Development and Path of Reclaimed Water Utilization Policy in China: Visual Analysis Based on CNKI and WOS

Junjie Li; Xin Dai; Bei Zhang; Xuehang Sun; Bangfan Liu

doi:10.3390/ijerph191911866

Development and Path of Reclaimed Water Utilization Policy in China: Visual Analysis Based on CNKI and WOS

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Sep 20;19(19):11866. doi: 10.3390/ijerph191911866.

Authors

Junjie Li^{1

2}, Xin Dai^{2

3}, Bei Zhang^{2

4}, Xuehang Sun^{1

2}, Bangfan Liu^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ School of Public Administration, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China.
² Hebei Public Policy Evaluation and Research Center, Qinhuangdao 066004, China.
³ Institute of Marxism, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 300712, China.
⁴ Institute of Marxism, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China.

Abstract

In this paper, CiteSpace and NVivo software were used for the knowledge graph visualization and content analysis of highly cited papers in the research literature on reclaimed water utilization policy in CNKI and WOS. The results showed the following: there was an upward trend in the number of papers on reclaimed water policy, papers in both databases attached great importance to research on this topic, and the research prospects for this topic are broad. The UK, Greece, Italy, the United States, and France have great influence in the field of reclaimed water utilization policy research. The international influence of China's research on the topic needs to be improved. There is a lack of communication and cooperation among the subjects of reclaimed water utilization policy research, and a cooperative network with close and benign interactions has not yet been formed. The research hotspots of the topic in China are mainly focused on regional governance, with insufficient attention paid to policy and management, while foreign countries pay more attention to policy and management. Behavior guidance policy and black and smelly water will become research hotspots for domestic policies, while public perception, demand, drinking water, and carbon will become research hotspots for international policies. Domestic research on reclaimed water use policy in highly cited papers focused on water environment and ecological security management, while international research focused on the background of reclaimed water use policy and its implementation, with the main intention of optimizing the ascension path and making international research policies thematically stronger. The attitudes of domestic and foreign researchers regarding reclaimed water utilization policies are mainly rational and emotional, indicating that current policies have a degree of applicability. However, there are also obvious problems that will need to be addressed and improved, and there are substantial development prospects. In the future, research on reclaimed water utilization policies in China should strengthen top-level design, improve the policy system, and increase the supervision of policies to achieve optimization.

Keywords: policy; reclaimed water; visual analysis; water resources.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Carbon
China
Drinking Water*
Humans
Public Policy
United States
Water Supply

Substances

Drinking Water
Carbon

Grants and funding

This research was funded by the Hebei Social Science Foundation project “Research on the implementation of policies to curb agricultural land conversion in the development of new agriculture in Hebei Province” (grant no. HB19Gl015) and a major research project of the Hebei Provincial Department of Education Science and Humanities and Social Sciences, “Research on the promotion path of industrial chain of Hebei coastal counties (districts and cities) from the perspective of coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei” (grant no. ZD202104).