This Research Topic is part of a series of article collections published within Frontiers in Water for the the 2nd International Sociohydrology Conference.

The other themes within this series are:
- Participatory and Just Governance: Empowering Local and Indigenous Communities
- Pluralizing Water Knowledge for Inclusive Water Governance: Meaning-making, Co-creation and Transdisciplinarity
- Expanding Sociohydrology: Embracing Spatial Heterogeneity and Emerging Nexuses
- Mainstreaming Sociohydrology: Towards Designing and Implementing Management Interventions

Watch the Topic Editors discuss the themes of the Research Topics and preview the conference at a recent Townhall: Expanding and Mainstreaming Sociohydrology Toward Transdisciplinary Praxis

To understand the complex interactions between human and water systems, this theme explores archetypes of socio-hydrological phenomena across spatiotemporal scales. By integrating comparative studies in these regions and phenomena, this theme aims to gain a deeper understanding of past and present human-water dynamics and their changes. It fosters a comprehensive classification and comparison research framework. By integrating the knowledge gained, archetypes that encompass common interaction patterns and collective resilience to extreme events such as floods and droughts can be identified.

This theme includes:
i) historical processes and regime shifts of human-water interactions and their regional comparison.
ii) identify new phenomena, investigate/unpack phenomena through modeling/ narratives, or classify/synthesize existing phenomena into universal archetypes through comparative studies.
iii) provide generic/transferable insights into resilience of systems witnessing an archetype.
iv) identify sociohydrological dynamics across spatiotemporal scales.

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Comparative Sociohydrology Across Places and Scales: Aiming Towards Synthesis