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Hoon C. Shin

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Mid career · publishing since 2016
Water resources management and optimizationConservation, Biodiversity, and Resource ManagementExperimental Behavioral Economics StudiesWater Governance and InfrastructureSustainability and Climate Change Governance

Publications

23

Citations

491

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

11

Publishing since 2016

Research summary
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Hoon C. Shin studies how infrastructure systems like water supply, irrigation, dams, and highways are governed and managed as part of larger social-ecological systems—that is, systems where human institutions, rules, and behavior interact with physical and environmental resources. Much of this work draws on frameworks for analyzing shared resources ('commons') and institutional design to understand why some governance arrangements succeed or fail, and applies these ideas to topics like flood resilience, reservoir operations, and infrastructure risk analysis.

Governance of shared water and infrastructure resourcesSocial-ecological-technological systems analysisInstitutional design and the 'commons' frameworkInfrastructure resilience and risk analysisBehavioral and network approaches to resource management

Publication output has been modest but fairly steady over the last decade, with occasional gaps (e.g., 2018) and a recent uptick in 2024.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.0/year recently
2017: 2 publications17182019: 2 publications192020: 3 publications202021: 1 publication212022: 2 publications222023: 1 publication232024: 4 publications4242025: 2 publications252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • International Journal of the Commons×4
  • Ecological Economics×3
  • Nature Sustainability×1
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences×1
  • Global Environmental Change×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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