Time scale interactions and the coevolution of humans and water

摘要: We present a coevolutionary view of hydrologic systems, revolving around feedbacks between environmental and social processes operating across different time scales. This brings to the fore an emphasis on emergent phenomena in changing water such as levee effect, adaptation change, system lock-in, collapse due resource depletion. Changing human values play key role emergence these should therefore be considered internal system. Guidance is provided for framing modeling test alternative hypotheses about how they arose. A plurality models, from stylized comprehensive system-of-system may assist strategic management long scales through facilitating stakeholder participation, exploring possibility space futures, helping synthesize observed dynamics wide range case studies. Future research opportunities lie arising scale interactions historical, comparative, process studies human-water feedbacks.