Marco A. Janssen

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.

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".

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.

Articles, a selection:

Anderies, John M., Marco A. Janssen, and Elinor Ostrom. "A framework to analyze the robustness of social-ecological systems from an institutional perspective". Ecology and society 9.1 (2004): 18. Young, O. R., Berkhout, F., Gallopin, G. C., Janssen, M. A., Ostrom, E., & van der Leeuw, S. (2006). "The globalization of socio-ecological systems: An agenda for scientific research". Global Environmental Change, 16(3), 304–316. Ostrom, Elinor, Marco A. Janssen, and John M. Anderies. "Going beyond panaceas". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104.39 (2007): 15176–15178.