Pandas and People: Coupling Human and Natural Systems for Sustainability

Jianguo Liu, Vanessa Hull, Wu Yang, Andrés Viña, Xiaodong Chen, Zhiyun Ouyang, and Hemin Zhang

ABSTRACT

This book synthesizes two decades of interdisciplinary research on complex interactions between a global conservation icon (the giant panda) and people, as well as its applications to human–nature interactions and sustainability across local to global scales. Guided by the coupled human and natural systems framework, an international team of natural and social scientists has conducted intensive and integrated studies in Wolong Nature Reserve in China since 1996. Wolong lies within a global biodiversity hotspot and is home to the world-famous endangered panda. It is also home to several thousan ... More

Keywords: biodiversity, China, coupled human and natural system, giant panda, interdisciplinary, long-term research, sustainability, Wolong Nature Reserve

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