Publications
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Nonlinear effects of group size on collective action and resource outcomes
Published on June 14, 2013
Using data gathered from the Wolong Nature Reserve since 1995, we examined the effects of group size on both collective action and resource outcomes while controlling for potential confounding factors. -
Going Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: An Index System of Human Well-Being
Published on May 28, 2013
To fill some of these research needs, we developed a quantitative index system to measure HWB, and assessed the impacts of an external driver – the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake – on HWB. -
Going Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: An Index System of Human Dependence on Ecosystem Services
Published on May 28, 2013
Here, we propose an index of dependence on ecosystem services (IDES) system to quantify human dependence on ecosystem services. -
Effects of Global Household Proliferation on Ecosystem Services
Published on April 19, 2013
It is important to use ecosystem services more efficiently, turn households from consumers to producers of ecosystem services, and incorporate household proliferation into ecosystem service research and management. -
The Largest World's Fair
Published on March 21, 2013
Taking a look at "Science". -
Water conservancy projects in China: Achievements, challenges and way forward
Published on March 21, 2013
This paper provides an overview of China's water conservancy development, and illustrates the socioeconomic, environmental and ecological impacts. -
Evaluation of Ecosystem Service Policies from Biophysical and Social Perspectives: The Case of China
Published on March 13, 2013
China has been implementing many large-scale ecosystem service policies. This article highlights three major ones – Nature Reserve System, Natural Forest Conservation Program, and Grain-to-Green Program. -
Effects of conservation policies on forest cover change in giant panda habitat regions, China
Published on January 22, 2013
After long periods of deforestation, forest transition has occurred globally, but the causes of forest transition in different countries are highly variable. -
Modelling for forest management synergies and trade-offs: Northern hardwood tree regeneration, timber and deer
Published on November 20, 2012
We present a forest tree regeneration, growth, and harvest simulation model developed with the express purpose of assisting managers to evaluate the impacts of timber and deer management on forest dynamics in northern hardwood forests. -
Improving the efficiency of conservation policies with the use of surrogates derived from remotely sensed and ancillary data
Published on October 18, 2012
Conservation policies are emerging in many places around the world, many of which involve payment for ecosystem services (PES) schemes -
PNAS - Coexistence between wildlife and humans at fine spatial scales
Published on September 3, 2012
Tigers in Nepal take the night shift to avoid people -
Water Sustainability for China and Beyond
Published on August 10, 2012
We highlight China’s water crisis and plan, and then offer recommendations. -
Utility of a psychological framework for carnivore conservation
Published on August 1, 2012
Conserving threatened carnivore species increasingly depends on the capacity of local people to cohabit with those species. -
How Perceived Exposure to Environmental Harm Influences Environmental Behavior in Urban China
Published on July 30, 2012
Our results suggest that more participation in pro-environmental behaviors may be expected as rapid economic development increases public exposure to environmental harm in urban China. -
Inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to population-environment research for sustainability aims: a review and appraisal
Published on June 8, 2012
The causes and consequences of demographic changes for the environment, and the possible ways of influencing population dynamics to achieve ‘sustainability’, have been the subject of many debates in science and policy in recent decades -
Long-Term Ecological Effects of Demographic and Socioeconomic Factors in Wolong Nature Reserve (China)
Published on May 23, 2012
Human population has exerted enormous impacts on biodiversity, even in areas with “biodiversity hotspots” identified by Myers et al. -
Weak Ties, Labor Migration, and Environmental Impacts: Toward a Sociology of Sustainability
Published on May 23, 2012
Debate about the substitutability of manufactured, natural, human, and social capital is at the heart of sustainability theory -
Drivers and Socioeconomic Impacts of Tourism Participation in Protected Areas
Published on April 30, 2012
In a multi-year study, we followed a representative sample of 220 local households from 1999 to 2007 to investigate the diverse benefits that these households received from recent development of nature-based tourism in the area. -
Relationship between floristic similarity and vegetated land surface phenology: Implications for the synoptic monitoring of species diversity at broad geographic regions
Published on March 23, 2012
Assessing species composition and its changes through time across broad geographic regions is time consuming and a difficult endeavor. -
Evaluating the efï¬cacy of zoning designations for protected area management
Published on October 28, 2011
Protected areas worldwide are facing increasing pressures to co-manage human development and biodiversity conservation.