Print Email Facebook Twitter Evolving water science in the Anthropocene Title Evolving water science in the Anthropocene Author Savenije, H.H.G. Hoekstra, A.Y. Van der Zaag, P. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Water Management Date 2013-12-01 Abstract This paper reviews the changing relation between man and water since the industrial revolution, the period that has been called the Anthropocene because of the unprecedented scale at which humans have altered the planet.We show how the rapidly changing reality urges us to continuously improve our understanding of the complex interactions between man and the water system. The paper starts with demonstrating that hydrology and the science of water resources management have played key roles in human and economic development throughout history; yet these roles have often been marginalised or obscured. Knowledge on hydrology and water resources engineering and management helped to transform the landscape, and thus also the very hydrology within catchments itself. It is only fairly recent that water experts have become selfconscious of such mechanisms, exemplified by several concepts that try to internalise them (integrated water resources management, eco-hydrology, socio-hydrology). We have reached a stage where a more systemic understanding of scale interdependencies can inform the sustainable governance of water systems, using new concepts like precipitationsheds, virtual water transfers, water footprint and water value flow. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:35964d73-222e-4c51-bfc5-c902a8d3ff87 DOI https://doi.org/10.5194/hessd-10-7619-2013 Publisher European Geosciences Union (EGU) ISSN 1812-2108 Source Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 10 (6), 2013 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2013 The Author(s)CC Attribution 3.0 License Files PDF 303482.pdf 760 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:35964d73-222e-4c51-bfc5-c902a8d3ff87/datastream/OBJ/view