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ArticleWater resources research2019

Sociohydrology: Scientific Challenges in Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals.

Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Murugesu Sivapalan, Maria Rusca, Christophe Cudennec, Margaret Garcia, Heidi Kreibich, Megan Konar, Elena Mondino, Johanna Mård, Saket Pande and 8 more

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Article in Water resources research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Giuliano Di BaldassarreDepartment of Earth Sciences Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8180-4996
Murugesu SivapalanDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana IL USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3004-3530
Maria RuscaDepartment of Earth Sciences Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4513-3213
Christophe CudennecAgrocampus Ouest, INRA, UMR SAS Rennes France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1707-8926
Margaret GarciaSchool of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment Arizona State University Tempe AZ USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2864-2377
Heidi KreibichGFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6274-3625
Megan KonarDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana IL USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0540-8438
Elena MondinoDepartment of Earth Sciences Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4364-4119
Johanna MårdDepartment of Earth Sciences Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8789-7628
Saket PandeFaculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences Delft University of Technology Delft The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3061-3185
Matthew R SandersonDepartment of Water Management Delft University of Technology The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5946-6556
Fuqiang TianDepartment of Hydraulic Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9414-7019
Alberto ViglioneInstitute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management Vienna University of Technology Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7587-4832
Jing WeiDepartment of Hydraulic Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing China.
Yongping WeiSchool of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland Brisbane Queensland Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4266-4433
David J YuLyles School of Civil Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette IN USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9929-1933
Veena SrinivasanAshoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment Bangalore India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5885-3116
Günter BlöschlInstitute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management Vienna University of Technology Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2227-8225

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2030 represent an ambitious blueprint to reduce inequalities globally and achieve a sustainable future for all mankind. Meeting the SDGs for water requires an integrated approach to managing and allocating water resources, by involving all actors and stakeholders, and considering how water resources link different sectors of society. To date, water management practice is dominated by technocratic, scenario-based approaches that may work well in the short term but can result in unintended consequences in the long term due to limited accounting of dynamic feedbacks between the natural, technical, and social dimensions of human-water systems. The discipline of sociohydrology has an important role to play in informing policy by developing a generalizable understanding of phenomena that arise from interactions between water and human systems. To explain these phenomena, sociohydrology must address several scientific challenges to strengthen the field and broaden its scope. These include engagement with social scientists to accommodate social heterogeneity, power relations, trust, cultural beliefs, and cognitive biases, which strongly influence the way in which people alter, and adapt to, changing hydrological regimes. It also requires development of new methods to formulate and test alternative hypotheses for the explanation of emergent phenomena generated by feedbacks between water and society. Advancing sociohydrology in these ways therefore represents a major contribution toward meeting the targets set by the SDGs, the societal grand challenge of our time.

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legacy effectsprecautionary principlesociohydrologySustainable Development Goalswater crises

Identifiers

PMID32742038
PMCPMC7388443

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