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Murugesu Sivapalan
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Sociohydrology
Scientific Challenges in Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2030 represent an ambitious blueprint to reduce inequalities globally and achieve a sustainable future for all mankind. Meeting the SDGs for water requires an integrated approach to managing and allocating wate
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Groundwater Vulnerability in a Megacity Under Climate and Economic Changes
A Coupled Sociohydrological Analysis
Groundwater depletion has become increasingly challenging, and many cities worldwide have adopted drastic policies to relieve water stress due to socioeconomic growth. Located on the declining aquifer of the North China Plain, Beijing, for example, has developed plans to limit th
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Adaptation of water resources systems to changing society and environment
A statement by the International Association of Hydrological Sciences
We explore how to address the challenges of adaptation of water resources systems under changing conditions by supporting flexible, resilient and low-regret solutions, coupled with on-going monitoring and evaluation. This will require improved understanding of the linkages betwee
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Adaptation of water resources systems to changing society and environment
A statement by the International Association of Hydrological Sciences
We explore how to address the challenges of adaptation of water resources systems under changing conditions by supporting flexible, resilient and low-regret solutions, coupled with on-going monitoring and evaluation. This will require improved understanding of the linkages betwee
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Adaptation of water resources systems to changing society and environment
A statement by the International Association of Hydrological Sciences
We explore how to address the challenges of adaptation of water resources systems under changing conditions by supporting flexible, resilient and low-regret solutions, coupled with on-going monitoring and evaluation. This will require improved understanding of the linkages betwee
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Human-water interface in hydrological modelling
Current status and future directions
Over recent decades, the global population has been rapidly increasing and human activities have altered terrestrial water fluxes to an unprecedented extent. The phenomenal growth of the human footprint has significantly modified hydrological processes in various ways (e.g. irrig
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Alternative socio-centric approach for model validation
A way forward for socio-hydrology
To better understand and mitigate the impacts of humans on the water cycle, the importance of studying the coevolution of coupled human-water systems has been recognized. Because of its unique system dynamics, the Murrumbidgee river basin (part of the larger Murray-Darlin basin,
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This study demonstrates a socio-hydrological model used to examine what future conditions could be like in the Murrumbidgee basin, Australia, arising from change in climate and the economy. The model uses a coupled socio-hydrological dynamical system with endogenous social valu
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