@article{fdi:010096061,
  title = {{A} situated proposal for a grounded approach to socio-hydrology},
  author = {{Z}warteveen, {M}. and {B}arreteau, {O}. and {O}gilvie, {A}ndrew and {K}uper, {M}. and {V}enot, {J}ean-{P}hilippe},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{S}ocio-hydrology, a range of attempts to better account for 'the social' in hydrological processes, has made significant progress during the {P}anta {R}hei scientific decade of the {I}nternational {A}ssociation of {H}ydrological {S}ciences. {Y}et, where socio-hydrological studies continue prioritizing hydrological dynamics in explanations and solutions, critical social science studies continue to remain reluctant to engage in helping solve water problems, especially when this involves quantification. {T}his {S}pecial {I}ssue gathers contributions that share the ambition to enhance methodological symmetry between hydrological and social science forms of knowledge-making. {R}ealizing this ambition hinges on (1) revisiting hydrology's epistemological preference for detachment, distance and replicability, replacing it with more modest forms of situated engagement that explicitly (re-)connect sociohydrological knowledge-making to (always specific and political) places, waters, experiences, people, concerns and actions, and (2) inviting critical social science to leave the comfort of moral high grounds to become engaged in the design and development of practical solutions. {T}his grounding of socio-hydrology takes the form of situated engagement and makes resulting knowledge both more accurate and more actionable, better linking proposed solutions to the transformations towards sustainability and justice that are so urgently needed.},
  keywords = {{S}ocio-hydrology ; {S}ituatedness ; {E}ngagement ; {S}ustainability ; {J}ustice},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{J}ournal of {H}ydrology},
  volume = {667},
  numero = {},
  pages = {134828 [11 p.]},
  ISSN = {0022-1694},
  year = {2026},
  DOI = {10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.134828},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010096061},
}