To which extent are socio-hydrology studies truly integrative? The case of natural hazards and disaster research

[摘要] Given the recent developments in socio-hydrology and itspotential contributions to disaster risk reduction (DRR), we conducted asystematic literature review of socio-hydrological studies aiming toidentify persisting gaps and discuss tractable approaches for tackling them.A total of 44 articles that address natural hazards or disasters werereviewed in detail. Our results indicated that: (i) most of the studiesaddressed floods, whereas few applications were applied to droughts andcompound or multi-hazard events; (ii) none of the reviewed articlesinvestigated interactions across temporal and spatial scales; (iii) there isa wide range of understandings of what “social” means in socio-hydrology;(iv) quantitative approaches were used more often in comparison with mixed andqualitative approaches; (v) monodisciplinary studies prevailed over multi- orinterdisciplinary ones; and (vi) one-third of the articles involvedstakeholder participation. In summary, we observed a fragmentation in thefield, with a multitude of social and physical components, methods, and datasources being used. Based on these findings, we point out potential ways oftackling the identified challenges to advance socio-hydrology, includingstudying multiple hazards in a joint framework and exploiting new methodsfor integrating results from qualitative and quantitative analyses toleverage the strengths of different fields of knowledge. Addressing thesechallenges will improve our understanding of human–water interactions tosupport DRR.

[学科分类] 妇产科学