Convergent and Transdisciplinary Integration: On the Future of Integrated Modeling of Human‐Water Systems

作者：Saman Razavi, Ashleigh Duffy, Leila Eamen, Anthony J. Jakeman, Timothy D. Jardine, H. S. Wheater, Randall J. Hunt, Holger R. Maier, Mohamed S. Abdelhamed, Mohammad Ghoreishi, Hoshin Gupta, Petra Döll, Enayat A. Moallemi, Fuad Yassin, Graham Strickert, Ehsan Nabavi, Juliane Mai, Yanping Li, Julie M. Thériault, Wenyan Wu, John W. Pomeroy, Martyn Clark, Grant Ferguson, Patricia Gober, Ximing Cai, Maureen G. Reed, Andrea Saltelli, Amin Elshorbagy, Mahdi Sedighkia, Julie Terry, Karl‐Erich Lindenschmidt, David M. Hannah, Kailong Li, Masoud Asadzadeh, Natasha Harvey, Hamid Moradkhani, Volker Grimm · 发表于：Water Resources Research · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1029/2024wr038088 · 被引用次数：42 · 研究领域：Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies、Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies、Water resources management and optimization

Abstract The notion of convergent and transdisciplinary integration, which is about braiding together different knowledge systems, is becoming the mantra of numerous initiatives aimed at tackling pressing water challenges. Yet, the transition from rhetoric to actual implementation is impeded by incongruence in semantics, methodologies, and discourse among disciplinary scientists and societal actors. Here, we embrace “integrated modeling”—both quantitatively and qualitatively—as a vital exploratory instrument to advance such integration, providing a means to navigate complexity and manage the uncertainty associated with understanding, diagnosing, predicting, and governing human‐water systems. From this standpoint, we confront disciplinary barriers by offering seven focused reviews and syntheses of existing and missing links across the frontiers distinguishing surface and groundwater hydrology, engineering, social sciences, economics, Indigenous and place‐based knowledge, and studies of other interconnected natural systems such as the atmosphere, cryosphere, and ecosphere. While there are, arguably, no bounds to the pursuit of inclusivity in representing the spectrum of natural and human processes around water resources, we advocate that integrated modeling can provide a focused approach to delineating the scope of integration, through the lens of three fundamental questions: (a) What is the modeling “purpose”? (b) What constitutes a sound “boundary judgment”? and (c) What are ...