Abstract
This study characterizes the resilience of organizations undertaking river basin governance and recovery. The Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program (UCREFRP) and the Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program (LCR-MSCP) are defined in this study as polycentric organizations nested within larger institutional mechanisms governing the Colorado River Basin. This study utilizes an environmental disturbance-organizational response framework to characterize organizational resilience—and uses attitudinal diversity (characterized by attitudes toward agendas) as the measurable metric. Environmental disturbances are defined as either press or pulse and categorized as either institutional or biophysical in nature. Four types of attitudinal diversity metrics are utilized—supportive, clarifying, conditional, and critical. Results indicate that institutional press and pulse events generated anticipatory resilience capabilities along with some adaptive capabilities for the organizations. However, the biophysical press and pulse events only reveal coping capabilities and very little adaptive capabilities. With the recent Colorado River shortage declaration, it is critical for the programs to build anticipatory as well as adaptive capabilities for optimal response to biophysical press events.
Highlights
Governance at the river basin scale started formally with the application of the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) approach, the first notable example of which is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in 1933 (GWP, 2002)
Attitudinal diversity variation tends to lessen over time in the Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program (UCREFRP) case
The first part concisely discusses the links between attitudinal diversity and organizational resilience capabilities and how this process has been operationalized in the study
Summary
Governance at the river basin scale started formally with the application of the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) approach, the first notable example of which is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in 1933 (GWP, 2002). This was followed by the establishment of the United States Bureau of Reclamation that was instrumental in facilitating the subsidized expansion of irrigated agriculture in the Western part of the US as well as construction of large public works (Snellen and Schrevel, 2004).
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