This session welcomes abstracts that consider how to observe, analyse and model feedbacks between social, political and economic processes and hydrological and other environmental processes. The session is organised by the International Commission on Human-Water Feedbacks (ICHWF) of the IAHS, which provides a home for interdisciplinary research on the dynamics of human-water systems, particularly involving the social sciences.
Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
• Observations of human impacts on, and responses to, hydrological change
• Interactions of communities with local water resources
• Hydrological models that include anthropogenic effects
• Interdisciplinary qualitive and quantitative methods
• Theoretical models to isolate, conceptualize and/or simulate feedbacks in human-water systems
• Critical reflections on inter- and transdisciplinary projects (problem framings, roles, methods, exclusions, suggested interventions)
• Creation of databases describing the hydrology of human-impacted systems
• Data analyses and comparisons of human-water systems around the globe and especially in the global south
• Human interactions with hydrological extremes, i.e. floods, droughts and water scarcity
• The role of gender, age, and cultural background in the impacts of hydrological extremes, risk and risk perception, and during/after crises and emergencies