IAHS Panta Rhei Synthesis Book ‘Coevolution and Prediction of Coupled Human–Water Systems’ is published

[Heidi Kreibich]

Dear colleagues and friends,

After the publication of the Panta Rhei synthesis paper in April 2025 (open access: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02626667.2025.2469762) it is my great pleasure to announce the publication of the Panta Rhei synthesis book (open access: https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/edited-volume/9780443417368/coevolution-and-prediction-of-coupled-human-water-systems)

The book ‘Coevolution and Prediction of Coupled Human–Water Systems: A Sociohydrologic Synthesis of Change in Hydrology and Society’ represents the culmination of the Panta Rhei scientific decade (2013–2022), a global effort to understand and predict dynamic interactions between people and water.

Led by editors Fuqiang Tian (Tsinghua University), Jing Wei (Tsinghua University), Melissa Haeffner (Portland State University), and Heidi Kreibich (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences), the book brings together contributions from 160 authors across natural and social sciences, supported by a distinguished 27-member Editorial Advisory Board. The book provides:

·         A holistic sociohydrological framework

·         Integrative theories, methods, and data bridging hydrology and social sciences

·         Deep dives into major human–water systems: floods, droughts, agriculture, transboundary rivers, and global teleconnections

·         Worldwide case studies illustrating emergent phenomena

·         A grand synthesis and future vision for science and practice.

Please check these important outputs of the IAHS Panta Rhei community and use these for your research and teaching!

Best regards

Heidi Kreibich

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EGU Natural Hazards Division President
President of the International Commission on Human-Water Feedbacks (IAHS)
Paper: 
The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management. Nature https://rdcu.be/cSYHo
Exploring the limits and gaps of flood adaptation. Nature Water https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-024-00274-x
Toward impact-based monitoring of drought and its cascading hazards. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-023-00457-2