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SUMMARY:Professor Xiangzheng Deng - graduate student seminar
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DESCRIPTION:Professor Xiangzheng Deng\, from the Chinese Academy of Scien
 ces is visiting Manchester Urban Institute with funding from the Univers
 ity's Simon Visiting Professorship scheme.\n\nAs well as his public talk
  on Thursday 15 June\, Professor Deng is holding a seminar with graduate
  students to discuss comparative research projects.\n\nProfessor Xiangzh
 eng Deng has specialized in geography and urbanization research for more
  than fifteen years. He is widely regarded as a leader in the field both
  in China and in the international community. He was a recipient of the 
 Outstanding Young Scientist Award from the National Natural Science Foun
 dation of China\, Science and Technology Awards of Chinese Academy of Fi
 shery Sciences\, Science and Technology Awards of Hainan Province\, Youn
 g Scientist Program (YSSP) fellowship\, IIASA-NSFC\, and Young scientist
  fellowship of the UN MA Project\, MA Board and Secretariat. He is Membe
 r of the Steering Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimens
 ions Programme (IHD) on Urbanisation and Global Environmental Change\; C
 onsultant of the UK Ecosystem services and poverty alleviation project f
 or NERC\, ESRC and DfID\; Consultant of the UN Food and Agriculture Orga
 nization’s environment-friendly ecological agriculture development strat
 egy research project for the Yellow River Basin response to climate chan
 ge (2008-2010)\; and Consultant of World Bank’s Guangxi Integrated Fores
 try Development and Conservation Project (2005-2010).\n\nHis research is
  on land change science\; environment science\; and management\, policy 
 and links between urbanization\, climate change\, and sustainability. He
  is an expert on land use change dynamic\, forecasting changes in ecosys
 tem functions and services\, simulating the urbanization expansion and e
 xamining the impact of urbanization on land productivity and cultivated 
 land area changes in China. He has pioneered the use of methods such as 
 GIS technologies\, econometric analyses and land change science to revea
 l the conflicts between food security\, urbanization and ecological prot
 ection. He has made important achievement in the development and the exp
 ansion of regional applications of CGELUC (Computable General Equilibriu
 m of Land Use Changes) model and DLS (Dynamics of Land System) model\; r
 esearch on innovative approach of and empirical studies on the competiti
 on and optimization of land and water uses\; and efforts in integrating 
 econometric methodologies and spatial analysis approaches into the study
  on dynamics and consequences of urbanization.\n
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