Socio-hydrology has quickly emerged as a potentially transformative interdisciplinary science for understanding barriers and opportunities to enhance sustainability in coupled human-water systems. Unequal, pre-existing social structures are an important feature of human-water system that shape the flow of water. Yet, the socio-hydrology has not yet fully attended to the issues of social stratification, inequality, and power. This paper reviews advances in the field of environmental sociology on the relationship between social inequality and the natural environment. The goal is to open up questions about social inequalities that would further enhance socio-hydrological science.

社会水文学已经迅速发展成为一种具有潜在变革性的跨学科科学，旨在了解阻碍人类水系统耦合的可持续性的障碍和机会。不平等的，先前存在的社会结构是塑造水流的人类水系统的重要特征。但是，社会水文学尚未完全解决社会分层，不平等和权力问题。本文回顾了社会不平等与自然环境之间关系的环境社会学研究进展。目的是提出有关社会不平等的问题，这将进一步加强社会水文学。