Resilient Governance of Water Regimes in Variable Climates: Lessons from California’s Hydro-Ecological Zones
| Autor: | Jeff Romm, Inger Elisabeth Måren, Esther Conrad |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0106 biological sciences
lcsh:Hydraulic engineering Resource (biology) 0208 environmental biotechnology Geography Planning and Development 02 engineering and technology Aquatic Science resilient water governance 01 natural sciences Biochemistry lcsh:Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes lcsh:TC1-978 Streamflow mediating networks Resilience (network) Adaptation (computer science) high-variability climates structural segregation Water Science and Technology lcsh:TD201-500 Government Ecology Corporate governance 020801 environmental engineering 010601 ecology Variable (computer science) Business Diversity (business) |
| Zdroj: | Water, Vol 10, Iss 2, p 196 (2018) Water; Volume 10; Issue 2; Pages: 196 |
| ISSN: | 2073-4441 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/w10020196 |
| Popis: | Highly variable water regimes, such as California’s, contain distinctive problems in the pursuit of secure timing, quantities and distributions of highly variable flows. Their formal and informal systems of water control must adapt rapidly to forceful and unpredictable swings on which the survival of diversified ecosystems, expansive settlement patterns and market-driven economies depends. What constitutes resilient water governance in these high-variability regimes? Three bodies of theory—state resource government, resilience and social mediation—inform our pursuit of governance that adapts effectively to these challenges. Using evidence drawn primarily from California research and participation in the policy and practice of water governance, we identify two stark barriers to learning, adaptation and resilience in high-variability conditions: (1) the sharp divide between modes of governance for ecological (protective) and for social (distributive) resilience and (2) the separation between predominant paradigms of water governance in “basins” (shared streamflow) and in “plains” (minimized social risk). These sources of structural segregation block adaptive processes and diminish systemic resilience, creating need for mediating spaces that increase permeability, learning and adaptation across structural barriers. We propose that the magnitude and diversity of need are related directly to the degree of hydro-climatic variability. |
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