Cultivating resiliency through system shock: the Southern California metropolitan water management system as a complex adaptive system
本研究从复杂性理论视角分析南加州水管理系统如何应对严重干旱引发的系统冲击，揭示自组织过程如何通过吸收空间冲击来增强系统韧性，对水资源规划者和环境管理者有参考价值。
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.