Marco Janssen

About

Marco Janssen is a professor in the School of Sustainability and serves as the director for the Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment. His research focuses on how people govern shared resources, including water, energy, and critical minerals, across various contexts such as laboratories, field studies, cyberspace, and outer space. He employs a combination of behavioral experiments, agent-based modeling, and case study analyses to address questions related to resource management and collective decision-making. His applied work includes collaborating with NGOs to test behavioral games as intervention tools for groundwater issues in rural India and engaging with artists to explore collective decision-making in extreme conditions like water scarcity in the southwestern United States or habitats on Mars. Janssen is also committed to increasing the accessibility of research and educational materials through open science and open access initiatives.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Economics
• Business
• Political Science
• Computer Security
• Microeconomics
• Physics
• Psychology
• Public economics
• Biology

Selected publications

• On code sharing and model documentation of published individual and agent-based models

  Environmental Modelling & Software · 2020 · 57 citations

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• Exploring non-linear transition pathways in social-ecological systems

  Scientific Reports · 2020 · 56 citations

  Tipping point dynamics are fundamental drivers for sustainable transition pathways of social-ecological systems (SES). Current research predominantly analyzes how crossing tipping points causes regime shifts, however, the analysis of potential transition pathways from these social and ecological tipping points is often overlooked. In this paper, we analyze transition pathways and the potential outcomes that these may lead to via a stylized model of a system composed of interacting agents exploit…

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• The role of institutional entrepreneurs and informal land transactions in Mexico City’s urban expansion

  World Development · 2021 · 53 citations

  Informal urban expansion, or conversion of land to urban land uses, outpaces formal urbanization in the developing world. Understanding why this informality exists and persists is essential to counteract characterizations that it is chaotic and ungovernable. This research examines who shapes the informal arrangements developed to meet unmet housing needs that expand the urban footprint, from social housing projects to concentrated squatting in Mexico City metropolis from 2000 to 2016. Institutio…

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• How do resource mobility and group size affect institutional arrangements for rule enforcement? A qualitative comparative analysis of fishing groups in South Korea

  Ecological Economics · 2020 · 20 citations

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• Governing Outer Space as a Commons is Critical for Addressing Commons on Earth

  International Journal of the Commons · 2024-01-01 · 8 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  Editorial for the special issue on “Commons in Space”.

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

Recent grants

• SoCS: Tipping Collective Action in Social Networks

  NSF · $500k · 2012–2017

• The Dynamics of Rules in Commons Dilemmas

  NSF · $587k · 2005–2010

• Scaling up commons dilemma experiments for research and education

  NSF · $518k · 2021–2025

Frequent coauthors

• Элинор Остром

  53 shared

• John M. Anderies

  Asian Disaster Preparedness Center

  52 shared

• Jacopo A. Baggio

  Hospital Universitario Santa Cristina

  30 shared

• Wander Jager

  28 shared

• François Bousquet

  Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier

  22 shared

• Allen Lee

  Arizona State University

  21 shared

• Michael Schoon

  Arizona State University

  21 shared

• Juan-Camilo Cárdenas

  13 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  Maastricht University

  1996

• M.A., Econometrics and Operations Research

  Erasmus University, Rotterdam

  1992

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