
신훈철
hooncshin@postech.ac.kr
연구분야
환경사회과학
연구실
무은재기념관 409호
054.279.2039
054.279.2039

- 2020Ph.D. in Environmental Social Science, Arizona State University
- 2008M.A. in Political Science, Seoul National University
- 2006B.S. in Civil, Urban and Geosystem Engineering, Seoul National University

- 2025-Assistant Professor of POSTECH
- 2022 – 2025 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lyles School of Civil & Construction Engineering, Purdue University, USA
- 2020 – 2022Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore

- Interdisciplinary Research Topics: Dynamics and resilience of coupled natural and human (CNH) systems; environmental policy and governance; environmental justice and sustainability; behavior, institutions, and infrastructure
- Research Methods: Mathematical & computational modeling; behavioral experiment; statistical analysis, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA); institutional grammar tool (IGT)

- Olivier, T., Shin, H.C., Yu, D.J., and Garcia, M. (2025). Rule-mediated connectivity in social-ecological-technological systems: a comparative network analysis of reservoir operation rules in Coyote Valley Dam (United States) and Ameghino Dam (Argentina). Journal of Environmental Management 374. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.124009
- Orduña Alegría, M.E, Zipper, S., Shin, H.C., and 16 co-authors (2024). Unlocking aquifer sustainability through irrigator-driven groundwater conservation. Nature Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01437-0
- Yu, D.J., Shin, H.C., Olivier, T., Garcia, M., Meerow, S., and Park, J. (2024). Logical interdependencies in infrastructure: What are they, how to identify them, and what do they mean for infrastructure risk analysis? Risk Analysis, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.16555
- Shin, H.C., Peyman, Y., Park, S., Yu, D.J., Vallury, S., Janssen, M.A., and Araral, E. (2023). Coping with unreliable water supply: an experimental study of exit and voice. Water Resources Research 59(6): e2022 WR032468. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR032468
- Shin, H.C., Vallury, S., Janssen, M.A., and Yu, D.J. (2022). Joint effects of voluntary participation and group selection on the evolution of altruistic punishment. PLoS ONE 17(5): e0268019. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268019
- Shin, H.C., Vallury, S., Abbott, J.K., Anderies, J.M., and Yu, D.J. (2022). Understanding the effects of institutional diversity on irrigation systems dynamics. Ecological Economics 191:107221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107221
- Vallury, S., Shin, H.C., Janssen, M.A., Meinzen-Dick, R., Kandikuppa, S., Rao, K., and Chaturvedi, R. (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
- Shin, H.C., Yu, D.J., Park, S., Anderies, J.M., Abbott, J.K., Janssen, M.A., and Ahn, T.K. (2020). How do resource mobility and group size affect institutional arrangements for rule enforcement? A qualitative comparative analysis of fishing groups in South Korea. Ecological Economics 174:106657. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106657
- Vallury, S., Abbott, J.K, Shin, H.C., and Anderies, J.M. (2020). Sustaining coupled irrigation infrastructures: multiple instruments for multiple dilemmas. Ecological Economics 178:106793. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106793
- Janssen, M.A., Anderies, J.M., Baeza, A., Breetz, H., Jansinski, T., Shin, H.C., and Vallury, S. (2019). Highways as coupled infrastructure systems: An integrated approach to address sustainability challenges. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure. https://doi.org/10.1080/23789689.2019.1708181
- Bernstein, M.J., Mancha-Cisneros, M., Tyson, M., Brady, U., Rubiños, C.A., Shin, H.C., Vallury, S., Smith-Heisters, S., and Ratajczyk, E. (2019). Mapping Ostrom’s common-pool resource systems coding handbook to the coupled infrastructure systems framework to enable comparative research. International Journal of the Commons 13(1): 528-552. http://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.904
- Song, K.A., and Shin, H.C. (2018). Governing the atom: state, society, and the nuclear power system in South Korea. The Journal of Northeast Asia Research 33(2): 333-367.
- Cárdenas, J-C., Janssen, M.A., Ale, M., Bastakoti, R., Bernal, A., Chalermphol, J., Gong, Y., Shin, H.C., Shivakoti, G., Wang, Y., and Anderies, J.M. (2017). Fragility of the provision of local public goods to private and collective risks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 114(5): 921-925. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614892114
- Yu, D.J., Shin, H.C., Pérez, I., Anderies, J.M., and Janssen, M.A. (2016). Learning for resilience-based management: Generating hypotheses from a behavioral study. Global Environmental Change 37: 69-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.01.009
- Baggio, J.A., Barnett, A.J., Perez-Ibara, I., Brady, U., Ratajczyk, E., Rollins, N., Rubiños, C., Shin, H.C., Yu, D.J., Aggarwal, R., Anderies, J.M., and Janssen, M.A. (2016). Explaining success and failure in the commons: the configural nature of Ostrom’s institutional design principles. International Journal of the Commons 10(2): 417-439. https://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.634
- Barnett, A.J., Baggio, J.A., Shin, H.C., Yu, D.J., Perez-Ibarra, I., Rubiños, C., Brady, U., Ratajczyk, E., Rollins, N.D., Aggarwal, R., Anderies, J.M., and Janssen, M.A. (2016). An iterative approach to case study analysis: insights from qualitative analysis of quantitative inconsistencies. International Journal of the Commons 10(2): 467-494. https://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.632
- Ratajczyk, E., Brady, U., Baggio, J.A., Barnett, A.J., Rollins, N., Rubiños, C.A., Shin, H.C., Yu, D.J., Aggarwal, R., Anderies, J.M., and Janssen, M.A. (2016). Challenges and opportunities in coding the commons: problems, procedures, and potential solutions in large-N comparative case studies. International Journal of the Commons 10(2): 440-466. https://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.652