Institutions, Voids, and Dependencies: Tracing the Designs and Robustness of Urban Water Systems
Urban water systems across the United States are facing a variety of challenges to existing supply and demand dynamics. Responding to these challenges in complex socio-environmental systems (SES) requires integrating various types of information – ranging from hydrologic data to political considerat...
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
OpenEdition
2023-08-01
|
| Series: | International Review of Public Policy |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/irpp/3455 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1841551186857033728 |
|---|---|
| author | Aaron Deslatte Elizabeth A. Koebele Lauren Bartels Adam Wiechman Sara Alonso Vicario Celeste Coughlin Desi Rybolt |
| author_facet | Aaron Deslatte Elizabeth A. Koebele Lauren Bartels Adam Wiechman Sara Alonso Vicario Celeste Coughlin Desi Rybolt |
| author_sort | Aaron Deslatte |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | Urban water systems across the United States are facing a variety of challenges to existing supply and demand dynamics. Responding to these challenges in complex socio-environmental systems (SES) requires integrating various types of information – ranging from hydrologic data to political considerations and beyond – into policy and management decisions. However, the design of institutions, i.e., the formal rules in which urban water utilities are embedded, impact the flow of information, especially across diverse actor groups critical to developing and implementing policy or programmatic responses to signal error. This study develops a Bayesian application of the Robustness of Coupled Infrastructure Systems (CIS) Framework to analyze how the institutional design of a major U.S. urban water system impacts information flow and, ultimately, the goal of resource-delivery robustness. We utilize process-tracing along with an institutional analysis approach called the Institutional Grammar Tool (IGT) to parse formal institutions into their semantic and syntactic components and assess how they may influence a system’s capacity to respond to changing stressors. Our findings have important implications for the (re)design of institutions that better facilitate information flow among key policy actors and support policy changes that promote sustainable long-term urban water supply. |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj-art-96f7fa24c4aa4a99a9977d12fb955fdb |
| institution | Kabale University |
| issn | 2679-3873 2706-6274 |
| language | English |
| publishDate | 2023-08-01 |
| publisher | OpenEdition |
| record_format | Article |
| series | International Review of Public Policy |
| spelling | doaj-art-96f7fa24c4aa4a99a9977d12fb955fdb2025-01-09T16:26:10ZengOpenEditionInternational Review of Public Policy2679-38732706-62742023-08-01518022210.4000/irpp.3455Institutions, Voids, and Dependencies: Tracing the Designs and Robustness of Urban Water SystemsAaron DeslatteElizabeth A. KoebeleLauren BartelsAdam WiechmanSara Alonso VicarioCeleste CoughlinDesi RyboltUrban water systems across the United States are facing a variety of challenges to existing supply and demand dynamics. Responding to these challenges in complex socio-environmental systems (SES) requires integrating various types of information – ranging from hydrologic data to political considerations and beyond – into policy and management decisions. However, the design of institutions, i.e., the formal rules in which urban water utilities are embedded, impact the flow of information, especially across diverse actor groups critical to developing and implementing policy or programmatic responses to signal error. This study develops a Bayesian application of the Robustness of Coupled Infrastructure Systems (CIS) Framework to analyze how the institutional design of a major U.S. urban water system impacts information flow and, ultimately, the goal of resource-delivery robustness. We utilize process-tracing along with an institutional analysis approach called the Institutional Grammar Tool (IGT) to parse formal institutions into their semantic and syntactic components and assess how they may influence a system’s capacity to respond to changing stressors. Our findings have important implications for the (re)design of institutions that better facilitate information flow among key policy actors and support policy changes that promote sustainable long-term urban water supply.https://journals.openedition.org/irpp/3455robustnessresiliencecoupled infrastructure systemsurban water managementsustainability |
| spellingShingle | Aaron Deslatte Elizabeth A. Koebele Lauren Bartels Adam Wiechman Sara Alonso Vicario Celeste Coughlin Desi Rybolt Institutions, Voids, and Dependencies: Tracing the Designs and Robustness of Urban Water Systems International Review of Public Policy robustness resilience coupled infrastructure systems urban water management sustainability |
| title | Institutions, Voids, and Dependencies: Tracing the Designs and Robustness of Urban Water Systems |
| title_full | Institutions, Voids, and Dependencies: Tracing the Designs and Robustness of Urban Water Systems |
| title_fullStr | Institutions, Voids, and Dependencies: Tracing the Designs and Robustness of Urban Water Systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Institutions, Voids, and Dependencies: Tracing the Designs and Robustness of Urban Water Systems |
| title_short | Institutions, Voids, and Dependencies: Tracing the Designs and Robustness of Urban Water Systems |
| title_sort | institutions voids and dependencies tracing the designs and robustness of urban water systems |
| topic | robustness resilience coupled infrastructure systems urban water management sustainability |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/irpp/3455 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT aarondeslatte institutionsvoidsanddependenciestracingthedesignsandrobustnessofurbanwatersystems AT elizabethakoebele institutionsvoidsanddependenciestracingthedesignsandrobustnessofurbanwatersystems AT laurenbartels institutionsvoidsanddependenciestracingthedesignsandrobustnessofurbanwatersystems AT adamwiechman institutionsvoidsanddependenciestracingthedesignsandrobustnessofurbanwatersystems AT saraalonsovicario institutionsvoidsanddependenciestracingthedesignsandrobustnessofurbanwatersystems AT celestecoughlin institutionsvoidsanddependenciestracingthedesignsandrobustnessofurbanwatersystems AT desirybolt institutionsvoidsanddependenciestracingthedesignsandrobustnessofurbanwatersystems |