Marco Janssen

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Marcus Alexander "Marco" Janssen (born 1969) is a Dutch American econometrician and Professor at the Arizona State University and Director of its Center for Behavior, Institutions, and the Environment. He is known for his work on the modelling of socio-ecological systems. [1] [2]

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Life and work

Janssen was born in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht. Janssen obtained his MA in Econometrics and Operations Research at Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1992. He received his PhD in Mathematics at Maastricht University in 1996 under the supervision of J. Rotmans and O.J. Vrieze with the dissertation "Meeting targets: tools to support integrated assessment modelling of global change". [3]

After his graduation, Janssen started his academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Spatial Economics of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In 2002, he moved to the United States, where he became a Research Scientist for the Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change (CIPEC) at Indiana University. In 2005, he moved to Arizona State University, where he started as an Assistant Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and became an Associate Professor in 2010, and a Professor at the School of Sustainability in 2015. From 2006 to 2010, he was also Associate Director of its Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, and since 2010, Director of this Center, which was renamed in 2015 into the Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment. [3]

Janssen research interests are in the field of the "interaction of behavioral, institutional and ecological processes... how people, their institutional rules and the environment they live in fit together in the past, present and the future, from local scales to the global scale," [3] and has developed "formal (computational) models of social and social-ecological systems, and perform controlled experiments in the lab and field, and study case study material to test the stylized models," [3] and particularly on agent-based modeling and institutional analysis.

Selected publications

Articles, a selection: [5]

References

  1. Liu, Jianguo, et al. "Complexity of coupled human and natural systems". Science 317.5844 (2007): 1513-1516.
  2. Berkes, Fikret. Sacred ecology. Routledge, 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Marco Janssen CV Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine , 2015 at marcojanssen.info.
  4. Other versions (including Spanish) available at: Sustaining The Commons.
  5. Google Scholar profile