TY - JOUR
T1 - On capturing human agency and methodological interdisciplinarity in socio-hydrology research
AU - Yu, David J.
AU - Haeffner, Melissa
AU - Jeong, Hanseok
AU - Pande, Saket
AU - Dame, Juliane
AU - Di Baldassarre, Giuliano
AU - Garcia-Santos, Glenda
AU - Hermans, Leon
AU - Muneepeerakul, Rachata
AU - Nardi, Fernando
AU - Sanderson, Matthew R.
AU - Tian, Fuqiang
AU - Wei, Yongping
AU - Wessels, Josepha
AU - Sivapalan, Murugesu
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper was partially supported by a Collaborative National Science Foundation grant award titled Cross-Scale Interactions & the Design of Adaptive Reservoir Operations (award number: 1913665). Thanks are due to the authors of the Virtual Special Issue of the Hydrological Sciences Journal Advancing socio-hydrology for their inputs and to the Co-Editor Stacey Archfield and the reviewers for their comments and suggestions.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Socio-hydrology has expanded and been effective in exposing the hydrological community to ideas and approaches from other scientific disciplines, and social sciences in particular. Yet it still has much to explore regarding how to capture human agency and how to combine different methods and disciplinary views from both the hydrological and the social sciences to develop knowledge. A useful starting ground is noting that the complexity of human–water relations is due to interactions not only across spatial and temporal scales but also across different organizational levels of social systems. This calls for consideration of another analytical scale, the human organizational scale, and interdisciplinarity in study methods. Based on the papers published in this journal’s Special Issue Advancing Socio-hydrology over 2019–2022, this paper illuminates how the understanding of coupled human–water systems can be strengthened by capturing the multi-level nature of human decision making and by applying an interdisciplinary multi-method approach.
AB - Socio-hydrology has expanded and been effective in exposing the hydrological community to ideas and approaches from other scientific disciplines, and social sciences in particular. Yet it still has much to explore regarding how to capture human agency and how to combine different methods and disciplinary views from both the hydrological and the social sciences to develop knowledge. A useful starting ground is noting that the complexity of human–water relations is due to interactions not only across spatial and temporal scales but also across different organizational levels of social systems. This calls for consideration of another analytical scale, the human organizational scale, and interdisciplinarity in study methods. Based on the papers published in this journal’s Special Issue Advancing Socio-hydrology over 2019–2022, this paper illuminates how the understanding of coupled human–water systems can be strengthened by capturing the multi-level nature of human decision making and by applying an interdisciplinary multi-method approach.
KW - human–water relations
KW - interdisciplinary multi-method approach
KW - multi-level
KW - multi-scale
KW - organizational complexity
KW - socio-hydrology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85139905197&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85139905197&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/02626667.2022.2114836
DO - 10.1080/02626667.2022.2114836
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85139905197
SN - 0262-6667
VL - 67
SP - 1905
EP - 1916
JO - Hydrological Sciences Journal
JF - Hydrological Sciences Journal
IS - 13
ER -