Hydrological Sciences

Co-benefits of Nature-based Solutions: what we know and what we should know

Joy Ommer January 18, 2023

Green roof in Paris (J. Ommer)

Nature-based Solutions are on everyone’s lips in the view of their risk reduction potential but also their social, economic, and environmental side effects (so-called co-benefits). But how significant are these co-benefits? What are NBS? Nature-based Solutions (or in short NBS) are an umbrella term for ecosystem-based solutions to counteract societal challenges such as climate change, disaster, bi ...[Read More]

2022 Recap of the HS Blog

Editorial Team December 28, 2022

Thinking about the past year, one of the highs of the year was definitely seeing the EGU General Assembly back to Vienna in May. The first-ever fully hybrid EGU meeting was a great success with over 12,000 presentations. Most of all, it was great seeing our hydrological sciences community meeting in person again. Many constraints prevented us from having all the features we love in the GA meeting, ...[Read More]

Scientific disobedience: where are our catchment boundaries?

Sylvain Kuppel December 16, 2022

Road block in central Munich (Odeonplatz) on Oct 26th, 2022. Photo: Scientist Rebellion

On the night preceding Halloween, somewhere in the main police station of Munich, 15 people appeared one by one before a judge of the local court who notified them their deprivation of liberty, deemed as “indispensable in order to prevent the imminent commission/continuation of a criminal/orderly offence of considerable importance for the general public”. For most of them this preventive custody w ...[Read More]

Imagining Water Differently: Reflections from the Perspective of Critical Geography

Daanish Mustafa November 16, 2022

A canyon the right banks of the Indus River upstream from the sight of the proposed Kalabagh dam.

For us humans, the world, before it is lived, has to be imagined. There is, however, something wrong with the way we have imagined the world if we consider where we are today, in particular in the face of global climate change. Let’s review how we have imagined water from the point of view of critical geography. How we have imagined water so far So far, we have imagined water through the lens of t ...[Read More]