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Professor Yu's field study is institutions environment, collective action commons, resilience norms institutions. Specifically, focuses on resilience in highly-engineered social-ecological systems (SES) coupled with natural human systems (CNH) and the unexpected, emergent shocks that can occur. His work examines the interactions that shape the dynamics of coupled systems and understands conditions for building sustainable communities at local and global scales in the face of global change. David employs a diverse range of knowledge and methodologies including systems thinking modeling, collective action commons, human behavior, and research methods such as mathematical computational modeling, case study analysis, and behavioral experiments. His recent research initiatives include the analysis of the effects of infrastructure design on commons dilemmas and the dynamics of irrigated agriculture SES, successful resilience-based management processes, and social connectedness influences on community forestry SES under global change.
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