“…Thirdly, effort is focused on methodology: robust methods are developed to provide a compromise between applicability and accuracy, particularly in the field of rainfall-runoff modelling (Camarasa & Tilford, 2002;Benkaci Ali & Dechemi, 2004;Nasri et al, 2004b;Cudennec et al, 2005;Hreiche et al, 2007;Moussa et al, 2007;McIntyre et al, 2007;Ouachani et al, 2007;Chaponnière et al, 2007), which is a major concern in semi-arid and arid basins (Pilgrim et al, 1988;Hughes, 1995;Sharma & Murthy, 1998;Wheater et al, 2006); complementary methods are combined, particularly in hydrogeology (Kamel et al, 2006;Bouri et al, 2007;Leduc et al 2007;Fadlelmawla et al, 2008), or between hydrological and social sciences (Barriendos & Rodrigo, 2006;Brewer et al, 2007;Martín-Rosales et al, 2007;Romagny & Riaux, 2007); models and analyses are coupled, for instance between surface water and groundwater hydrology (Rozos et al, 2004;Bouri et al, 2007;Kingumbi et al, 2007), and between stochastic and dynamic approaches (Hreiche et al, 2007;Kingumbi et al, 2007;Lajili-Ghezal, 2007); and comparisons are developed to identify specificities (Möller & Stanhill, 2007;Romagny & Riaux, 2007).…”