A5075757345- Water resources management and optimization
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Groundwater flow and contamination studies
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Forest Management and Policy
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Groundwater and Watershed Analysis
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Music and Audio Processing
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
Purdue University West Lafayette
2023-2024
Arizona State University
2016-2022
National University of Singapore
2021-2022
Governing common pool resources (CPR) in the face of disturbances such as globalization and climate change is challenging. The outcome any CPR governance regime influenced by local combinations social, institutional, biophysical factors, well cross-scale interdependencies. In this study, we take a step towards understanding multiple-causation outcomes analyzing 1) co-occurrence Destign Principles (DP) activity (irrigation, fishery forestry), 2) combination(s) DPs leading to social ecological...
Significance Smallholder farmers make a significant contribution to food security in developing countries. Those farmer communities are experiencing new challenges owing integration with the broader economy (increasing price volatility) and climate change frequency of extreme weather events). Our study aimed understand how smallholder agricultural collective action decisions public good game different types risks. Experiments performed 118 small-scale rice-producing China, Colombia, Nepal...
The growing interconnectivity of critical infrastructure systems in urban areas has escalated cascading failure risks, where disruptions one system propagate to others. Urban drainage networks, essential for pluvial flood risk reduction, can paradoxically be vulnerable due their interconnected network structure. While existing studies focus on physical and geographical interdependencies, the role ‘logical interdependencies’—rooted numerous nested institutional...
A useful theoretical lens that has emerged for understanding urban resilience is the four basic types of interdependencies in critical infrastructures: physical, geographic, cyber, and logical types. This paper motivated by a conceptual methodological limitation-although (where two infrastructures affect state each other via human decisions) are regarded as one interdependencies, question how to apply notion quantify relations remains under-explored. To overcome this limitation, study...
On-going efforts to understand the dynamics of coupled social-ecological (or more broadly, infrastructure) systems and common pool resources have led generation numerous datasets based on a large number case studies. This data has facilitated identification important factors fundamental principles which increase our understanding such complex systems. However, at disposal are often not easily comparable, limited scope scale, disparate underlying frameworks inhibiting synthesis,...
Large-N comparative studies have helped common pool resource scholars gain general insights into the factors that influence collective action and governance outcomes. However, these are often limited by missing data, suffer from methodological limitation important information is lost when we reduce textual to quantitative data. This study was motivated nine case appeared be inconsistent with expectation presence of Ostrom's Design Principles increases likelihood successful governance. These...
In the study of common-pool resource (CPR) governance, frame- works provide a metatheoretical language to describe system states, dynamics, elements, and relationships. The coding manuals which accompany CPR works–in addition providing guidelines for connecting empirical case work conceptual variables–define vocabulary questions. For work, variables questions with framework elements con- tributes advance. process analysis publication, it is tempting offer novel without also developing,...
The U.S. highway system is an iconic example of civil infrastructure. Yet it also exemplifies the challenges infrastructure sustainability. American Society for Civil Engineers gave road a grade "D" since roads "are often crowded, frequently in poor condition, chronically underfunded, and are becoming more dangerous." In this paper, we seek to understand intertwined social technical processes that lead unsustainability by examining from perspective coupled systems (CIS), transdisciplinary...
Vallury, S., H. C. Shin, M. A. Janssen, R. Meinzen-Dick, S. Kandikuppa, K. Rao, and Chaturvedi. 2022. Assessing the institutional foundations of adaptive water governance in South India. Ecology Society 27(1):18. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12957-270118
Abstract Unreliable public water supplies cause human hardships and are still common worldwide. Households often deal with the issue by adopting various coping strategies that representative of economic decentralization (e.g., using private wells, sourcing from third‐party vendors) political making petitions to a provider). There is growing interest in these user‐level decentralized strategies, but their relative effects on provider's behavior long‐term sustainability supply remain unclear....
Groundwater depletion driven by intensive pumping for irrigated agriculture poses a global threat to economies, food security, and ecosystems. Addressing this issue requires reductions, but their implementation is wicked problem due interlinked hydrological, social, economic factors. Our study inspired the working group "Effective Aquifer Governance Agriculture," aiming contribute HELPING decade's goals understanding local socio-hydrological processes promoting recognition in of general...
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) present significant risks and opportunities, requiring improved governance to mitigate societal harms promote equitable benefits. Current incentive structures regulatory delays may hinder responsible AI development deployment, particularly light of the transformative potential large language models (LLMs). To address these challenges, we propose developing following three contributions: (1) a multimodal text economic-timeseries foundation model that...
It is puzzling how altruistic punishment of defectors can evolve in large groups nonrelatives, since punishers should voluntarily bear individual costs punishing to benefit those who do not pay the costs. Although two distinct mechanisms have been proposed explain puzzle, namely voluntary participation and group-level competition selection, insights into their joint effects less clear. Here we investigated what could be combined these on evolution vary with nonparticipants' payoff group...