Name: DENG Xiangzheng

Current Appointment: Professor

Education: PhD in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Chinese Academy of Sciences; PhD in Environmental Economics, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Areas of Specialization: Natural Resource Management; Environmental Geography; Environmental and Natural Resource Economics; Ecosystem Services and Functions; Land System and Global Change; Sustainability-based Decision Making.

Academic Awards：

Award for Science and Technology from Shanxi Provincial Government, China, 2021.

Award for Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology Progress from Chinese Society for Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation, 2022/2018/2017/2015.

Award for Progress in Science and Technology from the Ministry of Land and Resources, 2012/2018.

Award for Science and Technology from Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, 2011.

Award for Science and Technology from Hainan Provincial Government, China, 2009.

Award for Most Cited English Articles by Acta Geographica Sinica, China, 2014

Award for Most Cited Articles by Chinese Mainland Authors on Elsevier Economics Journals, 2004-2008.

Society Appointments:

Scientific Committee (SC) member, Urban Knowledge-Action Network, Future Earth, 2019-.

Associate Editor in Chief, Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 2018-.

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017-.

Editorial Board Member, Land, 2016-.

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Geographical Science, 2015-.

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Land Use Science, 2014-.

Steering Scientific Committee (SSC) member, Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (UGEC), IHDP, Future Earth, 2010-2017.

Consultant, Ecosystem services and poverty alleviation project, NERC, ESRC and DfID, UK, 2009-2012.

Editor, Journal of Regional Environmental Change, 2009-.

Consultant, Environment-friendly ecological agriculture development strategy research project for the Yellow River Basin response to climate change, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, 2008-2010.

Consultant, Guangxi Integrated Forestry Development and Conservation Project, World Bank, 2005-2010.

Representative Publications:

Deng, Xiangzheng, John Gibson (2019). River Basin Management. Springer Singapore.

Deng, Xiangzheng, et al., (2014). Integrated River Basin Management: Practice Guideline for the IO Table Compilation and CGE Modeling, Springer.

Deng, Xiangzheng et al., (2014). Land Use Impacts on Climate, Springer. 

Deng, Xiangzheng (2011). Modeling the Dynamics and Consequences of Land System Change. Springer.  

Major Research Projects:

1. Agricultural land-use system management, NSFC Grant, Jan 2023-Dec 2027, PI;

2. Key technologies and demonstrations on poverty reduction and pathways to prosperity, CAS Grant, Jan 2019-Dec 2023, PI;

2. Trade-offs on Land Uses for Grain Production, Ecological Restoration and Urbanization in North China Plain, NSFC Grant, Jan 2018-Dec 2021, PI;

3. A Study on Urban Ecological Community Construction and Urban Ecological Integrated Management Mechanism, NSFC Grant, Jan 2016-Dec 2020, PI;

4. Eco-Urbanization: Promoting Sustainable Development in Metropolitan Regions of China, NSFC grant, Jan 2016-Dec 2018, PI;

5. Initiative on Social and Economic Dimensions on Climate Change and Carbon Reduction, MOST Grant, July 2016-June 2021, PI;

6. The International Comparison, Scientific Selection and Path Selection of China’s Urbanization Model, CAS Grant, Jan 2014-Dec 2016, PI;

7. Decision Support System and Integrated Study for the Water Management in the Hehei River Basin, NSFC Grant, Jan 2014-Dec 2017, PI;

Office Address:

Room 824, Building No. B, IGSNRR

11A Da Tun Road

An Wai, Beijing 100101

People’s Republic of China

Telephone: 86-10-6488-8980

Fax: 86-10-6488-6533

Email: dengxz@igsnrr.ac.cn

Updated on Feb. 8, 2023