title: [Socio-hydrology: A review].
abstract: Socio-hydrology is an interdiscipline of hydrology, nature, society and humanity. It mainly explores the two-way feedbacks of coupled human-water system and its dynamic mechanism of co-evolution, and makes efforts to solve the issues that human faces today such as sustainable utilization of water resources. Starting from the background, formation process, and fundamental concept of socio-hydrology, this paper summarized the features of socio-hydrology. The main research content of socio-hydrology was reduced to three aspects: The tradeoff in coupled human-water system, interests in water resources management and virtual water research in coupled human-water system. And its differences as well as relations with traditional hydrology, eco-hydrology and hydro-sociology were dwelled on. Finally, with hope to promote the development of socio-hydrology researches in China, the paper made prospects for the development of the subject from following aspects: Completing academic content and deepening quantitative research, focusing on scale studies of socio-hydrology, fusing socio-hydrology and eco-hydrology.
authors.forename: Jing-yi
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Wen-wu
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Xue-ning
authors.initials: XN
authors.lastname: Fang
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D006801:Humans; D062070:Hydrology; D014867:Water; D062066:Water Resources
chemical_list: D014867:Water