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Developing socio-hydrology: Research progress, opportunities and challenges
Xia Jun, PhD and Professor, specialized in hydrology and water resource research. E-mail: xiaj@igsnrr.ac.cn |
Received date: 2021-07-15
Accepted date: 2022-02-14
Online published: 2022-11-25
Supported by
National Nature Science Foundation of China(41890824)
National Nature Science Foundation of China(42101043)
Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA23040304)
The development of industrialization and urbanization has intensified the coupling of human activities and hydrological processes and promoted the emergence of socio-hydrology. This paper addresses the issue of socio-hydrology due to new development and social demand for hydrological sciences and sustainable development. Four key scientific issues are identified through systematic analysis and summary of the relative research and international progress, i.e., (1) the long-term dynamic process of socio-hydrological system evolution; (2) quantitative description and driving mechanism analysis of socio-hydrological coupling system; (3) prediction of the trajectories of socio-hydrological system co-evolution, and (4) integrated water resource management from the perspective of water systems. Moreover, opportunities and challenges for developing socio-hydrology are emphasized, including (1) strengthening the research of interdisciplinary theoretical systems; (2) improving and broadening socio-hydrological research technical methods, and (3) supporting integrated water resources management (IWRM) for sustainable utilization goals (SDGs). The review is expected to provide a reference for the future development of socio-hydrology discipline.
Key words: socio-hydrology; opportunities and challenges; interdiscipline; IWRM; SDGs
XIA Jun , DONG Yi , ZOU Lei . Developing socio-hydrology: Research progress, opportunities and challenges[J]. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2022 , 32(11) : 2131 -2146 . DOI: 10.1007/s11442-022-2040-3
Figure 1 The development process of socio-hydrology |
Figure 2 Keyword co-occurrence map of publications in the socio-hydrological field |
Table 1 Representative studies of socio-hydrology in the past ten years |
Category | Reference | Research object | Approach | Region |
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Reconstruction and interpretation of the historical evolution of socio-hydrological systems | Lu et al. (2015) | Human-water relationship | Top-down method based on Budyko assumption | Heihe river basin, China |
Xiong et al. (2016) | Water issues | Content analysis | China | |
Wei et al. (2015) | Water issues | Content analysis | Australia | |
Xiong et al. (2014) | Water issues | Mapping knowledge domain | China | |
Zhao et al. (2014) | Water resources management | Historical analysis | China | |
Simulation of the human-water mutual feedback process and the exploration of the regular pattern | Elshafei et al. (2014) | Socio-hydrology system | SD | Murray-Darling Basin (MDB), Australia |
Aghaie et al. (2020) | Ground water supply | ABM | Rafsanjan, Iran | |
Fabre et al. (2015) | Supply-demand dynamics | Component modelling | Herault catchment, France, and Ebro catchment, Spain | |
Srinivasan et al. (2015) | Water supply and demand | Multiple-hypothesis model | Chennai, India | |
van Dam et al. (2013) | Policy options | BN | Nyando Papyrus wetland, Kenya | |
Wu et al. (2019) | Virtual water use | Input-output analysis | Worldwide | |
Lopez-Nicolas et al. (2018) | Ground water supply | Water poverty Index | San Luis Potosi, Mexico | |
Zhou et al. (2015) | Human-water relationship | Conceptual model | Murrumbidgee catchment, Australia | |
Management and response to extreme hydrological events and other water crisis issues | Di Baldassarre et al. (2013) | Human-flood interactions | System dynamics | Fictional catchment |
Viglione et al. (2014) | Human-flood interactions | System dynamics | Fictional catchment | |
Gunda et al. (2018) | Water stress | Hydrological model and system dynamic model | Valdez acequia, New Mexico | |
Kuil et al. (2016) | Drought process | Conceptual model | Ancient Maya | |
Sawada and Hanazaki (2020) | Human-flood interactions | Model-data integration | Punjab province of the Indus River basin, Pakistan | |
Yu et al. (2017) | Flood resilience | Evolutionary game theory | Coastal Bangladesh | |
Van Loon et al. (2019) | Human influence on hydrological droughts | Paired-catchment analysis | Cases in the UK and Australia |
Figure 3 Social water cycle from the perspective of the water system |
Figure 4 The process of socio-hydrology supporting IWRM for SDGs |
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