Preparing for Uncertainty
Assessing
What is the Greater Los Angeles County Integrated Water Management Plan?
Externally Developed Framework
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How well does the GLAC IRWM Leadership Committee work together to prepare for unknown conditions?
This assessment is an adaptation of a tested framework, Adaptive Water Management and Policy Learning in a Changing Climate by Huntjens. A group of experts (the GLAC IRWM Leadership Committee and other regional stakeholders) were asked to evaluate the Los Angeles Area based on characteristics of an Integrated and Adaptive Framework.
Internally Developed Framework
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What are the barriers to achieving an adaptive and integrated GLAC IRWM Leadership Committee?
Findingings
Two-Part Assessment
The Greater Los Angeles County Region Integrated Regional Water Management Plan (GLAC IRWMP) serves as the blueprint to facilitate interjurisdictional and interagency regional cooperation for water resource planning. Through a leadership committee, local agencies, organizations, cities, and county governments are working together to implement its goals and objectives. The IRWM process is inclusive, open, and collaborative, but are there opportunities to improve? How d0 the experts score the GLAC IRWM Leadership Committee?
Proactiveness
37%
Overall Average
Expand the Feedback Loop Currently, the GLAC IRWM Leadership Committee plans, implements, plans, and so on. Monitoring projects, assessing results and re-incorporating results into new plans improves future decisions and achieve current goals.
Develop & Maintain a Performance Assessment Select indicators that are easily traceable, show change, and that the committee can influence. The experts surveyed identified meeting attendance, resource distribution, and diverse and multi-benefit projects as strong indicators a collaborative and innovative committee.
57%
Of all of the Integrated and Adaptive Water Management Charactersitics, the survey finds GLAC IRWM Leadership Committee strongest in Constructive Conflict Resolution. Likewise, the survey finds the committee needs most improvement in Proactiveness and Problem Anticipation.
Which indicators best show adaptive and integrated water resource management?
Pursue Additional Resources for Fulltime Staff GLAC IRWM Leadership Committee is made up of agency representatives, non-profits and other stakeholders. This diverse group is essential for collaboration. However, this limits committment. A small fulltime staff can support the committee with tracking progress on goals.
67%1
Types of Projects Inclusive Decision-Making
56%1
Evaluation Process
56%1
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This framework was developed by asking the Leadership Committee and water management regime how to evaluate collaboration and innovation within the leadership committee structure.
72%
Conflict Resolution
Recommendations
LA’s Water Management Regime
calculated by number of respondents that referenced each category
Open-ended input from the survey respondents shows Types of Proects, Inclusive Decision-Making, and Evaluation Process were the most commonly referenced indicataors of adaptive and integrative water management regimes.
Physical Challenges for LA’s Water Management
Flooding NPR, Glendora, CA
Channelization
Drought Washington Post, Glendale, CA
CBS Local, LA River
Variability NASA, CA, 2013
NASA, CA, 2014
Julie Castro, MURP 2014 | Faculty Advisor -Walker Wells, AICP | Client - Council for Watershed Health