When Good Waters Go Bad

2022 ◽  
pp. 1044-1061
Author(s):  
Lynn A. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Water Policy ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Futures Studies ◽  
Policy Action ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Changing Times ◽  
Educational Paradigms

This chapter offers commentary on adaptation and resilience to stresses on water systems in a potentially catastrophic future. While considering futures studies as an integral part of science education is not new, reorganizing knowledge and its deployment to equip future leaders to address the complexity, paradox and unpredictability of problem requires new educational paradigms. Youth are poised as agents of change in a collaborative, networked, and complexity-embracing future. Through exploring the changes in waters due to climate change and human activity, and what those changes may mean for developing and maintaining resilience in the postnormal future, a complex adaptive systems (CAS) framework guides new alternatives for education and water policy action in these changing times and within the broad goals of sustainability.

When Good Waters Go Bad

2018 ◽  
pp. 22-45
Author(s):  
Lynn A. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Water Policy ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Futures Studies ◽  
Policy Action ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Changing Times ◽  
Educational Paradigms

This chapter offers commentary on adaptation and resilience to stresses on water systems in a potentially catastrophic future. While considering futures studies as an integral part of science education is not new, reorganizing knowledge and its deployment to equip future leaders to address the complexity, paradox and unpredictability of problem requires new educational paradigms. Youth are poised as agents of change in a collaborative, networked, and complexity-embracing future. Through exploring the changes in waters due to climate change and human activity, and what those changes may mean for developing and maintaining resilience in the postnormal future, a complex adaptive systems (CAS) framework guides new alternatives for education and water policy action in these changing times and within the broad goals of sustainability.

scholarly journals Building Resilient Regions: Complex Adaptive Systems and the Role of Policy Intervention

2014 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Bristow ◽  
Adrian Healy
Keyword(s):  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
National Level ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Policy Intervention ◽  
Economic Resilience ◽  
Policy Action ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Critical Dimensions ◽  
Complex Adaptive

Abstract The notion of resilience is being utilised by an increasing number of authors keen to understand the dynamics of local and regional economies and particularly how they deal with economic shocks and recessionary crises. Within the burgeoning literature however, fairly limited attention has been paid to date to developing a robust conceptual understanding of what role policy-makers, particularly at sub-national level, might play in building economic resilience in regions. The purpose of this paper is to address this gap. Drawing on resilience literatures which employ a complex adaptive systems perspective, the paper seeks to develop a conceptual framework within which policy action, particularly at the subnational level, can be theorised and understood. It identifies three critical dimensions which frame the role and scope for policy intervention in the management of regional economic resilience: the modes and structures of governance, the types of policy interventions which help build resilience, and the horizons or timings for appropriate intervention. The paper concludes by considering what this framing means for the nature and scope of subnational policy intervention for regional economic resilience.

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