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| Titel |
Revisiting an interdisciplinary hydrological modelling project. A socio-hydrology (?) example from the early 2000s |
| VerfasserIn |
Roman Seidl, Roland Barthel |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2016
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
en
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In: GRA - Volume 18 (2016) |
| Datensatznummer |
250131625
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2016-12053.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Interdisciplinary scientific and societal knowledge plays an increasingly important role in
global change research. Also, in the field of water resources interdisciplinarity as well as
cooperation with stakeholders from outside academia have been recognized as important. In
this contribution, we revisit an integrated regional modelling system (DANUBIA), which was
developed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers and relied on stakeholder participation
in the framework of the GLOWA-Danube project from 2001 to 2011 (Mauser and Prasch
2016). As the model was developed before the current increase in literature on participatory
modelling and interdisciplinarity, we ask how a socio-hydrology approach would have helped
and in what way it would have made the work different. The present contribution
firstly presents the interdisciplinary concept of DANUBIA, mainly with focus on the
integration of human behaviour in a spatially explicit, process-based numerical modelling
system (Roland Barthel, Janisch, Schwarz, Trifkovic, Nickel, Schulz, and Mauser
2008; R. Barthel, Nickel, Meleg, Trifkovic, and Braun 2005). Secondly, we compare
the approaches to interdisciplinarity in GLOWA-Danube with concepts and ideas
presented by socio-hydrology. Thirdly, we frame DANUBIA and a review of key
literature on socio-hydrology in the context of a survey among hydrologists (N = 184).
This discussion is used to highlight gaps and opportunities of the socio-hydrology
approach.
We show that the interdisciplinary aspect of the project and the participatory process of
stakeholder integration in DANUBIA were not entirely successful. However, important
insights were gained and important lessons were learnt. Against the background of these
experiences we feel that in its current state, socio-hydrology is still lacking a plan for
knowledge integration. Moreover, we consider necessary that socio-hydrology takes into
account the lessons learnt from these earlier examples of knowledge integration (see also,
Hamilton, ElSawah, Guillaume, Jakeman, and Pierce 2015; Jakeman and Letcher
2003).
Our contribution attempts to close a gap between previous concepts of integration of
socio-economic aspects into hydrology (typically inspired by Integrated Water Resources
Management) and the new socio-hydrology approach. We suppose that socio-hydrology
could benefit from widening its scope and considering previous research at the boundaries
between hydrology and social sciences. At the same time, concepts developed prior to
socio-hydrology were seldom entirely successful. It might be beneficial to review these
approaches developed earlier and those that are being developed in parallel from the
perspective of socio-hydrology.
References:
Barthel, R., S. Janisch, N. Schwarz, A. Trifkovic, D. Nickel, C. Schulz, and W. Mauser.
2008. An integrated modelling framework for simulating regional-scale actor responses
to global change in the water domain. Environmental Modelling & Software, 23:
1095-1121.
Barthel, R., D. Nickel, A. Meleg, A. Trifkovic, and J. Braun. 2005. Linking the physical
and the socio-economic compartments of an integrated water and land use management
model on a river basin scale using an object-oriented water supply model. Physics and
Chemistry of the Earth, 30: 389-397. doi: 10.1016/j.pce.2005.06.006
Hamilton, S. H., S. ElSawah, J. H. A. Guillaume, A. J. Jakeman, and S. A. Pierce. 2015.
Integrated assessment and modelling: Overview and synthesis ofsalient dimensions.
Environmental Modelling and Software, 64: 215-229. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.12.005
Jakeman, A. J., and R. A. Letcher. 2003. Integrated assessment and modelling: features,
principles and examples for catchment management. Environmental Modelling & Software,
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Mauser, W., and M. Prasch. 2016. Regional Assessment of Global Change Impacts - The
Project GLOWA-Danube: Springer International Publishing. |
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