John M Anderies

Biographic Data

ID114185
NAMEJohn M Anderies
GIVEN NAMESJohn M
FAMILY NAMEAnderies
SIGNATUREANDERIES J M
AFFILIATIONSArizona State University
ORCID0000-0002-0138-8655
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS82
TOTAL CITATIONS918
AUTHOR COUNT82
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX15

  • Managing the Messy Middle: Toward a Typology of Dilemmas in Nature-Based Recreation

    Open AccessBrenna Jungers, John M AnderiesARTICLEInternational Journal of the…2026

    Nature-based recreation systems are complex social-ecological systems (SESs) characterized by competing uses, heterogeneous users, and dynamic feedbacks. As participation grows and recreational modes diversify, managers face mounting challenges in sustaining both ecological integrity and user experience. This paper operationalizes the Coupled Infrastructure Systems Framework (CISF) to develop a systems-based typology of recreation management dile…

  • Organizational Strategies for System Robustness: How Managers Navigate the Institutional Architecture of Complex Systems

    Open AccessAdam Wiechman, Aaron Deslatte et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Administration…2026

    Many public managers oversee complex systems that require them to navigate multifaceted organizational decision-making processes. While there is general recognition that institutions constrain information processing, rigorous study of how particular institutional designs influence the strategies used by organizations to process information and act on the systems they oversee is limited by existing theory and methodological approaches. We propose …

  • The Inclusion Trade‐Off: Comparing the Design and Functionality of Collaborative Governance Forums

    Open AccessAdam Wiechman, Elizabeth A Koebele et al.ARTICLEPolicy Studies Journal2026References: 65

    Environmental challenges require collaboration across jurisdictions, often through forums or intermediary spaces for repeated interaction. A persistent forum design question concerns inclusion criteria, or which actors should be included. Ecology of Games, public choice, and collaborative governance detail various costs and benefits of expanding inclusion, but less attention has been paid to specific variations in inclusion criteria. To address t…

  • Principles for guiding future research on resilience and tipping points

    Open AccessChuixiang Yi, Max Rietkerk et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Principles for guiding future research on resilience and tipping points, Yi, Chuixiang, Rietkerk, Max, Anderies, John M, Chen, Deliang, Dakos, Vasilis, Ritchie, Paul D L, Rocha, Juan C, Milkoreit, Manjana, Quinn, Courtney

  • Equity implications of efficient water conservation programs

    Open AccessKoorosh Azizi, Jesse L Barnes et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Urban water management is increasingly challenged by the need to balance cost-effectiveness with equity considerations. This study presents a multi-objective approach to water conservation within the Las Vegas valley water district, analyzing a comprehensive dataset of water consumption and socioeconomic indicators across all single-family residences. We assess policy scenarios under two primary objectives: maximizing water savings to enhance eco…

  • Institutional Change of Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems: Experience from Nepal

    Open AccessP S Jagadish, Hallie Eakin et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of the…2024Cited by: 1References: 12

    The International Journal of the Commons is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed open-access journal, dedicated to furthering the understanding of institutions for use and management of resources that are (or could be) enjoyed collectively.These resources may be part of the natural world (e.g. forests, climate systems, or the oceans) or they may be created (e.g. infrastructures such as irrigation systems, the internet or (scientific) knowledge, for…

  • Emergence of social-psychological barriers to social-ecological resilience: From Causes to Solutions

    Open AccessJean-Denis Mathias, Jean‐denis Mathias et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2024

    This study explores social-psychological barriers that may affect resilience in the context of sustainability. These barriers can be understood as unobserved processes that reduce the capacity of a social-ecological system to recover after a perturbation or transformation. Analyzing social-psychological processes enables us to distinguish passive and active processes, at the individual and collective levels. Our work suggests that interacting soc…

  • A modeling framework for World-Earth system resilience: Exploring social inequality and Earth system tipping points

    Open AccessJohn M Anderies, Wolfram Barfuß et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    The Anthropocene is characterized by the strengthening of planetary-scale interactions between the biophysical Earth system (ES) and human societies. This increasing social-ecological entanglement poses new challenges for studying possible future World-Earth system (WES) trajectories and World-Earth resilience defined as the capacity of the system to absorb and regenerate from anthropogenic stresses such as greenhouse gas emissions and land-use c…

  • Response diversity as a sustainability strategy

    Open AccessBrian Walker, Anne-Sophie Crépin et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2023Cited by: 6References: 6

  • Hunter-Gatherer Population Expansion and Intensification: Malthusian and Boserupian Dynamics

    Open AccessJ Freeman, Raymond P Mauldin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Method…2023Cited by: 3References: 15

  • Repeated long-term population growth overshoots and recessions among hunter-gatherers

    Open AccessJ Freeman, Raymond P Mauldin et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2023Cited by: 3References: 18

    We propose a model that may explain long-term population growth and decline events among human populations: The intensification of production generates a tradeoff between the adaptive capacity of individuals to generate a surplus of energy to maximize their fitness in the short-run and the long-term capacity of a population as a whole to experience a smooth transition into a demographic equilibrium. The model reconciles the conflicting insights o…

  • Environmental change and ecosystem functioning drive transitions in social-ecological systems: A stylized modelling approach

    Open AccessMaarten B Eppinga, Hugo J De Boer et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2023Cited by: 3References: 2

    Sustainable management of social-ecological systems requires an understanding of how anthropogenic climate- and land use change may disrupt interactions between human societies and the ecosystem processes they depend on. In this study, we expand an existing stylized social-ecological system model by explicitly considering how urbanizing societies may become less dependent on local ecosystem functioning. This expansion is motivated by a previously…

  • Infrastructure and the Energy Use of Human Polities

    Open AccessJ Freeman, Jacopo A Baggio et al.ARTICLECross-Cultural Research2023Cited by: 1References: 55

    This paper integrates scaling theory with variation in systems of governance to help explain cross-cultural differences in the energy use of human polities. In both industrial and pre-industrial polities, systems of governance moderate the scaling of population and energy use. Polities with more inclusive governance systems display, on average, lower energy use per agent. However, as populations increase in size, the energy consumed by polities w…

  • Understanding how governance emerges in social-ecological systems: Insights From Archetype Analysis

    Open AccessRimjhim Aggarwal, John M Anderies et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2023Cited by: 1

    This paper is motivated by the question: how does governance emerge within social-ecological systems (SESs)? Addressing this question is critical for fostering sustainable transformations because it directs attention to the context specific and process intensive nature of governance as arising from the internal dynamics (i.e., interplay of feedbacks and interdependencies between the components) of SESs. This contrasts with the commonly held view …

  • Understanding the effects of institutional diversity on irrigation systems dynamics

    Open AccessHoon C Shin, Sechindra Vallury et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2022

  • Earth stewardship: Shaping a sustainable future through interacting policy and norm shifts

    Open AccessF Stuart Chapin, Elke U Weber et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2022Cited by: 4References: 66

    Transformation toward a sustainable future requires an earth stewardship approach to shift society from its current goal of increasing material wealth to a vision of sustaining built, natural, human, and social capital—equitably distributed across society, within and among nations. Widespread concern about earth’s current trajectory and support for actions that would foster more sustainable pathways suggests potential social tipping points in pub…

  • Assessing sustainability through the Institutional Grammar of urban water systems

    Open AccessAaron Deslatte, Laura Helmke‐long et al.ARTICLEPolicy Studies Journal2022Cited by: 9References: 41

    Urban water supply systems in the United States are designed to be robust to a wide range of historical hydrological conditions in both their physical infrastructure and in the institutional arrangements that govern their use. However, these systems vary greatly in their capacity to respond to new and evolving stressors on water supplies, such as those associated with climate change. Developing a more precise understanding of the complexity of in…

  • Resilience-performance trade-offs in managing social-ecological systems

    Open AccessMehran Homayounfar, Rachata Muneepeerakul et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2022Cited by: 1

    Homayounfar, M., R. Muneepeerakul, and J. M. Anderies. 2022. Resilience-performance trade-offs in managing social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society 27(1):7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12892-270107

  • Landscape Engineering Impacts the Long-Term Stability of Agricultural Populations

    Open AccessJ Freeman, John M Anderies et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2021

  • Drivers of compliance monitoring in forest commons

    Open AccessGerald Epstein, Georgina G Gurney et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2021Cited by: 1References: 26

  • Integrating institutional approaches and decision science to address climate change: A multi-level collective action research agenda

    Open AccessAbigail M York, Caitlin Drummond Otten et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2021Cited by: 5References: 22

  • Lessons learned from synthetic research projects based on the Ostrom Workshop frameworks

    Open AccessMartha Cox, Michael Cox et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2021

    Cox, M., G. G. Gurney, J. M. Anderies, E. Coleman, E. Darling, G. B. Epstein, U. Frey, M. Nenadovic, E. Schlager, and S. Villamayor-Tomas. 2021. Lessons learned from synthetic research projects based on the Ostrom Workshop frameworks. Ecology and Society 26(1):17. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12092-260117

  • Radiocarbon data may support a Malthus-Boserup model of hunter-gatherer population expansion

    Open AccessJ Freeman, Robert J Hard et al.ARTICLEJournal of Anthropological…2021Cited by: 5References: 34

  • Urbanization, Migration, and Adaptation to Climate Change

    Open AccessW Neil Adger, Anne-Sophie Crépin et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020

  • Integrating collapse theories to understand socio-ecological systems resilience

    Open AccessCathy Rubiños, John M AnderiesARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    The world is facing new environmental challenges that may trigger the collapse of some social-ecological systems (SES). More extreme weather events may be much more common in the decades to come due to climate change. Although we have an idea of what climatic events to expect in each region, we know less about how SES can cope with these challenges. We study The Peruvian Piura Basin, which has been exposed to harsh environmental events associated…