Michael Schoon

Bio

Michael Schoon is a professor at Arizona State University's School of Sustainability, specializing in policy and governance within sustainable systems. His research, awarded by the American Political Science Association, focuses on transboundary conservation in southern Africa. Currently, Dr. Schoon examines collaborative governance in Arizona, exploring how adaptive institutional arrangements impact social-ecological outcomes. He actively engages in complexity and resilience research, contributing to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s transboundary conservation specialists group. He is the co-director of the Resilience Alliance which is a network of resilience connecting resilience research between Europe and North America. Schoon's ongoing work aims to develop a generalizable theory of cross-border governance and collaboration in conservation and development projects.