Frontiers in Water (Jan 2022)
Never Ask for a Lighter Rain but a Stronger Umbrella
- Saket Pande,
- Melissa Haeffner,
- Günter Blöschl,
- Mohammad Faiz Alam,
- Mohammad Faiz Alam,
- Cyndi Castro,
- Giuliano Di Baldassarre,
- Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky,
- Rick Hogeboom,
- Rick Hogeboom,
- Heidi Kreibich,
- Jenia Mukherjee,
- Aditi Mukherji,
- Fernando Nardi,
- Marcus Nüsser,
- Marcus Nüsser,
- Fuqiang Tian,
- Pieter van Oel,
- Murugesu Sivapalan,
- Murugesu Sivapalan
Affiliations
- Saket Pande
- Department of Water Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
- Melissa Haeffner
- Environmental Science and Management Department, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States
- Günter Blöschl
- Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
- Mohammad Faiz Alam
- Department of Water Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
- Mohammad Faiz Alam
- International Water Management Institute (IWMI), New Delhi, India
- Cyndi Castro
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
- Giuliano Di Baldassarre
- Department of Earth Sciences, Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky
- ISOE—Institute for Social-Ecological Research, Frankfurt, Germany
- Rick Hogeboom
- Multidisciplinary Water Management, Faculty of Engineering Technology, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
- Rick Hogeboom
- Water Footprint Network, Enschede, Netherlands
- Heidi Kreibich
- 0Section Hydrology, German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), Potsdam, Germany
- Jenia Mukherjee
- 1Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
- Aditi Mukherji
- International Water Management Institute (IWMI), New Delhi, India
- Fernando Nardi
- 2Water Resources Research and Documentation Center (WARREDOC), University for Foreigners of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
- Marcus Nüsser
- 3Department of Geography, South Asia Institute (SAI), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
- Marcus Nüsser
- 4Heidelberg Centre for the Environment (HCE), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
- Fuqiang Tian
- 5Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Pieter van Oel
- 6Water Resources Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
- Murugesu Sivapalan
- 7Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
- Murugesu Sivapalan
- 8Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2021.822334
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 3
Abstract
In a recent editorial in the journal Nature Sustainability, the editors raised the concern that journal submissions on water studies appear too similar. The gist of the editorial: “too many publications and not enough ideas.” In this response, we contest this notion, and point to the numerous new ideas that result from taking a broader view of the water science field. Drawing inspiration from a recently hosted conference geared at transcending traditional disciplinary silos and forging new paradigms for water research, we are, in fact, enthusiastic and optimistic about the ways scientists are investigating political, economic, historical, and cultural intersections toward more just and sustainable human-water relations and ways of knowing.
Keywords
- first sociohydrology conference
- conceptual and methodological pluralism
- water crises
- societal feedbacks within engineering designs
- inclusive dialogues
