Adam Wiechman

Graduate Student, ESSA Graduate Grantees

Graduate Student, Biodesign Center for Environmental Health Engineering

ahwiechm@asu.edu

Student Information

Graduate Student
Sustainability (Complex Adaptive Systems Science)
College of Global Futures

Long Bio

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, On-Tenure

Adam brings a dynamical systems approach to public infrastructure challenges and explore the interconnected considerations that drive investment. My recent work uses the example of urban water systems in the United States to understand how institutional design contributes to the resilience and distributional equity of them. My methodological approaches include agent-based modeling, dynamical systems modeling, institutional analysis, network analysis, and qualitative content analysis.

Education

B.S. Environmental Engineering, University of Notre Dame (2020)

B.A. Political Science, University of Notre Dame (2020)

ORCID Profile ID

https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1263-1251

Research Interests

Problem Focus: urban water and public infrastructure politics

Theoretical Background: policy process theory, institutional analysis, polycentric governance, resilience & robustness, collaborative goverance

Methodological Experience: dynamical systems modeling, agent-based modeling, interview and survey design and analysis, participatory modeling

Research Group

Graduate Research Assistant, Systems Modeler, Transition Dynamics in Integrated Urban Water Systems

Publications

Wiechman, A., Alonso Vicario, S., Anderies, J. M., Garcia, M., Azizi, K., & Hornberger, G. (2024). Institutional Dynamics Impact the Response of Urban Socio-Hydrologic Systems to Supply Challenges. Water Resources Research, 60(2), e2023WR035565. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR035565

Deslatte, A., Koebele, E., Bartels, L., Wiechman, A., Alonso Vicario, S., Coughlin, C, Rybolt, D. (2023) Institutions, Voids, and Dependencies: Tracing the Designs and Robustness of Urban Water Systems. International Review of Public Policy 5:2.

Wiechman, A., Alonso-Vicario, S., Koebele, E. (2023) The Role of Intermediate Collaborative Forums in Polycentric Environmental Governance. Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, muad017. https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muad017

Bertassello, L., Muller, M.F., Wiechman, A., Penny, G., Tuninetti, M., Muller-Itten, M. (2023) Food demand displaced by global refugee migration influences water use in already water stressed countries. Nature Communications 14, 2706. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38117-0

Research Activity

Wiechman, A., Anderies, J.M., Garcia, M. A General Model of the Political Dynamics and Institutional Trade-offs in Large Public Infrastructure Systems

Wiechman, A., Koebele, E., Garcia, M., Anderies, J.M. The Inclusion-Consensus Trade-off for Intermediate Forums in Polycentric Environmental Governance: A Comparison of Water User Associations in Arizona

Wiechman, A., Deslatte, A., Koebele, E., Anderies, J.M., Garcia, M. Hornberger, G. Institutional Design and the Robustness of Infrastructure Investment