Moving sociohydrology forward: a synthesis across studies
Sociohydrology is the study of coupled human–water systems, building on the premise that water and human systems co-evolve: the state of the water system feeds back onto the human system, and vice versa, a situation denoted as "two-way coupling". A recent special issue in HESS/ESD, "P...
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| description | Sociohydrology is the study of coupled human–water systems, building on the
premise that water and human systems co-evolve: the state of the water system
feeds back onto the human system, and vice versa, a situation denoted as
"two-way coupling". A recent special issue in HESS/ESD, "Predictions under
change: water, earth, and biota in the Anthropocene", includes a number of
sociohydrologic publications that allow for a survey of the current state of
understanding of sociohydrology and the dynamics and feedbacks that couple
water and human systems together, of the research methodologies being
employed to date, and of the normative and ethical issues raised by the study
of sociohydrologic systems. Although sociohydrology is concerned with coupled
human–water systems, the feedback may be filtered by a connection through
natural or social systems, for example, the health of a fishery or through
the global food trade, and therefore it may not always be possible to treat
the human–water system in isolation. As part of a larger complex system,
sociohydrology can draw on tools developed in the social–ecological and
complex systems literature to further our sociohydrologic knowledge, and this
is identified as a ripe area of future research. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f27dc0416e754c62a44b2d79f1f0a6782022-12-22T00:31:24ZengCopernicus PublicationsHydrology and Earth System Sciences1027-56061607-79382015-08-011983667367910.5194/hess-19-3667-2015Moving sociohydrology forward: a synthesis across studiesT. J. Troy0M. Konar1V. Srinivasan2S. Thompson3Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lehigh University, STEPS 9A, 1 W. Packer Ave, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USADepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2525 Hydrosystems Laboratory, 205 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, USAAshoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Royal Enclave Sriramapura, Jakkur Post, Bangalore 560 064, Karnataka, IndiaDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 661 Davis Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USASociohydrology is the study of coupled human–water systems, building on the premise that water and human systems co-evolve: the state of the water system feeds back onto the human system, and vice versa, a situation denoted as "two-way coupling". A recent special issue in HESS/ESD, "Predictions under change: water, earth, and biota in the Anthropocene", includes a number of sociohydrologic publications that allow for a survey of the current state of understanding of sociohydrology and the dynamics and feedbacks that couple water and human systems together, of the research methodologies being employed to date, and of the normative and ethical issues raised by the study of sociohydrologic systems. Although sociohydrology is concerned with coupled human–water systems, the feedback may be filtered by a connection through natural or social systems, for example, the health of a fishery or through the global food trade, and therefore it may not always be possible to treat the human–water system in isolation. As part of a larger complex system, sociohydrology can draw on tools developed in the social–ecological and complex systems literature to further our sociohydrologic knowledge, and this is identified as a ripe area of future research.http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/19/3667/2015/hess-19-3667-2015.pdf |
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