Perspectives on Socio-Hydrology: The Influence of Human Activities on Flood Risk Management and Water Resource Policy Changes

Socio-hydrology represents a multidisciplinary field, which includes the dynamic reactions and mutual interactions between water and people. It considers both anthropogenic factors, i.e., land use changes, water uses, water policies changes, and other human activities playing an important role in the hydrological cycle, as well as environmental factors influencing people, with a particular emphasis on the feedback effects of hydrological changes on human society, which can respond in multiple ways to water crises, droughts, and floods.

This Special Issue aims to promote and publish research investigating human–water system interactions. Interdisciplinary contributions from the engineering, Earth, and social sciences are welcome. Topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to:

• Modeling the interactions between human and water in terms of water management policy changes; and society's reactions in the short-term and adaptation in the long-term to floods, droughts, and water crises.
• Assessing human behavior uncertainty in integrated water resources; highlighting cognitive biases of human decisions in water-related issues.
• New techniques and applications to model socio-hydrological systems, or reviews on existing techniques and methods.
• Hydro-social and socio-hydrological research on flood risk management.
• The influence of human activities on water-related hazards and risks.
• Differences in narrow and broad scales of socio-hydrological problems.

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Dr. Iolanda Borzì
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• human–flood interactions
• socio-hydrological modeling
• flood risk
• sustainable water resources management
• human behavior
• human–water interactions