Abstract

Professor Guangyu Wang is an expert in sustainable forest management. He is the Associate Dean and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia(Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), director of the Adaptation of Asia-Pacific Forests to Climate Change program. He has two first-author publications onScience.His research is focused on sustainable forest management and integrated watershed management by using GIS and computer modeling. He has completed several research projects on watershed scale forest restoration and sustainable development projects, where he has used system dynamic approaches, bioregional assessments, geography information systems (GIS), and satellite remote sensing (SRS) techniques to analyze the mechanisms of ecosystem degradation and model the all over land use management. A computerized optimized model has been developed to define the parameters of water quality and quantity, soil erosion and productivity, biodiversity, and societal satisfaction in order to estimate the result of various applications of land use patterns, silvicultural systems, and forest practice techniques in the watershed.

Presenter Profile

This talk will cover topics on national park development,includingpolicies and practices of wildlife and environmental protection, the management of financial problems, conservation and exploitation of natural resources, heritage protection, aboriginal and visitor management of national parks, both thelessons from history and trends in the future.Thistalkwill explore the possibilities ofresearch collaborationsand student exchangeopportunities.