Characterizing the potential for drought action from combined hydrological and societal perspectives

Towler, Erin; Lazrus, Heather; PaiMazumder, Debasish

doi:10.5194/hess-23-1469-2019

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“…Drought Kuil et al, 2016;Di Baldassarre et al, 2017;Elagib et al, 2017;Gonzales and Ajami, 2017;Han et al, 2017;Breyer et al, 2018;Pouladi et al, 2019;Towler et al, 2019;Medeiros and Sivapalan, 2020;Savelli et al, 2021 10 7%…”

Section: Water Components Used In Primary Studiesmentioning

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“…Puzyreva and de Vries (2021) examined historical exposure to flooding, the community response and preparedness, evolution of risk acceptance, community engagement, perceptions of flooding causes, and how they feedback one another. Towler et al (2019) drought feedbacks were influenced by science, technology, as well as historical lessons learned and management strategies. Robinne et al (2018) included education capacity in their social variables.…”

Section: Spatial-temporal Interactions and Feedbacksmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, Sun et al (2019) examined sociohydrological processes in a region covering 31 provincial-level administrative areas in China to better understand virtual water trade and water consumptions patterns. A study was categorized as having the spatial extent of a "water body network" when the study boundaries were determined by a specific geographical area surrounding a water body or system, such as an irrigation system (Khalifa et al, 2020), floodplain (Ferdous et al, 2018), or aquifer (Towler et al, 2019). A study was coded as having the spatial extent of a "social network" when the study area was defined by a social structure but did not conform to any of the more common social boundaries, such as county or state.…”

Section: Spatial Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

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A Systematic Review of Spatial-Temporal Scale Issues in Sociohydrology

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Sociohydrology is a recent effort to integrate coupled human-water systems to understand the dynamics and co-evolution of the system in a holistic sense. However, due to the complexity and uncertainty involved in coupled human-water systems, the feedbacks and interactions are inherently difficult to model. Part of this complexity is due to the multi-scale nature across space and time at which different hydrologic and social processes occur and the varying scale at which data is available. This systematic review seeks to comprehensively collect those documents that conduct analysis within the sociohydrology framework to quantify the spatial-temporal scale(s) and the types of variables and datasets that were used. Overall, a majority of sociohydrology studies reviewed were primarily published in hydrological journals and contain more established hydrological, rather than social, models. The spatial extents varied by political and natural boundaries with the most common being cities and watersheds. Temporal extents also varied from event-based to millennial timescales where decadal and yearly were the most common. In addition to this, current limitations of sociohydrology research, notably the absence of an interdisciplinary unity, future directions, and implications for scholars doing sociohydrology are discussed.

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Section: Spatial-temporal Interactions and Feedbacksmentioning

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Section: Spatial Scalementioning

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“…While most of the disciplinary literature performs quantitative assessments of agricultural production, interdisciplinary works have recently expanded the analysis to incorporate also intangible impacts of drought (Quandt, 2019 ; Towler et al, 2019 ; Wu et al, 2018 ; Yun et al, 2012 ). These analyses focus on perceptions of drought which, despite their immaterial nature, can change the manner in which society experiences a drought.…”

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Drought and society: Scientific progress, blind spots, and future prospects

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Human activities have increasingly intensified the severity, frequency, and negative impacts of droughts in several regions across the world. This trend has led to broader scientific conceptualizations of drought risk that account for human actions and their interplays with natural systems. This review focuses on physical and engineering sciences to examine the way and extent to which these disciplines account for social processes in relation to the production and distribution of drought risk. We conclude that this research has significantly progressed in terms of recognizing the role of humans in reshaping drought risk and its socioenvironmental impacts. We note an increasing engagement with and contribution to understanding vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation patterns. Moreover, by advancing (socio)hydrological models, developing numerical indexes, and enhancing data processing, physical and engineering scientists have determined the extent of human influences in the propagation of drought hazard. However, these studies do not fully capture the complexities of anthropogenic transformations. Very often, they portray society as homogeneous, and decision-making processes as apolitical, thereby concealing the power relations underlying the production of drought and the uneven distribution of its impacts. The resistance in engaging explicitly with politics and social power-despite their major role in producing anthropogenic droughtcan be attributed to the strong influence of positivist epistemologies in engineering and physical sciences. We suggest that an active engagement with critical social sciences can further theorizations of drought risk by shedding light on the structural and historical systems of power that engender every socioenvironmental transformation.

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Characterizing the potential for drought action from combined hydrological and societal perspectives

Abstract: We discuss how the results can be used to reduce potential disagreement among stakeholders and promote sustainable water management, which is particularly important for planning under increasing drought.Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.

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A Systematic Review of Spatial-Temporal Scale Issues in Sociohydrology

A Systematic Review of Spatial-Temporal Scale Issues in Sociohydrology

Drought and society: Scientific progress, blind spots, and future prospects

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