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

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  • Jack W. Meek
  • Kevin S. Marshall

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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.

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  • Jack W. Meek & Kevin S. Marshall, 2018. "Cultivating resiliency through system shock: the Southern California metropolitan water management system as a complex adaptive system," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(7), pages 1088-1104, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpxmxx:v:20:y:2018:i:7:p:1088-1104
    DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2017.1364408
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    1. Hua Xing & Shuhong Mo & Xiaoyan Liang & Ying Li, 2021. "Water Resources Allocation Based on Complex Adaptive System Theory in the Inland River Irrigation District," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(15), pages 1-19, July.

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