Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment

09/22/2024

03/14/2024

What a nice lunch with visitor Towa Tachibana.

02/09/2024

The coupled infrastructure system of delivering affordable food to an increasing population is not only bad for planetary health, also for public health. Read more in the blog post.

Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken is a fascinating book discussing how the food industry creates edible stuff we get addicted to, leading to various implications for human and planetary health. If we had the choice, we would likely prefer to eat food that is produced with minimally proces...

10/05/2023

The Drylab 30-day challenge is in the news today. Check it out and join the challenge

Inspired by an experiment where eight ASU students lived in the Mojave Desert for a month on four gallons of water a day, an ASU initiative is challenging Arizonans to learn about their relationship with water and see where they can make changes throughout the month of October.

09/20/2023

The School of Sustainability at Arizona State University has an opening for an Assistant Professor in Sustainability and Behavior Change. Apply before November 1. Find more information at

08/19/2023

You can now find our new textbook Infrastructure for Sustainability here: https://cisi.info/ . It is a follow-up on Sustaining the Commons, focusing on the coupled infrastructure systems framework.

We look forward to hearing your feedback.

03/21/2023

The groundwater game is also applied in Ethiopia

This is "Games to stimulate groundwater governance--An introduction and example from Ethiopia" by IFPRI on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and…

02/27/2023

Raksha and Marco demonstrate the groundwater game during ASU's Open Door.

01/17/2023

Port of Mars is a game for research and education on the commons, especially how to make decisions under uncertainty. It is now available for everyone to play. Enjoy!

https://portofmars.asu.edu/

06/27/2022

Job opportunity in study of complex systems and governance of social-ecological systems. Check out the postdoc position at

06/11/2022

Join us!! We are looking for a postdoc for the computational analysis and modeling of social-ecological systems. For more info see

06/23/2021

We will host a Winter School on Agent-Based Modeling of Social-Ecological Systems again in January 2022. Apply by October 1. More info at https://complexity.asu.edu/cbie/winterschool