Muddy waters: Refining the way forward for the “sustainability science” of socio-hydrogeology

dc.contributor.authorHynds, Paul
dc.contributor.authorRegan, Shane
dc.contributor.authorAndrade, Luisa
dc.contributor.authorMooney, Simon
dc.contributor.authorO'Malley, Kevin
dc.contributor.authorDiPelino, Stephanie
dc.contributor.authorO'Dwyer, Jean
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-28T07:16:33Z
dc.date.available2019-10-28T07:16:33Z
dc.date.issued2018-08-21
dc.description.abstractThe trouble with groundwater is that despite its critical importance to global water supplies, it frequently attracts insufficient management attention relative to more visible surface water sources, irrespective of regional climate, socioeconomic profile, and regulatory environment. To this end, the recently defined sub-discipline of “socio-hydrogeology”, an extension of socio-hydrology, seeks to translate and exchange knowledge with and between non-expert end-users, in addition to involving non-expert opinion and experience in hydrogeological investigations, thus emphasising a “bottom-up” methodology. It is widely acknowledged that issues pertaining to groundwater quality, groundwater quantity, climate change, and a poor general awareness and understanding of groundwater occurrence and movement are global in their scope. Moreover, while effective communication and engagement represent the key tenet of socio-hydrogeology, the authors consider that multiple actors should be identified and incorporated using stakeholder network analysis and may include policymakers, media and communications experts, mobile technology developers, and social scientists, to appropriately convey demographically focused bi-directional information, with the hydrogeological community representing the communication keystone. Accordingly, this article aims to highlight past and current work, elucidate key areas of development within socio-hydrogeology, and offer recommendations to ensure global efficacy of this increasingly important and growing field going forward. The authors seek to assist in protecting our global groundwater resource for future generations via an improved framework for understanding the interaction between communities and hydrogeological systems.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.articleid1111en
dc.identifier.citationHynds, P., Regan, S., Andrade, L., Mooney, S., O’Malley, K., DiPelino, S. and O’Dwyer, J., 2018. Muddy waters: refining the way forward for the “sustainability science” of socio-hydrogeology. Water, 10(9), 1111, (16 pp.). DOI:10.3390/w10091111en
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/w10091111en
dc.identifier.eissn2073-4441
dc.identifier.endpage16en
dc.identifier.issued9en
dc.identifier.journaltitleWater (Switzerland)en
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/8894
dc.identifier.volume10en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherMDPI AGen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/10/9/1111
dc.rights© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly citeden
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectSocio-hydrogeologyen
dc.subjectGroundwater managementen
dc.subjectCommunicationen
dc.subjectEngagementen
dc.subjectSocio-economic aspectsen
dc.titleMuddy waters: Refining the way forward for the “sustainability science” of socio-hydrogeologyen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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