Socio‐hydrology: Use‐inspired water sustainability science for the Anthropocene

摘要: Water is at the core of most difficult sustainability challenges facing humans in modern era, involving feedbacks across multiple scales, sectors, and agents. We suggest that a transformative new discipline necessary to address many varied water-related Anthropocene. Specifically, we propose socio-hydrology as use-inspired scientific focus on understanding, interpretation, scenario development flows stocks human-modified water cycle time space scales. A key aspect explicit inclusion two-way between human systems, which differentiates from other inter-disciplinary disciplines dealing with water. illustrate potential through three examples problems, defined paradoxes, can only be fully resolved within socio-hydrologic framework encompasses such coupling systems.