Prof. Yansui LIU- http://people.ucas.edu.cn/~liuyansui?language=en E-mail: [email protected]
Prof. Yansui Liu, born in Suide County, Shaanxi Province, is a professor and TWAS Fellow
(https://twas.org/article/twas-elects-46-new-fellows), and director-general, Center for Assessment and Research on Targeted Poverty Alleviation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS); Director of the Centre for Regional Agriculture and Rural Development (CRARD, http://www.rard.org); Executive director of the Research Centre for Land Use Planning (CLUP) at the
Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), CAS; Chair, IGU Commission on Agricultural Geography and Land Engineering(IGU-AGLE); Vice-director general of Degraded and Unuse Land Consolidation Key Laboratory, Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR);National excellent scientific and technical workers; Head of the science and technology innovation team of Modern Land Engineering and Rural Vitalization, MLR; Yangtze River Scholar Distinguished Professor, Ministry of education of China.
,2018 Global Highly Cited Researchers
Society Appointments:
Prof. Yansui Liu currently serves as a team leader of the expert group, The Third Party Evaluation of the Effectiveness of National Targeted Poverty Alleviation; Director-general, China Urban-Rural Development Think Tank Alliance (CURTA,
www.curta.org.cn),Vice-director general, the Land Society of China ;Vice-director general, the Agricultural Resource and Zoning Society of China; Chair of the Sub-commission on Land Resources Research, Chinese Society for Natural Resources (CSNR); Chair of the Sub-commission on Agricultural Geography and Rural Development, Geographical Society of China (GSC), and an adjunct professor in the Land Use Key Laboratory of MLR, University of CAS, and Shaanxi Normal University. He is one of the associate chief editors of the journal Areal Research and Development, Economical Geography, and a member of the editorial board of Land Use Policy,
Journal of Geographical Sciences, Chinese Geographical Sciences, Journal of Mountain Sciences, Journal of Natural Resources, Resources Science, and Human Geography.
Education:
Prof. Yansui Liu graduated from the Geography Department of Shaanxi Normal University with a BSc in 1989, an MSc in 1995, and received his PhD degree from the Nanjing Normal University in 1998. He completed his postdoctoral research at IGSNRR, CAS in 2000. He also carried out research at Montana State University and the University of Auckland as a visiting scholar in 2001 and 2003, respectively.
Areas of Specialization:
Prof. Yansui Liu is a geographer and his major areas of research are land use, land engineering, regional agriculture and rural development, urbanization and new countryside construction, poverty alleviation and rural vitalization. So far he as the principal investigator has undertaken 70 research projects sponsored by NSFC, CAS, MLR, MAC and the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Academic Awards:
He has received the TWAS Prize in Social Sciences for 2018,
the Technology Development Promotion Prize from CAS, the Leading Talent Award of Technological Innovation by Ministry of Natural Resources,
China’s National Excellent Scientist Award, and 2018 National Innovation Award for Overcoming Poverty; Advanced Individual Awards for 2016, The State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development: Principal priorities for third-party evaluation of the effectiveness of national targeted poverty alleviation; Outstanding Scientist Award in Land Use and Rural Development, International Geographical Union and the Geographical Society of China in 2017, and eight awards, including five first prize of Sciences and Technology Advancement Award of Hainan Province in 2009, Shaanxi Province in 2006, 2011, 2014, Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) in 2013, and three second prize of MLR in 2015,Yunnan Province in 2009, Shaanxi Province in 2004. He was a recipient of the countrywide outstanding scientists and technologists in 2012, first prize on academy-local government cooperative award, CAS in 2011, outstanding science and technology achievement Award, CAS in 2009, the young agronomic technology award of CAASS in 2004, the young science and technology researcher award of CSNR in 2003, the young geographical sciences technology award of GSC, the best PhD dissertation award of Jiangsu Province in 1999.
Publications:
Prof. Yansui Liu has published 450 scientific papers, 140 of which have appeared in SCI, SSCI journals like
Nature, Land Use Policy,Journal of Rural Studies, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Environmental Management, Journal of Environmental Management, Applied Geography and Applied Energy. His other publications include eighty books. The selected publications are as follows (http://www.rard.org/list?catalogId=9)
- Liu Yansui, Li Yuheng. Revitalize the world’s countryside.
Nature, 2017,548 (7667): 275–277. - Liu Yansui. Introduction to land use and rural sustainability in China.
Land Use Policy, 2018, 74: 1-4. - Liu Yansui, Li Jintao, Yang Yuanyuan. Strategic adjustment of land use policy under the economic transformation.
Land Use Policy, 2018, 74: 5-14. - Liu Yansui, Liu Jilai, Zhou Yang. Spatio-temporal patterns of rural poverty in China and targeted poverty alleviation strategies.Journal of Rural Studies, 2017 (52): 66-75.
- Liu Yansui, Yang Yuanyuan, Li Yurui et al. Conversion from rural settlements and arable land under rapid urbanization in Beijing during 1985-2010.
Journal of Rural Studies, 2017 (51) :141-150 - Liu Yansui, Zhou Yang, Li Yurui. Ventilating Beijing cannot fix pollution.
Nature,2016,532(7600):441-441. doi:10.1038/532441c - Liu Yansui,Yan Bin, Zhou Yang.
Urbanization, economic growth, and carbon dioxide emissions in China: a panel cointegration and causality analysis.
Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2016, 26(2): 131-152. - Liu Yansui, Long Hualou, Chen Yufu et al. Progress of research on urban-rural transformation and rural development in China in the past decade and future prospects.
Journal of Geographical Sciences. 2016, 26(8): 1117-1132. - Liu Yansui, Li Yuheng,Chen Cong. Pollution: Build on success in China. Nature, 2015,517(7533):145-145.
doi:10.1038/517145d - Liu Yansui, Li Yuheng.
China’s land creation project stands firm.
Nature, 2014,511(7510): 410-410. doi:10.1038/511410c - Bai Xuemei, Shi Peijun, Liu Yansui. Realizing China’s urban dream.
Nature, 2014, 509 (7499): 158-160.doi:10.1038/509158a - Liu Yansui, Zhou Yang, Wu Wenxiang. Assessing the impact of population, income and technology on energy consumption and industrial pollutant emissions in China.
Applied Energy, 2015, 155: 904-917. - Liu Yansui, Guo Yanjun, Li Yurui, Li Yuheng. GIS-based effect assessment of soil erosion before and after gully land consolidation: A case study of Wangjiagou project region, Loess Plateau. Chinese Geographical Science, 2015, 25(2): 137-146.
- Liu Yansui, Chen Cong, Li Yurui. Differentiation regularity of urban-rural equalized development at prefecture-level city in China.
Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2015, 25(9): 1075-1088. - Liu Yansui, Fangfang, Li Yuheng.
Key issues of land use in China and implications for policy making.
Land Use Policy, 2014, 40: 6-12. - Liu Yansui,, Yang Ren, Long Hualong, Jay Gao.
Implications of land-use change in rural China: A case study of Yucheng, Shandong province.
Land Use Policy, 2014, 40: 111-118. - Liu Yansui, Hu Zhichao, Li Yuheng.
Process and cause of urban–rural development transformation in the Bohai Rim Region, China.
Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2014, 24(6): 1147-1160. - Liu Yansui,, Lu Shasha, Chen Yufu. Spatio-temporal change of urban-rural equalized development patterns in China and its driving factors.
Journal of Rural Studies, 2013, (32): 320-330. - Liu Yansui,, Yang Ren, Li Yuheng. Potential of land consolidation of hollowed villages under different urbanization scenarios in China.
Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2013, 23(3): 503-512. - Liu Yansui,, Wang Guogang, Zhang Fugang.
Spatio-temporal dynamic patterns of rural area development in eastern coastal China.
Chinese Geographical Science, 2013, 23(2): 173-181. - Liu Yansui,, Chen Yangfen, Long Hualou.
Regional diversity of peasant household response to new countryside construction based on field survey in eastern coastal China.
Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2011, 21(5): 869-881. - Liu Yansui, Liu Yu, Cheng Yaofeng, Long Hualou.
The process and driving forces of rural hollowing in China under rapid urbanization.
Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2010, 20(6): 876-888. - Liu Yansui, Wang Jieyong, Long Hualong. Analysis of arable land loss and its impact on rural sustainability in Southern Jiangsu Province of China. Journal of Environmental Management, 2010, 91 (3):646–653.
- Liu Yansui, Zhang Yanyu, Guo Liying.
Towards realistic assessment of cultivated land quality in an ecologically fragile environment: A satellite imagery-based approach.
Applied Geography, 2010, 30(2): 271-281. - Liu Yansui, Zhang Fugang, Zhang Yingwen
Appraisal of typical rural development models during rapid urbanization in the eastern coastal region of China.
Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2009, 19(5): 557-567. - Liu Yansui, Wang Jieyong, Deng Xiangzheng. Rocky land desertification and its driving forces in the karst areas of rural Guangxi, Southwest China.
Journal of Mountain Science, 2008, 5(4): 681-699. - Liu Yansui, Wang Lijuan, Long Hualou.
Spatio-temporal analysis of land-use conversion in the eastern coastal China during 1996-2005. Journal
of Geographical Sciences, 2008, 18(3): 274-282. - Liu Yansui, Wang Jieyong and Guo Liying.GIS-Based assessment of land suitability for optimal allocation in the Qinling Mountains, China.
Pedosphere. 2006, 16(5): 579-586. - Liu Yansui,
Wang Dawei, Jay Gao. Land use/cover changes, the environment and water resources in Northeast China.
Environmental Management, 2005, (36): 691-701. - Liu Yansui, Hu Yecui,
Peng Liuying. Accurate quantification of grassland cover density in the alpine meadow soil based on remote sensing and GPS.
Pedosphere, 2005, 5(6): 778-783. - Liu Yansui, Gan Hong, Jay Gao. The causes and environmental effects of land use conversion during agricultural restructuring in Northeast China.
Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2004, 14 (4): 488-494. - Liu Yansui, Zha Yong, Jay Gao, Ni Shaoxiang.Assessment of grassland degradation near Lake Qinghai, Western China using Landsat TM and ‘in situ’ reflectance spectra data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2004, 25(20): 4177-4189.
- Liu Yansui, Zhang Xiaoping, Li Xianwen. Mechanism and regulation of land use change in Yulin District.
Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2003, 13(2): 139-146. - Liu Yansui, Jay Gao, Yang Yanfeng.
A holistic approach towards assessment of severity of land degradation along the great wall in Northern Shaanxi Province, China.
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2003, 82 (2): 187-202. - Liu Yansui, Md Anisul Islam, Jay Gao. Quantification of shallow water quality parameters by means of remote sensing.
Progress in Physical Geography, 2003, 27(1):24–43. - Liu Yansui, Deng Xiangzheng, Structural patterns of land types and optimal allocation of land use in Qinling Mountains,
Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2001,11(1):99-109.
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