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- Title
Socio-hydrology: Use-inspired water sustainability science for the Anthropocene.
- Authors
Sivapalan, M.; Konar, M.; Srinivasan, V.; Chhatre, A.; Wutich, A.; Scott, C. A.; Wescoat, J. L.; Rodríguez‐Iturbe, I.
- Abstract
Water is at the core of the most difficult sustainability challenges facing humans in the modern era, involving feedbacks across multiple scales, sectors, and agents. We suggest that a transformative new discipline is necessary to address many and varied water-related challenges in the Anthropocene. Specifically, we propose socio-hydrology as a use-inspired scientific discipline to focus on understanding, interpretation, and scenario development of the flows and stocks in the human-modified water cycle across time and space scales. A key aspect of socio-hydrology is explicit inclusion of two-way feedbacks between human and water systems, which differentiates socio-hydrology from other inter-disciplinary disciplines dealing with water. We illustrate the potential of socio-hydrology through three examples of water sustainability problems, defined as paradoxes, which can only be fully resolved within a new socio-hydrologic framework that encompasses such two-way coupling between human and water systems.
- Subjects
SUSTAINABILITY; WATER supply; HYDROLOGY; WATER security; WATER use; WATER conservation
- Publication
Earth's Future, 2014, Vol 2, Issue 4, p225
- ISSN
2328-4277
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/2013EF000164