Publications
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Impacts of people and tigers on leopard spatiotemporal activity patterns in a global biodiversity hotspot
Published on December 9, 2014
Continuing to evaluate the interconnections among leopards, tigers, prey, and people across different land management regimes is needed to develop robust landscape-scale conservation strategies. -
Rethinking China's new great wall
Published on November 21, 2014
China’s position as the world’s second largest economy is largely due to its rapid economic growth in the coastal region, which comprises only 13% of China’s total land area, yet contributes 60% of the GDP -
Pandas, Plants, and People
Published on November 20, 2014
Our synthesis shows that many human factors, including socioeconomic and demographic, together with other factors (e.g., projected global climate change), exhibit reciprocal interactions with pandas and the plant species that comprise their habitat. -
Coupled human and natural systems approach to wildlife research and conservation
Published on September 12, 2014
Conserving wildlife while simultaneously meeting the resource needs of a growing human population is a major sustainability challenge. -
Economic development and coastal ecosystem change in China
Published on August 20, 2014
We compiled a multifaceted dataset to quantify coastal trends and examine the role of economic growth in China’s coastal degradation since the 1950s. -
RETHINKING GLOBAL LAND USE IN AN URBAN ERA - Significance of Telecoupling for Exploration of Land-Use Change
Published on April 22, 2014
Land systems are increasingly infl uenced by distal connections: the externalities and unintended consequences of social and ecological processes which occur in distant locations -
RETHINKING GLOBAL LAND USE (BOOK CHAPTER) -- Applications of the Telecoupling Framework to Land-Change Science
Published on April 22, 2014
Over the past two decades, progress has been made in understanding and predicting land-use change in specifi c places, using frameworks such as coupled human-natural systems, coupled human-environmental systems, or coupled social-ecological systems -
Impact of Livestock on Giant Pandas and their Habitat
Published on February 27, 2014
We investigated the impact of an emerging livestock sector in China's renowned Wolong Nature Reserve for giant pandas. -
Natural recovery and restoration in giant panda habitat after the Wenchuan earthquake
Published on February 24, 2014
Natural disasters affect forest ecosystems in profound and complex ways. -
POPULATION AND ENVIRONMENT - Longterm dynamics of household size and their environmental implications
Published on February 11, 2014
Little is known about the environmental implications of long-term historical trends in household size -
Assessing the Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services: an Agent-Based Modeling Approach
Published on January 31, 2014
To assess the impacts of these interactions on the effectiveness of PES programs, we developed a spatially explicit agent-based model: human and natural interactions under policies (HANIP). -
Evaluating Conservation Effectiveness of Nature Reserves Established for Surrogate Species: Case of a Giant Panda Nature Reserve in Qinling Mountains, China
Published on January 13, 2014
Many nature reserves are established to protect the habitat needs of particular endangered species of interest but their effectiveness for protecting other species is questionable. -
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC POLICY STUDIES -- Forest Sustainability in China and Implications for a Telecoupled World
Published on December 19, 2013
Using the framework of telecoupling we found that China’s forest cover increase is affected by multiple telecoupling processes and their interactions with each other and with other factors. -
The Housing Bomb: Why Our Addiction to Houses Is Destroying the Environment and Threatening Our Society
Published on November 15, 2013
Explaining how and why our growing addiction to houses has taken the humble American dream and twisted it into an environmental and societal nightmare. -
Integrated assessments of payments for ecosystem services programs
Published on September 26, 2013
Using the Paddy Land to Dry Land (PLDL) program as a case study, Zheng et al. (1) quantify benefits and costs to both service providers and beneficiaries. -
Complex Forces Affect China's Biodiversity
Published on September 19, 2013
Enormous global efforts have been put into biodiversity conservation, but biodiversity loss continues rapidly in many parts of the world, including China -
A low-carbon road map for China
Published on August 13, 2013
Recycling, renewables and a reinvigorated domestic energy market will allow China to lead the world in cutting emissions. -
Revising China's Environmental Law
Published on July 22, 2013
China’s Environmental Protection Law (EPL) is the main national environmental legislative framework. Yet the environmental legal system is incomplete -
Spatial Assessment of Attitudes Toward Tigers in Nepal
Published on July 12, 2013
Our study provides insights and descriptions of techniques to improve attitudes toward wildlife in Chitwan and many regions around the world with similar conservation challenges. -
ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY -- Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World
Published on June 21, 2013
We propose an integrated framework based on telecoupling, an umbrella concept that refers to socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances.