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Appendix B: Biographies of Speakers and Moderators
Appendix B: Biographies of Speakers and Moderators
Pages 59-72
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She has pioneered methods to reconstruct urban land use with satellite imagery and has developed novel methods to forecast urban expansion. She has conducted urbanization research in China for 20 years and in India for more than 10.
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His research emphasizes the creation of new interdisciplinary synthesis to describe cities in quantitative and predictive ways, informed by classical theory from various disciplines and the growing availability of empirical data worldwide. He is the author of over 100 scientific papers and several edited books.
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He is an active member of many academic associations including the vice-chairman of the Chinese Urban Agriculture and Recreational Agriculture Association as well as a board member of the Association of Administration Regionalization, Chinese Geographic Society Rural Development Division, and Urban and Regional Planning Association. His current research focuses on urban-rural sustainable development with emphases on urban and peri-urban agrotourism, urban-rural linkages, spatial restructuring from cultural perspectives, urban renewal, and innovative space making.
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His research focuses on sustainable transportation policy and the nexus between urban transportation and land-use systems. He has written numerous books and articles in these areas, including Beyond Mobility, which won the 2019 National Urban Design Best Book Award.
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FRANCES COLÓN (Planning Committee Member) is chief executive officer of Jasperi Consulting and a 2019 recipient of the Leadership in overnment Fellowship of Open Society Foundations, an initiative G supporting seasoned public servants chosen from the senior ranks of federal, state, and local government who have advanced economic and social change.
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Dr. Ding is the founding director for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy's China Program.
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Dr. Hanson has been the editor of several academic journals, including The Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Urban Geography, and Economic Geography and has been the geography editor of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, first and second editions.
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Dr. Huang's current research activities concern hydrological remote sensing, hydrological data assimilation, and big earth data for monitoring ustainable Development Goal (SDG)
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He has been a member of the China National Expert Panel on Climate Change, a member of the National Foreign Policy Advisory Group and an advisor to the Ministry of Environment Protection. He was vice president of the Chinese Association of Urban Economy, Chinese Society of Ecological Economists, and Chinese Energy Association.
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Román served for 10 years as a civil servant scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where he pioneered the iconic Black Marble -- a suite of satellite products that provide daily global views of Earth at night, with an emphasis on tracking the signatures of recovery across vulnerable communities affected by major disasters.
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She has also served as a consultant on urban planning for the city government of Shenzhen, and a consultant on land use and transportation integration for the Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design in China. ZHONGCHANG SUN is currently an associate researcher with the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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His projects won numerous international awards including 12 ASLA Excellence and Honor Awards, 5 WAF World Best Landscape of the Year Awards, and a ULI global award of excellence. He is founder and chief editor of the internationally awarded magazine Landscape Architecture Frontier.
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He is the d eputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology and the director of the Beijing Urban Ecosystem Research Station, a longterm ecological research station focusing on the Beijing urban ecosystem. He is also the vice president of the Society for Urban Ecology (SURE)
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, and editorial member for several other international journals. He is a scientific committee member for the ICSU program on Human Health and Wellbeing in Changing Urban Environment, and served for 9 years as a member of the Standing Advisory Group for Nuclear Application, International Atomic Energy Agency (2004–2012)
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