Beijing Nodal Office

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS
dongjw@igsnrr.ac.cn

China

Focus on: Land use and ecosystem interactions.

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March 10, 2023

The role of harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) products to reveal multiple trajectories and determinants of cropland abandonment in subtropical mountainous areas

A new article in the Journal of Environmental Management took Nanjing County of China as an example and found great suitability of harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 images to distinguish multiple trajectories of cropland abandonment in subtropical mountainous areas.

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September 6, 2022

2023 Whitley Awards now open for leaders of Global South wildlife conservation projects

To be eligible, projects must involve communities at the grassroots level and deliver practical action that is founded on science. Deadline: 31 October

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April 12, 2021

China mainstreaming ecosystem restoration technology into national development priorities for building an ecological civilization

Read an update on GLP Fellow Lin Zhen's work on "The methodology and indicator system for assessing ecological restoration technologies and evaluation of global ecosystem rehabilitation technologies," one of China's National Key Research and Development Programs that ran from 2016 to 2020.

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September 9, 2020

EVENT RECAP: Modelling Telecoupling Land Use Changes

The GLP working group Telecoupling Towards Sustainable Transformation held its third webinar to discuss the progress and challenges of modelling telecoupled systems by presenting two different modelling attempts of simulating land use changes in Brazil and China through the flow of international soybean trade.

 

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