The article discusses the challenges and opportunities facing interdisciplinary attempts to produce knowledge about water and lake-related processes. It examines key aspects of the long-standing debates on this topic and discusses the state of the art providing empirical examples. The article argues that, notwithstanding the significant progress achieved in disciplines and fields of knowledge relevant to water-related research, the development of interdisciplinary coordination, particularly between the physical–natural and the social sciences remains underdeveloped. However, the fact that the extreme global crisis affecting water and life in the planet, more generally, has a primarily anthropogenic nature suggests that there are urgent reasons to promote greater collaboration between different forms of knowledge relevant to these processes. The main objective is contributing to raise awareness about obstacles and opportunities for enhanced interdisciplinary coordination in these areas, to tackle the urgent problems facing the socio-hydrosphere.

本文讨论了跨学科尝试产生有关水和湖泊相关过程的知识所面临的挑战和机遇。它研究了有关该主题的长期争论的关键方面，并讨论了提供经验示例的最新技术。文章认为，尽管与水相关的研究相关学科和知识领域取得了重大进展，但跨学科协调的发展，特别是自然科学和社会科学之间的协调仍然不够发达。然而，更广泛地影响地球上的水和生命的极端全球危机主要具有人为性质，这一事实表明，有迫切的理由促进与这些过程相关的不同形式的知识之间加强合作。主要目标是帮助提高人们对加强这些领域跨学科协调的障碍和机遇的认识，以解决社会水圈面临的紧迫问题。