WHY SHOULD BRAZILIAN RESEARCHERS JOIN SOCIO-HYDROLOGICAL RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES?

Código

XXIII-SBRH0846

Autores

FELIPE AUGUSTO ARGUELLO DE SOUZA, Namrata Bhattacharya-Mis, Günter Blöschl, Christa Brelsford, Ana Carolina Sarmento Buarque, Suzana Maria Gico Lima Montenegro, Vinicius Gustavo de Oliveira, Eduardo Mário Mendiondo

Tema

13 - Tópicos Especiais

Resumo

Socio-hydrological studies aim at unravelling coupled human-water feedbacks. It has gained attention by worldwide researchers since its first publication, in 2012. Although hydrological and social experts in water resources domain have published several relevant findings, the lack of Brazilian case studies and Brazilian researchers in this field is noteworthy. The aim of this manuscript is to ascertain if the absence of Brazilian contributions to high impact journals exists, identify what domains of water resources have been investigated by international and what gaps in the Brazilian context should be better understood. To do so, the present study performs a bibliometric study on previous socio-hydrological manuscripts and on-going Brazilian projects that focus on socio-hydrological analysis. The results reveal that investigators from South America are under-represented in socio-hydrological publications in international journals. We conclude that although the Brazilian scientists have put efforts to contribute to the development of sociohydrology, more local case-studies can be explored and provide an important contribution to this emerging science.