Sessions 4:Geo-sciences

Bojie Fu

Character introduction

Dr Bojie Fu is a distinguished professor of Geography and landscape ecology at the State key Lab. of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is Dean of Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University. He is the member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, International Honorary Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences,Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for Developing World (TWAS) and Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society Edinburgh UK. He is the Director of Division of Geosciences of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research areas are land use and land cover change, landscape pattern and ecological processes, ecosystem services and management. He has published more than 400 scientific papers and 10 books, including Science, Nature, Nature Geoscience and Nature Climate change. His prizes include China National Natural Science Prize, Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize of CAS, The Ho Leung Ho Lee Science and Technology Prize-Geosciences, and Award of Distinguished Service of the International Association of Landscape Ecology.

Topic: Coupling Human - Earth Systems for Sustainability

Abstract  Human influence on the natural environment has intensified, and the earth has entered the stage of Anthropocene. Earth surface processes are gradually dominated by human behavior, resulting in numerous resources, disasters and ecological problems. The ecosystem services of 60% are degradation in the world. The one of major challenges facing the world’s people are meeting the needs of people today and in the future, and sustaining atmosphere, water, soil and biological products which provided by ecosystems. We will present how to coupling human-earth system and propose the research priorities. Finally a “classification-coordination-collaboration” framework to accelerate the global implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was proposed. Among them, classification is the basis, which aims to identify the main features of different SDGs, the development diversities of different countries and the influence of different scales. Coordination is the core, which aims to improve the policy consistency of different management departments and strengthen the connection between countries through formulating reasonable policies to guarantee the coordination of SDGs. Collaboration is the key to the overall implementation of SDGs.  

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