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| Titel |
Towards understanding the dynamic behaviour of floodplains as human-water systems |
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G. Baldassarre, M. Kooy, J. S. Kemerink, L. Brandimarte |
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Englisch
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1027-5606
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In: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences ; 17, no. 8 ; Nr. 17, no. 8 (2013-08-15), S.3235-3244 |
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250085912
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/hess-17-3235-2013.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| This paper offers a conceptual approach to explore the complex dynamics of
floodplains as fully coupled human-water systems. A number of hydrologists
have recently investigated the impact of human activities (such as flood
control measures, land-use changes, and settlement patterns) on the
frequency and severity of floods. Meanwhile, social scientists have shown
how interactions between society and waters in deltas and floodplain areas,
including the frequency and severity of floods, have an impact on the ways
in which social relations unfold (in terms of governance processes,
policies, and institutions) and societies are organised (spatially,
politically, and socially). However, we argue that the interactions and
associated feedback mechanisms between hydrological and social processes
remain largely unexplored and poorly understood. Thus, there is a need to
better understand how the institutions and governance processes interact
with hydrological processes in deltas and floodplains to influence the
frequency and severity of floods, while (in turn) hydrological processes
co-constitute the social realm and make a difference for how social
relations unfold to shape governance processes and institutions. Our
research goal, therefore, is not in identifying one or the other side of the
cycle (hydrological or social), but in explaining the relationship between
them: how, when, where, and why they interact, and to what result for both
social relations and hydrological processes? We argue that long time series
of hydrological and social data, along with remote sensing data, can be used
to observe floodplain dynamics from unconventional approaches, and
understand the complex interactions between water and human systems taking
place in floodplain areas, across scales and levels of human impacts, and
within different hydro-climatic conditions, socio-cultural settings, and
modes of governance. |
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