Socio-hydrology: an interplay of design and self-organization in a multilevel world

The emerging field of socio-hydrology is a special case of social-ecological systems research that focuses on coupled human-water systems, exploring how the hydrologic cycle and human cultural traits coevolve and how such coevolutions lead to phenomena of relevance to water security and sustainabili...

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Autores principales:	David J. Yu, Heejun Chang, Taylor T. Davis, Vicken Hillis, Landon T. Marston, Woi Sok Oh, Murugesu Sivapalan, Timothy M. Waring
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Publicado:	Resilience Alliance 2020
Materias:	coupled human-water system cultural evolution cultural multilevel selection robustness robustness-fragility trade-offs socio-hydrology the levee effect Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:3ccdee1158eb4069aff8ecbcfe8562d52021-12-02T18:04:53ZSocio-hydrology: an interplay of design and self-organization in a multilevel world1708-308710.5751/ES-11887-250422https://doaj.org/article/3ccdee1158eb4069aff8ecbcfe8562d52020-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol25/iss4/art22/https://doaj.org/toc/1708-3087The emerging field of socio-hydrology is a special case of social-ecological systems research that focuses on coupled human-water systems, exploring how the hydrologic cycle and human cultural traits coevolve and how such coevolutions lead to phenomena of relevance to water security and sustainability. As such, most problems tackled by socio-hydrology involve some aspects of engineering design, such as large-scale water infrastructure, and self-organization in a broad context, such as cultural change at the population level and the hydrologic shift at the river basin or aquifer level. However, within the field of socio-hydrology, it has been difficult to find general theories that assist our understanding of the dynamics emerging from the interplay between design and self-organization, hindering generalization of phenomena between cases. We address this gap by developing insights on how the theoretical frameworks of robustness-fragility trade-off and cultural multilevel selection can inform our understanding in this regard. We apply the two theories to two cases in the Ganges Brahmaputra Delta in Bangladesh and the Kissimmee River Basin in Florida, illustrating how the two theories may provide general insights into causal mechanisms shaping the socio-hydrological phenomena observed in the two cases. Specifically, we use the two theories to address (1) the transference of system fragility across different domains due to design choices and (2) the multilevel social processes in the nested organizational hierarchy that lead to the formation or collapse of shared cultural traits. We show that these two theories, separately or taken together, can provide richer theoretical grounding for understanding socio-hydrological phenomena.David J. YuHeejun ChangTaylor T. DavisVicken HillisLandon T. MarstonWoi Sok OhMurugesu SivapalanTimothy M. WaringResilience Alliancearticlecoupled human-water systemcultural evolutioncultural multilevel selectionrobustnessrobustness-fragility trade-offssocio-hydrologythe levee effectBiology (General)QH301-705.5EcologyQH540-549.5ENEcology and Society, Vol 25, Iss 4, p 22 (2020)
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topic	coupled human-water system cultural evolution cultural multilevel selection robustness robustness-fragility trade-offs socio-hydrology the levee effect Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5
spellingShingle	coupled human-water system cultural evolution cultural multilevel selection robustness robustness-fragility trade-offs socio-hydrology the levee effect Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5 David J. Yu Heejun Chang Taylor T. Davis Vicken Hillis Landon T. Marston Woi Sok Oh Murugesu Sivapalan Timothy M. Waring Socio-hydrology: an interplay of design and self-organization in a multilevel world
description	The emerging field of socio-hydrology is a special case of social-ecological systems research that focuses on coupled human-water systems, exploring how the hydrologic cycle and human cultural traits coevolve and how such coevolutions lead to phenomena of relevance to water security and sustainability. As such, most problems tackled by socio-hydrology involve some aspects of engineering design, such as large-scale water infrastructure, and self-organization in a broad context, such as cultural change at the population level and the hydrologic shift at the river basin or aquifer level. However, within the field of socio-hydrology, it has been difficult to find general theories that assist our understanding of the dynamics emerging from the interplay between design and self-organization, hindering generalization of phenomena between cases. We address this gap by developing insights on how the theoretical frameworks of robustness-fragility trade-off and cultural multilevel selection can inform our understanding in this regard. We apply the two theories to two cases in the Ganges Brahmaputra Delta in Bangladesh and the Kissimmee River Basin in Florida, illustrating how the two theories may provide general insights into causal mechanisms shaping the socio-hydrological phenomena observed in the two cases. Specifically, we use the two theories to address (1) the transference of system fragility across different domains due to design choices and (2) the multilevel social processes in the nested organizational hierarchy that lead to the formation or collapse of shared cultural traits. We show that these two theories, separately or taken together, can provide richer theoretical grounding for understanding socio-hydrological phenomena.
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author	David J. Yu Heejun Chang Taylor T. Davis Vicken Hillis Landon T. Marston Woi Sok Oh Murugesu Sivapalan Timothy M. Waring
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title	Socio-hydrology: an interplay of design and self-organization in a multilevel world
title_short	Socio-hydrology: an interplay of design and self-organization in a multilevel world
title_full	Socio-hydrology: an interplay of design and self-organization in a multilevel world
title_fullStr	Socio-hydrology: an interplay of design and self-organization in a multilevel world
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publisher	Resilience Alliance
publishDate	2020
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Socio-hydrology: an interplay of design and self-organization in a multilevel world

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