Wicked but worth it: Student perspectives on socio-hydrology

Sivapalan et al. (2012) introduced the concept of socio-hydrology as a ‘new science of people and water’ to meet this challenge. Socio-hydrology aims to broaden the study of water cycle dynamics to include social processes. This is similar to the field of ecohydrology, which incorporates ecological processes. However, unlike ecohydrology, which involves a synthesis of two natural science disciplines, socio-hydrology involves incorporation of social processes, which many consider fundamentally different from processes tackled traditionally by natural scientists and engineers.