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Social science in a water observing system
Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA
School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Department of Geography, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
Department of Psychology, California State University, San Marcos, California, USA
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, USA
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
We set forth an argument for the integration of social science research with natural science and engineering research in major research infrastructure investments addressing water science. A program of integrated observation of water resources offers great opportunities to address several environmental “grand challenges” identified by the National Research Council, including climate variability, institutions and resource use, and land use dynamics, and their importance for hydrologic forecasting. We argue that such a program has the potential to advance both water science and the contributing disciplines. However, to realize this potential, it is essential to recognize that social science requires critical infrastructure funding on the scale of advanced research facilities in the natural sciences and engineering.
Received 17 May 2009; accepted 16 September 2009; published 7 November 2009.
Citation: (2009), Social science in a water observing system, Water Resour. Res., 45, W11301, doi:10.1029/2009WR008216.
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