2014 Volume 44 Issue 2 Pages 79-95
It has been passed 26 years after the establishment of Japanese Association of Hydrological Sciences, and research directions and social demands for scientific researches have changed largely during this quarter-century. The paper mentions the desired direction of the hydrologic science in a future according to the recent world trends regarding the relationship of the science and society as well as describing the history of the establishment of Japanese Association of Hydrological Sciences briefly. As a new scientific research framework for foreseeable 10 years from 2013 to 2022, ICSU and ISSC have established the “Future Earth” and IAHS the “Panta Rhei-Everything Flows” as the IAHS Scientific Decade 2013-2022. The international project on “Groundwater Governance” programmed by GEF, UNESCO-IHP and other international organizations is now implementing. From those world tendencies, it can be recognized that it is necessary the establishment of the “Science for Society” which takes a serious view of the relation between the science and human-society systems instead of former the “Science for Science”. It was mentioned that now clamed for the hydrologic science is to create a “new wisdom” and to establish its methodology coping with a today’s trend of the world.
