SEPR 2019, Shanghai Keynote Speakers

Topical area 1 Exploring the right ways to close the gap in socio-ecological practice

Modest successes and epic failures in closing the theory-practice gap in natural resource management Steven Cooke Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

To close the theory-practice gap in socio-ecological practice: Explorations and reflections Christine Fürst Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

Following the dual logic of practice and science in the socio-ecological practice of ecological restoration Yuncai Wang Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Exploring the Ways to Close the Gap in Socio-ecological Practice—Take Application of Multi-Functional Dike Pond as an Example Xingzhong Yuan Chongqing University,Chongqing, China

Topical area 2 Cultivating the right ways to close the gap in socio-ecological practice

Ecological civilization, socio-ecological practice research, and Jianguo (Jingle) Wu , Tempe, USA

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The quest of Ecopracticology: A Magellanic voyage or an Icarian flight? Wei-Ning Xiang University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, USA

Topical area 3 Celebrating the right ways to close the gap in socio-ecological practice

Ecophronesis, pragmatism, and the reframing of the theory-practice gap John Forester , Ithaca, NY, USA

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Steven Cooke is a Canada Research Chair and Professor of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Sciences at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His work spans the natural and social sciences with a particular focus on developing solutions to problems facing fish and other aquatic organisms. With the belief that bi- directional knowledge exchange with potential knowledge users is integral to meaningful scholarly research, Cooke has much experience working with practitioners, policy makers and stakeholders to co-create usable knowledge. He founded the Canadian Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation and is working with diverse partners to build capacity for evidence synthesis in his various roles in the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence ( http://www.environmentalevidence.org/). He has published more than 700 peer reviewed papers on topics such as conservation science, knowledge mobilization and enabling interdisciplinarity. Cooke is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and the Secretary of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. Check out his website at www.FECPL.ca or follow him on twitter @SJC_Fishy

Christine Fürst is a full professor for Sustainable Landscape Development and the executive director of the Institute for Geosciences and Geography at Martin Luther University (MLU), Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. She graduated from Ludwig- Maximilian University at Munich with a bachelor’s degree in forestry science, and received her doctorate in soil science from Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany. She completed her habilitation (second doctoral degree) at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University at Bonn in the agricultural faculty, and served as an interim group leader at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, before joining the faculty at MLU. Her main research interests are in socio-ecological systems models and applications, services assessments, and spatial planning. Since 2015, she serves as the president of the International Association for Landscape (IALE).

Yuncai Wang is a Professor of Landscape Planning and Design, and the associate chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He received his BS degree in Geography and MS in regional planning from Shaanxi Normal University, and PhD in Human Geography from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since joined the Tongji faculty in 2001, his teaching and research have been focused on ecological planning and design, and landscape pattern language for landscape expression and spatial reasoning. Wang is the author or co-author of 150 scholar publications and 6 books. Among his best known books are Pattern Language: A New Approach to Landscape Expression and Spatial Reasoning (2018), The Method of Landscape and Regional Eco-planning (2018), The Principles of Landscape Ecological Planning (2007, 2014). With extensive experience in ecological planning and design throughout different regions of China, Wang won many governmental and professional association awards.

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Xingzhong Yuan is a Professor, doctoral tutor in College of Resources and Environmental Science, Chongqing University, China, with a BS degree in from Southwest Normal University, China and Ph.D in ecology from East China Normal University, China. Professor Yuan is the member of the National Wetland Science and Technology Committee, the executive director of China Wetland Protection Association, the vice president of Chongqing Ecological Society. He is mainly engaged in the research work about wetland ecology and ecosystem ecology. Recent years, he has completed a number of wetland ecological basic research projects and engineering application projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology in China, the Chinese National Natural Science Fund. Yuan has established a series of innovative technical systems in the fields of river wetland restoration, reservoir wetland restoration and adaptive functional wetland design. He has published more than 200 papers in Science, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Ecological Indictors, Ecological Engineering, et al. and 10 books.

Jianguo Wu is Dean’s Distinguished Professor of /Sustainability Science in School of Life Sciences & School of Sustainability, Arizona State University. He graduated from Inner University (1982) and received his MS and Ph.D. from Miami University (1987, 1991). He was NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University and (1991-1993). His research areas include landscape ecology, , and sustainability science, in which he has authored about 350 publications. He has been Editor-in-Chief of Landscape Ecology since 2005; Program Chair, US Association for Landscape Ecology (2001); Founding Director, Sino-US Center of Conservation, Energy and Sustainability Science (2007-2012) and Center for Human-Environment System Sustainability, Beijing Normal University (2012-). His awards include American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Award for International Scientific Cooperation (2006); Distinguished Landscape Ecologist Award from US Association for Landscape Ecology (2010); and Outstanding Scientific Achievements Award from International Association for Landscape Ecology (2011).

Wei-Ning Xiang is a Professor of Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA, with a BS degree in Geography from Beijing Normal University, China; a master’s degree in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA; and a doctorate in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley, USA. He was a fellow at a number of institutions, including the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at Berkeley, the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis at Santa Barbara, and the Oxford Scenarios Program at Oxford, UK; and directed the Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, Shanghai, China (2011—2016). He is an adjunct Professor of Socio-Ecological Practice Research at Tongji University, Shanghai, China since 2016. The former co-editor-in-chief of Landscape and Urban Planning (2011—2018), he is the founding editor-in-chief of Socio-Ecological Practice Research (SEPR).

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John Forester is a Professor of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University, USA. He received his B.S. (1970) and M.S. (1971) in Mechanical Engineering and his M.C.P. (1974) and Ph.D. (1977) in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. At Cornell, he has been Director of Graduate Studies, Department Chair, and Associate Dean of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. Having mined sabbatical research twice at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at the Technion, University of Amsterdam, and Sapienza University (Rome), Forester’s research focuses on the micro-politics of planning: issues of power and conflict, negotiation and mediation, and practices of organizing, deliberation and improvisation. Among his best known books are Planning in the Face of Power (1989), The Deliberative Practitioner (1999), and Dealing with Differences: Dramas of Mediating Public Disputes (2009). More recent publications include Planning in the Face of Conflict (2013), Conflict, Improvisation, Governance (with David Laws, 2015), Rebuilding Community After Katrina (2016), and Reimagining Planning: How Italian Urban Planners are Changing Planning Practices (2018). A senior editor of Planning Theory and Practice, Forester gathers and assesses practice-focused oral histories—a method co-developed with colleague Scott Peters—to learn through the engagement, and the challenges, of diverse socio-ecological practices.

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