Dataset and Screening code for Reviewing Water Conflicts in a Changing Climate

<p>A scoping review was performed to quantify concepts covered in the scientific literature relating to water conflict in a changing climate. The uploaded files consists of:</p> <ul> <li>A list of all studies found using the search terms ("Included studies and categories")</li> <li>All meta categories and concept categories, with all search strings used, ("Included studies and categories") and&nbsp;</li> <li>The MATLAB code used to screen and remove irrelevant studies after the queries. ("Screening_review")</li> <li>An example Excel sheet on how to structure papers for screening using the MATLAB code. ("Example_screening")</li> </ul> <p>All searches were using Scopus and performed 9 Jan 2024. Search terms used were:</p> <ol> <li>(&ldquo;climate change&rdquo; OR &ldquo;global warming&rdquo; OR &ldquo;environmental change&rdquo;) AND (conflict OR dispute) AND (water OR hydrology)</li> <li>(conflict OR dispute) AND hydroclimat*</li> <li>(&ldquo;water conflict&rdquo; OR &ldquo;water dispute&rdquo;) AND (precipitation OR temperature OR drought)</li> <li>(conflict OR dispute) AND &ldquo;climate change&rdquo;</li> <li>hydropolitic*</li> <li>&ldquo;water conflict&rdquo; OR &ldquo;water dispute&rdquo;</li> </ol> <p>The final publication selection for the scoping review was made based on four criteria, all of which needed to be fulfilled for each selected study:<br>i) the study is considering water-related conflicts (conflicts directly or indirectly related to freshwater aspects, such as water scarcity or lack of access to water);&nbsp;<br>ii) the study considers the water-related conflict(s) in a climate change context (directly or indirectly related to climate change, including direct impact of climate change adaptation measures); <br>iii) the study addresses factors relating to a previous or ongoing act of conflict (violent or non-violent) and not just potential conflicts or conflict mitigation measures, for example for future water resource decline.&nbsp;<br>Relevance based on these criteria was first evaluated by reading the abstracts and the full text was examined only when further clarification on the relevance of a study was needed.</p> <p>For our analysis, we created categories that bring together several similar words around the same broader concepts. For example, the category &lsquo;governance&rsquo; includes the words policy, politic\w*, polici\w*, democra\w*, govern\w*, supreme court, minist\w*, and federal (for all concept categories, see the uploaded file). The different categories were further grouped together into category groups: political, livelihoods and industry, climate change, conflict, cooperation, and scale.</p> <p>Results will be found in the open-source article after publication and then the DOI and reference to that article will be added here.</p>