;12(1):1528. doi: 10.1038/s41597-025-05885-x.
Value, technology, and policy are three interactive societal factors affecting the willingness, capacity, and formal rules of human interactions with water. Existing human-water models generally neglect the dynamic and accumulated processes of these factors, failing to explain the societal causes of changes in water practices. Here we developed nine process-based quantitative datasets of Value-Technology-Policy regarding water. They contain 17,003 newspaper articles and 801 public submissions to reflect different water values, 1337 ancient technologies and 40,303 patents for water technologies, and 720 water policy documents at various spatial (national, regional, state, and river basin) and temporal (decades to hundreds of years) scales. A consistent, 4-step content analysis approach was adopted to identify, collect and manually code five key elements (processes) of value, technology and policy: the time ("when"), location ("where"), actor ("who"), theme ("what"), and perspective/tone ("what effects"). Inter-coder reliability tests were conducted to ensure the consistency and validity of the data. These datasets will contribute to more process-oriented understanding of societal factors for improved human-water system modelling in the Anthropocene.
价值观、技术和政策是影响人类与水互动的意愿、能力及正式规则的三个相互作用的社会因素。现有的人类-水模型通常忽视了这些因素的动态和累积过程，无法解释水实践变化的社会原因。在此，我们开发了九个基于过程的关于水的价值-技术-政策定量数据集。它们包含17003篇报纸文章和801份公众意见书，以反映不同的水价值观；1337项古代技术和40303项水技术专利；以及720份不同空间（国家、地区、州和流域）和时间（数十年至数百年）尺度的水政策文件。我们采用了一种连贯的四步内容分析方法，来识别、收集并手动编码价值、技术和政策的五个关键要素（过程）：时间（“何时”）、地点（“何地”）、行为者（“何人”）、主题（“何事”）以及视角/语气（“有何影响”）。进行了编码员间信度测试，以确保数据的一致性和有效性。这些数据集将有助于更注重过程地理解社会因素，以改进人类世中的人类-水系统建模。
