Review article

Hydrology development in the 21st century

Ognjen Bonacci orcid.org/0000-0002-7123-3421 ; Sveučilište u Splitu, Fakultet građevinarstva, arhitekture i geodezije, Split, Hrvatska

Abstract

The paper presents the principles and directions of hydrology development in the 21st century. It addresses the issues and role of ecohydrology and water footprint, value and price. Special attention is paid to explaining the new interdisciplinary science called sociohydrology. Complex problems that occur in the relationship between man and water should be treated much more broadly than is usual in traditional hydrology. The interaction between man and water is complex, dynamic and subject to sudden changes caused primarily by water availability in space and time as well as water needs of people and nature. It contains an unfathomable number of consequences for all processes on earth (social, ecological, biological, etc.). The relationship between man and water directly affects the fulfilment of planetary sustainable development objective. For this reason, this relationship cannot be treated exclusively or predominantly from the hydrological standpoint. As an attempt to find the answer to this planetary challenge, ecohydrology, hydrobiology and the concept of water footprint appeared about thirty years ago. The term sociohydrology was introduced by Murugesu Sivapalan, Hubert Savenije and Günter Blöschl in an article published in 2012 in the prestigious scientific magazine Hydrological Processes. This paper presents the basic principles and tasks of sociohydrology, emphasizing that it is in the early development phase and has yet to form and create conditions for its primary objective – providing support to sustainable development.

Keywords

sociohydrology, ecohydrology, hydroecology, water footprint, sustainable development

Hrčak ID:

255031

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/255031

Publication date:

30.3.2021.

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