Independent experts nominated by country party

Since 1990s, I have been working on landscape restoration, ecosystem management and soil erosion control, e.g. land use evaluation, sustainable land use planning, ecosystem service assessment, landscape pattern design and management. In late 1990s, I participated in a joint project supported by EU, and collaborated with the scientists from the Netherlands and Sweden. The primary objectives of this project to find a promising land use model in the Loess Plateau by integrating land use evaluation, soil erosion modeling and public participation. I was mainly in charge of the land use evaluation and sustainable planning. After then, I have finished two key project on watershed ecosystem management in the semi-loess hilly in western Loess Plateau by considering both local farmers’ needs and environmental conservation, as the principal investigator. In these project, large field survey was conducted, including investigation on land use types, on-site measurements on soil water, soil erosion, runoff and biomass.