Michael Schoon is an assistant 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 conservation and Peace Parks in southern Africa, which won the American Political Science Association’s best dissertation award. His current work on collaborative governance across a variety of environmental dilemmas in Arizona combines multiple methodological approaches and looks at how adaptive institutional arrangements affect social-ecological outcomes. He is active in the complexity and resilience research communities and in IUCN’s transboundary conservation specialists group.
Michael Shoon's ongoing research builds on his doctoral work, focusing at a theoretical level on cross-boundary collective action dilemmas and at a practical level on the design of collaborative governance arrangements that transcend political borders and putting them into effect on the ground. The goal is to push toward a generalizable theory of cross-border, cross-scale governance and link this back to large-scale environmental management. In the process, he tries to understand how to implement these cross-border governance arrangements and collaborative efforts, create institutional robustness or long-enduring institutional arrangements, and understand how to design sustainable systems in coupled social-ecological environments. Professor Shoon pursues this research agenda through four ongoing programs. First, he leads a project at the local and regional level in the Arizona borderlands that uses social network analysis and spatially-explicit institutional analysis to help develop a better understanding of cross-border governance, focusing on environmental management issues in the face of regional climate changes and the ongoing border crisis – impacts that cross political boundaries. The second spoke in the research plan brings together common-pool resource scholars with leading international regime researchers in the study of large-scale commons to see how both sets of theories scale up and down. In this, he leads a research team that is in the process of coding cases and building a database to enable statistical analysis and combine quantitative and qualitative analyses to examine cross-scale environmental governance. A third research program uses agent-based modeling to study the effects of environmental management with multiple objectives in a network of linked habitats. Fourth, he continues to collaborate with researchers in southern Africa on a number of large-scale conservation/development projects in the region with a focus on governance across borders and collaboration in general.
Books
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (S) = student paper
Book Chapters
Summer 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 484 | Internship |
SOS 595 | Continuing Registration |
SOS 596 | Capstone: Scientific Paper |
SOS 795 | Continuing Registration |
Spring 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 220 | Systems Thinking |
SOS 493 | Honors Thesis |
SOS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
SOS 595 | Continuing Registration |
SOS 596 | Capstone: Scientific Paper |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 795 | Continuing Registration |
SOS 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 220 | Systems Thinking |
SOS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SOS 493 | Honors Thesis |
SOS 525 | SETS Domains and Interfaces |
SOS 595 | Continuing Registration |
SOS 596 | Capstone: Scientific Paper |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 795 | Continuing Registration |
SOS 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 484 | Internship |
SOS 595 | Continuing Registration |
SOS 596 | Capstone: Scientific Paper |
SOS 795 | Continuing Registration |
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 591 | Seminar |
SOS 596 | Capstone: Scientific Paper |
BIO 598 | Special Topics |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 220 | Systems Thinking |
SOS 525 | SETS Domains and Interfaces |
SOS 595 | Continuing Registration |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 795 | Continuing Registration |
SOS 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 484 | Internship |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 493 | Honors Thesis |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 394 | Special Topics |
SOS 484 | Internship |
SOS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SOS 493 | Honors Thesis |
SOS 591 | Seminar |
BIO 598 | Special Topics |
SOS 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 220 | Systems Thinking |
SOS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SOS 525 | SETS Domains and Interfaces |
SOS 592 | Research |
SOS 790 | Reading and Conference |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 321 | Policy & Gov in Sustain Systms |
SOS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SOS 590 | Reading and Conference |
SOS 790 | Reading and Conference |
SOS 792 | Research |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 220 | Systems Thinking |
SOS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SOS 493 | Honors Thesis |
SOS 525 | SETS Domains and Interfaces |
SOS 592 | Research |
SOS 790 | Reading and Conference |
SOS 792 | Research |