Panta Rhei 2013-2015: global perspectives on hydrology, society and change

Hilary Mcmillan (1) , Alberto Montanari (2) , Christophe Cudennec (3) , Hubert Savenije (4) , Heidi Kreibich (5) , Tobias Krueger (6) , Junguo Liu (7) , Alfonso Mejia (8) , Anne van Loon (9) , Hafzullah Aksoy (10) , Giuliano Di Baldassarre (11) , Yan Huang (12) , Dominc Mazvimavi (13) , Magdalena Rogger (14) , Bellie Sivakumar (15, 16) , Tatiana Bibikova (17) , Attilio Castellarin (2) , Yangbo Chen (18) , David Finger (19) , Alexander Gelfan (20) , David M. Hannah (21) , Arjen Y. Hoekstra (22) , Hongyi Li (23) , Shreedhar Maskey (24) , Thibault Mathevet (25) , Ana Mijic (8) , Adrian Pedrozo Acuna (26) , Maria J. Polo (27) , Victor Rosales (28) , Paul Smith (29) , Alberto Viglione (14) , Veena Srinivasan (30) , Elena Toth (2) , Ronald van Nooyen (4) , Jun Xia (31)

1 NIWA - National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research [Christchurch]
2 Department DICAM
3 SAS - Sol Agro et hydrosystème Spatialisation
4 Department of Water Management
5 Hydrology Section
6 IRI THESys
7 SUSTech - Southern University of Science and Technology
8 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
9 School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences [Birmingham]
10 Department of Civil Engineering
11 Department of Earth Sciences [Uppsala]
12 Changjiang Water Resources Commission
13 University of Western Cape
14 Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management
15 Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
16 School of Civil and Environmental Engineering [Sydney]
17 Department of Hydrology [Moscow]
18 Laboratory of Water Disaster Management and Hydroinformatics, School of Geography and Planning
19 DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING - School of Science and Engineering
20 Water Problems Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
21 SoGEES - School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences [Plymouth]
22 Department of Water Engineering and Management
23 Hydrology Technical Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
24 Department of Water Science and Engineering
25 EDF R&D LNHE - Laboratoire National d’Hydraulique et Environnement
26 Institute of Engineering
27 Department of Hydraulic Engineering
28 IMP - Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo
29 Lancaster Environment Centre
30 Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
31 The Research Institute for Water Security

In 2013, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) launched the hydrological decade 2013-2022 with the theme "Panta Rhei: Change in Hydrology and Society". The decade recognizes the urgency of hydrological research to understand and predict the interactions of society and water, to support sustainable water resource use under changing climatic and environmental conditions. This paper reports on the first Panta Rhei biennium 2013-2015, providing a comprehensive resource that describes the scope and direction of Panta Rhei. We bring together the knowledge of all the Panta Rhei working groups, to summarize the most pressing research questions and how the hydrological community is progressing towards those goals. We draw out interconnections between different strands of research, and reflect on the need to take a global view on hydrology in the current era of human impacts and environmental change. Finally, we look back to the six driving science questions identified at the outset of Panta Rhei, to quantify progress towards those aims.

Mots clés: Panta Rhei; water resources; global hydrology; human impacts; climate change; socio-hydrology; hydrological decade; water security; society

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Hilary Mcmillan, Alberto Montanari, Christophe Cudennec, Hubert Savenije, Heidi Kreibich, et al.. Panta Rhei 2013-2015: global perspectives on hydrology, society and change. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 2016, 61 (7), pp.1174-1191. ⟨10.1080/02626667.2016.1159308⟩. ⟨hal-01604238⟩