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Chairs(s):

Joshua Cousins, 

; Helen Sanders, SUNY-ESF

Description:

The impacts of climate change will include a number of shocks and stresses, such as floods and droughts, on water systems. In response, efforts to build water resilience have emerged in urban and rural communities across the globe. To better understand and address water resiliency and security, we seek to create an interdisciplinary dialogue at the nexus between hydro-social systems and social-hydrological systems. Within framings of the hydro-social cycle, scholars have brought attention to the social construction and production of water, inequality and injustice concerning access to water, and the commodification of water. In contrast, scholars focused on social-hydrological systems have illuminated concerns regarding modeling methods, water management techniques, and water governance approaches. Despite differing origins and areas of foci, however, they both engage with the complex relationship between humans and the hydrological cycle. In this session, we invite papers utilizing hydro-social systems or social-hydrological systems to investigate water resilience and security.

Themes of interest include:

We are interested in a wide range of papers including those from political ecology, eco-hydrology, water policy studies, climate resilience studies, urban hydrology, and socio-environmental systems analysis, among others.

-Interdisciplinary projects combining social-hydrological systems and hydrosocial systems

-The intersection between human behavior and eco-hydrological shifting dynamics

-Urban and rural water resilience and how hydro-social and social-hydrological researchers use resilience to address waterway stressors

-Urban and rural community interaction with local water systems

-Changes in livelihoods and human behavior based on hydrological stressors

-The history of human settlement surrounding waterways and how they shape the geomorphology, biochemistry, and aquatic communities of those waterways

-Human resilience under hydrological stressors such as drought, flooding, landslides, and fires

-Vulnerability and hazards

-Water infrastructure

Non-Presenting Participants Agenda