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A journey of a thousand miles begins with one small step – human agency, hydrological processes and time in socio-hydrology |
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M. W. Ertsen, J. T. Murphy, L. E. Purdue, T. Zhu |
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Englisch
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1027-5606
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In: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences ; 18, no. 4 ; Nr. 18, no. 4 (2014-04-08), S.1369-1382 |
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250120329
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/hess-18-1369-2014.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| When simulating social action in modeling efforts, as in socio-hydrology, an
issue of obvious importance is how to ensure that social action by human
agents is well-represented in the analysis and the model. Generally, human
decision-making is either modeled on a yearly basis or lumped together as
collective social structures. Both responses are problematic, as human
decision-making is more complex and organizations are the result of human
agency and cannot be used as explanatory forces. A way out of the dilemma of
how to include human agency is to go to the largest societal and
environmental clustering possible: society itself and climate, with time
steps of years or decades. In the paper, another way out is developed: to
face human agency squarely, and direct the modeling approach to the agency of
individuals and couple this with the lowest appropriate hydrological level
and time step. This approach is supported theoretically by the work of Bruno
Latour, the French sociologist and philosopher. We discuss irrigation
archaeology, as it is in this discipline that the issues of scale and
explanatory force are well discussed. The issue is not just what scale to
use: it is what scale matters. We argue that understanding the arrangements
that permitted the management of irrigation over centuries requires modeling
and understanding the small-scale, day-to-day operations and personal
interactions upon which they were built. This effort, however, must be
informed by the longer-term dynamics, as these provide the context within
which human agency is acted out. |
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