Cultivating resiliency through system shock: the Southern California metropolitan water management system as a complex adaptive system

Jack W. Meek and Kevin S. Marshall

Public Management Review, 2018, vol. 20, issue 7, 1088-1104

Abstract: This study analyses the water management system in Southern California through the lens of complexity theory as it responds to system stressors and shock caused by severe and sustained draught. The study is grounded on the thesis that self-organization in the complex space of the water governance system creates the capacity to absorb spatial shock, and through this absorption process the space experiences resiliency. This paper identifies the attributes of spatial complexity of the Southern California metropolitan water management system, and analyses a spatial shock case that ignited stakeholder action that nurtured, promoted and furthered resiliency within the system.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2017.1364408

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