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ProfessorWouterBuytaert

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor in Hydrology and Water Resources
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 1329w.buytaert Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Miss Judith Barritt +44 (0)20 7594 5967

 
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Location

 

403ASkempton BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Mao:2017:10.5194/hess-21-3655-2017,
author = {Mao, F and Clark, J and Karpouzoglou, T and Dewulf, A and Buytaert, W and Hannah, D},
doi = {10.5194/hess-21-3655-2017},
journal = {HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES},
pages = {3655--3670},
title = {HESS Opinions: A conceptual framework for assessing socio-hydrological resilience under change},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3655-2017},
volume = {21},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Despite growing interest in resilience, there is still significant scope for increasing its conceptual clarity and practical relevance in socio-hydrological contexts: specifically, questions of how socio-hydrological systems respond to and cope with perturbations and how these connect to resilience remain unanswered. In this opinion paper, we propose a novel conceptual framework for understanding and assessing resilience in coupled socio-hydrological contexts, and encourage debate on the inter-connections between socio-hydrology and resilience. Taking a systems perspective, we argue that resilience is a set of systematic properties with three dimensions: absorptive, adaptive, and transformative, and contend that socio-hydrological systems can be viewed as various forms of human–water couplings, reflecting different aspects of these interactions. We propose a framework consisting of two parts. The first part addresses the identity of socio-hydrological resilience, answering questions such as resilience of what in relation to what. We identify three existing framings of resilience for different types of human–water systems and subsystems, which have been used in different fields: (1) the water subsystem, highlighting hydrological resilience to anthropogenic hazards; (2) the human subsystem, foregrounding social resilience to hydrological hazards; and (3) the coupled human–water system, exhibiting socio-hydrological resilience. We argue that these three system types and resiliences afford new insights into the clarification and evaluation of different water management challenges. The first two types address hydrological and social states, while the third type emphasises the feedbacks and interactions between human and water components within complex systems subject to internal or external disturbances. In the second part, we focus on resilience management and develop the notion of the resilience canvas, a novel heuristic device to identify possible pa
AU  - Mao,F
AU  - Clark,J
AU  - Karpouzoglou,T
AU  - Dewulf,A
AU  - Buytaert,W
AU  - Hannah,D
DO  - 10.5194/hess-21-3655-2017
EP  - 3670
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 1027-5606
SP  - 3655
TI  - HESS Opinions: A conceptual framework for assessing socio-hydrological resilience under change
T2  - HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3655-2017
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000405866700001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/51808
VL  - 21
ER  -
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