Professor, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Hua Zheng

Dr. Zheng's research focuses on the relationships between ecosystem structure-process and ecosystem services, ecosystem service assessment and its policy application. He explores how forest ecosystem structures and processes impact ecosystem services through long-term ecological research, assesses the ecosystem services at different scales (including watershed, regional and national), and applies them to different policy assessments and designs (e.g., payment for ecosystem service policy, ecological redlining institution, sustainable land use policy).

Publications

Gross ecosystem product (GEP): Quantifying nature for environmental and economic policy innovation. (2023). Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01948-8
Integrating Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches Improves Practicality and Efficiency of Large-Scale Ecological Restoration Planning: Insights from a Social–Ecological System. (2022). Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eng.2022.08.008
An improved quality assessment framework to better inform large-scale forest restoration management. (2021). Ecological Indicators, 123, 107370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107370
Using gross ecosystem product (GEP) to value nature in decision making. (2020). PNAS, 117(25), 14593-14601. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1911439117