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| Titel |
Evolving water science in the Anthropocene |
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H. H. G. Savenije, A. Y. Hoekstra, P. Van der Zaag |
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Englisch
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1027-5606
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In: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences ; 18, no. 1 ; Nr. 18, no. 1 (2014-01-23), S.319-332 |
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250120260
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/hess-18-319-2014.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| This paper reviews the changing relation between human beings and water
since the Industrial Revolution, a period that has been called the
Anthropocene because of the unprecedented scale at which humans have altered
the planet during this time. We show how the rapidly changing world urges us to
continuously improve our understanding of the complex interactions between
humans and the water system. The paper starts by demonstrating that
hydrology and the science of managing water resources have played key roles
in human and economic development throughout history; yet these roles have
often been marginalised or obscured. Knowledge of hydrology and water
resources engineering and management helped to transform the landscape, and
thus also the very hydrology within catchments itself. It is only fairly
recent that water experts have become conscious of such mechanisms,
exemplified by several concepts that try to incorporate them – integrated
water resources management, eco-hydrology, socio-hydrology. We have reached
a stage at which a more systemic understanding of scale interdependencies can
inform the sustainable governance of water systems, using new concepts like
precipitation sheds, virtual water transfers, water footprints, and water value
flow. |
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