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Michael Schoon

Michael Schoon

Associate Professor, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures

michael.schoon@asu.edu

480-965-0919

School of Sustainability
Arizona State University
PO Box 875502
Tempe, AZ 85287-5502

Titles

  • Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
  • Associate Professor, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures
  • Affiliated Faculty, Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation
  • Affiliated Faculty, Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Biography

Michael Schoon is an associate professor in Arizona State University's School of Sustainability, focusing on policy and governance in sustainable systems. His dissertation work at Indiana University's Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, focused on transboundary protected areas or Peace Parks in southern Africa which won the American Political Science Association's best dissertation award. Following that, he began as a research associate for the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, also at ASU, where he conducts further research on collaboration across borders from those between landowners, governmental agencies, and nation-states. For these projects, he looks at collaborative, cross-border institutional arrangements covering a range of environmental issues from biodiversity conservation to water sharing to fire management in the Arizona borderlands. His work combines multiple methodological approaches and looks at causal clusters for the formation and governance outcomes of institutional arrangements.

Schoon is active in international research communities on resilience, robustness, and complex systems through the Resilience Alliance and the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics. He serves on the board for IUCN's Transboundary Conservation Specialist Group, which advises academics and practitioners on large-scale, cross-border conservation. Finally, he serves as co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of the Commons, the leading journal in common-pool resource management.

Education

  • PhD, Environmental Policy, Public Policy, and International Relations, Indiana University, 2008
  • MBA, Indiana University, 1999
  • BS, Aerospace Engineering, University of Arizona, 1993
  • BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona, 1993

Expertise

External Links

Journal Articles

In Press

Bettis, A., M. Schoon and G. Blanchette. Enabling regional collaborative governance for sustainable recreation on public lands: the Verde Front. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2020.1753178. (link )

2022

Berbés-Blázquez, M., M. L. Schoon, K. Benessaiah, E. M. Bennett, G. D. Peterson and R. Ghimire. 2022. Resilience in the times of COVID: What the response to the COVID pandemic teaches us about resilience principles. Ecology and Society 27(2):Art. 16. DOI: 10.5751/ES-13223-270216. (link )

2017

Schoon, M. L., A. M. York, A. Sullivan and J. Baggio. 2017. The emergence of an environmental governance network: The case of the Arizona borderlands. Regional Environmental Change 17(3):677-689. DOI: 10.1007/s10113-016-1060-x. (link )

2015

Milkoreit, M., M. Moore, M. Schoon and C. Meek. 2015. Resilience scientists as change-makers—Growing the middle ground between science and advocacy?. Environmental Science & Policy DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2014.08.003. (link )

Schoon, M. and S. van der Leeuw. 2015. The shift toward social-ecological systems perspectives: insights into the human-nature relationship. Natures Sciences Sociétés 23(2):166-174. DOI: 10.1051/nss/2015034. (link )

2014

Norström, A., A. Dannenberg, G. McCarney, M. Milkoreit, F. Diekert, G. Engström, R. Fishman, J. Gars, E. Kyriakopoolou, V. Manoussi, K. Meng, M. Metian, M. Sanctuary, M. Schluter, M. L. Schoon, L. Schultz and M. Sjöstedt. 2014. Three necessary conditions for establishing effective Sustainable Development Goals in the Anthropocene. Ecology and Society 19(3):8. (link )

2013

Childs, C., A. M. York, D. White, M. L. Schoon and G. S. Bodner. 2013. Navigating a murky adaptive comanagement governance network: Agua Fria watershed, Arizona, USA. Ecology and Society 18(4):Art. 11. DOI: 10.5751/ES-05636-180411. (link )

2012

Biggs, R., M. Schluter, D. Biggs, E. L. Bohensky, S. BurnSilver, G. Cundill, V. Dakos, T. M. Daw, L. S. Evans, K. Kotschy, A. M. Leitch, C. Meek, A. Quinlan, C. Raudsepp-Heame, M. D. Robards, M. L. Schoon, L. Schultz and P. C. West. 2012. Toward principles for enhancing the resilience of ecosystem services. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 37:421-448. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-environ-051211-123836. (link )

Salau, K., M. L. Schoon, J. Baggio and M. A. Janssen. 2012. Varying effects of connectivity and dispersal on interacting species dynamics. Ecological Modelling 242(Sep):81-91. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.04.028. (link )

Schoon, M. L. and M. E. Cox. 2012. Understanding disturbances and responses in social-ecological systems. Society and Natural Resources 25(2):141-155.

2011

Baggio, J., K. Salau, M. A. Janssen, M. L. Schoon and O. Bodin. 2011. Landscape connectivity and predator-prey population dynamics. Landscape Ecology 26(1):33-45. DOI: DOI: 10.1007/s10980-010-9493-y. (link )

Biggs, D., R. Biggs, V. Dakos, R. J. Scholes and M. L. Schoon. 2011. Are we entering an era of concatenated global crises?. Ecology and Society 16(2):Art. 27. (link )

Robards, M., M. L. Schoon, C. Meek and N. Engle. 2011. The importance of social drivers in the resilient provision of ecosystem services. Global Environmental Change 21(2):522-529.

Schoon, M. L., C. Fabricius, J. M. Anderies and M. C. Nelson. 2011. Synthesis: Vulnerability, traps, and transformations – long-term perspectives from archaeology. Ecology and Society 16(2):Art. 24. (link )

Schoon, M. L. and A. M. York. 2011. Cooperation across boundaries: The role of political entrepreneurs in environmental collaboration. Journal of Natural Resource Policy Research 3(2):113-123.

York, A. M. and M. L. Schoon. 2011. Collaboration in the shadow of the Wall: Shifting power in the borderlands. Policy Sciences 44:345-365.

York, A. M. and M. L. Schoon. 2011. Collective action on the Western range: Coping with external and internal threats. International Journal of the Commons 5(2):388-409. (link )

2010

Dressler, W., B. Buscher, M. L. Schoon, D. Brockington, T. Hayes, C. Kull, J. McCarthy and K. Streshta. 2010. From hope to crisis and back again? A critical history of the Global CBNRM Narrative. Environmental Conservation 37(1):1-11.

2009

Cox, J., E. Ostrom, J. Walker, J. Castillo, E. Coleman, R. Holahan, M. L. Schoon and B. Steed. 2009. Trust in private and common property experiments. Southern Economics Journal 75(4):957-975.

2008

Buscher, B. and M. L. Schoon. 2008. Competition over conservation: Governance, the state and negotiating transfrontier conservation. Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy 12(2):33-59.

2006

Janssen, M. A., M. L. Schoon, K. Borner and W. Ke. 2006. Scholarly networks on resilience, vulnerability, and adaptation. Global Environmental Change 16(3):240-252.

Books

2015

Biggs, R., M. Schluter and M. L. Schoon eds. 2015. Principles for Building Resilience: Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Social-Ecological Systems. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781107082656.

Book Chapters

2015

Biggs, R., M. Schluter and M. L. Schoon. 2015. An introduction to the resilience approach and principles to sustain ecosystem services in social-ecological systems. Pp. 1-31 In: Biggs, R., M. Schluter and M. L. Schoon eds., Principles for Building Resilience: Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Social-Ecological Systems. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781107082656.

Schluter, M., R. Biggs, M. L. Schoon, M. D. Robards and J. M. Anderies. 2015. Reflections on building resilience: Interactions among principles and implications for governance. Pp. 251-282 In: Biggs, R., M. Schluter and M. L. Schoon eds., Principles for Building Resilience: Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Social-Ecological Systems. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781107082656.

Schoon, M. L., M. D. Robards, K. Brown, N. Engle, C. L. Meek and R. Biggs. 2015. Politics and the resilience of ecosystems services. Pp. 32-49 In: Biggs, R., M. Schluter and M. L. Schoon eds., Principles for Building Resilience: Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Social-Ecological Systems. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781107082656.

Schoon, M. L., M. D. Robards, C. Meek and V. Galaz. 2015. Principle 7: Promote polycentric governance systems. Pp. 226-250 In: Biggs, R., M. Schluter and M. L. Schoon eds., Principles for Building Resilience: Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Social-Ecological Systems. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781107082656.

Presentations

2015

Wiek, A., D. D. White and M. L. Schoon. 2015. Transformational Solutions for Water Sustainability - Combining Transition Experiments with Modeling. Presentation at the Transformations 2015, October 5, 2015, Stockholm, Sweden.

2014

Anderies, J. M., H. Eakin, M. A. Janssen, C. Redman, A. Barnett, J. Baggio, S. B. BurnSilver, D. Manuel-Navarrete, M. Schoon and S. van der Leeuw. 2014. Resilience thinking in an urbanizing world. Presentation at the Resilience 2014 Resilience and Development: Mobilizing for Transformation, 4-8 May 2014, Le Corum, Montpellier, France. (link )

Manuel-Navarrete, D. and M. L. Schoon. 2014. Boundaries in social-eecological systems. Presentation at the Resilience 2014 Resilience and Development: Mobilizing for Transformation, 3-8 May 2014, Le Corum, Montpellier, France. (link )