Introduction
I am an environmental specialist with a focus on ecosystem service valuation (the process of assessing ecosystems' contributions to sustainable human wellbeing) and protected area management. I received a PhD in 2022 and Master of Environmental Management in 2017 from the Australian National University, and a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Economics in 2015 from the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China. I also studied in the University of Tokyo, Japan, as a short-term exchange student in early 2017.
I am now a postdoctoral researcher participating at an ecosystem service assessment project sponsored by the US Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture. Previously, I did internships with the UNEP Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat in 2021 and the Convention on Migratory Species Secretariat in 2018 to contribute to global environmental governance, including development of a toolkit to assess effectiveness of biodiversity policies.
I have presented my research at several international academic conferences or forums, such as the 10th World Conference of Ecosystem Services Partnership, Hannover, Germany (21 Oct. 2019 – 25 Oct. 2019), and the Ecological Economics and Eco-civilization International Forum, Beijing, China (15 Nov. 2019 – 16 Nov. 2019)
My publications include:
Chen, H* 2020, ‘Complementing conventional environmental impact assessments of tourism with ecosystem service valuation: A case study of the Wulingyuan Scenic Area, China’, Ecosystem Services, vol. 43, 101100, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101100.
Chen, H* 2020, ‘Land use trade-offs associated with protected areas in China: Current state, existing evaluation methods, and future application of ecosystem service valuation’, Science of the Total Environment, vol. 711, 134688, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134688
Chen, H* 2021, ‘The ecosystem service value of maintaining and expanding terrestrial protected areas in China’, Science of the Total Environment, vol. 781, 146768, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146768.
Chen, H* 2022, Using "accounting values" for ecosystem services to assess land use trade-offs associated with protected areas in China, PhD Thesis, Australian National University, https://doi.org/10.25911/80H9-M111
Chen, H*, Costanza, R, and Kubiszewski, I 2022, ‘Land use trade-offs in China’s protected areas from the perspective of accounting values of ecosystem services’, Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 315, 115178, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115178
Chen, H* 2022, Zhang, T & Wu, L, ‘Deliberative and Conventional Stated-Preference Valuation on Protected Areas’ Cultural Ecosystem Services: A Case Study in China’, SSRN Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4003381
Hernández-Blanco, M, Costanza, R*, Chen, H, de Groot, D, Jarvis, D, Kubiszewski, I, Montoya, J, Sangha, K, Stoeckl, N, Turner, K, and van 't Hoff, V 2022, ‘Ecosystem health, ecosystem services, and the well-being of humans and the rest of nature’, Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16281
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I am an environmental specialist with a focus on ecosystem service valuation (the process of assessing ecosystems' contributions to sustainable human wellbeing) and protected area management. I received a PhD in 2022 and Master of Environmental Management in 2017 from the Australian National University, and a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Economics in 2015 from the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China. I also studied in the University of Tokyo, Japan, as a short-term exchange student in early 2017.
I am now a postdoctoral researcher participating at an ecosystem service assessment project sponsored by the US Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture. Previously, I did internships with the UNEP Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat in 2021 and the Convention on Migratory Species Secretariat in 2018 to contribute to global environmental governance, including development of a toolkit to assess effectiveness of biodiversity policies.
I have presented my research at several international academic conferences or forums, such as the 10th World Conference of Ecosystem Services Partnership, Hannover, Germany (21 Oct. 2019 – 25 Oct. 2019), and the Ecological Economics and Eco-civilization International Forum, Beijing, China (15 Nov. 2019 – 16 Nov. 2019)
Fields of expertise: Environmental policy / climate change