ABSTRACT

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.

摘要

社会水文学已经扩展并有效地使水文界接触到其他科学学科，特别是社会科学的思想和方法。然而，关于如何捕捉人类能动性以及如何结合来自水文和社会科学的不同方法和学科观点来发展知识，它仍有许多需要探索。一个有用的起点是注意到人与水关系的复杂性不仅是由于跨空间和时间尺度的相互作用，而且是跨社会系统不同组织层次的相互作用。这需要考虑另一种分析尺度，即人类组织尺度和研究方法的跨学科性。基于发表在本期刊特刊Advancing Socio-hydrology上的论文在 2019 年至 2022 年期间，本文阐明了如何通过捕捉人类决策的多层次性质并应用跨学科的多方法方法来加强对耦合的人-水系统的理解。