2023 Volume 53 Pages 79-95
This overview paper discusses the potential of hydrology toward the creation of comprehensive knowledge which is necessary for sustainable society. This paper discusses four characters of water, history of hydrology, and the trend of integration between global environmental studies and sustainability studies. Moreover, this paper summarizes the relationship between the change of hydrology and the social transformations, such as industrialization, urbanization and green revolution. In addition to these, this paper discusses the hydrology as discipline, inter-discipline and trans-discipline, as well as natural hydrology, socio-hydrology and human hydrology. At the end, this paper overviews the potential of hydrology toward the creation of comprehensive knowledge, as a history embedded in the earth-human system.
