Luo, Junyan

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Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University

Junyan Luo's research interests reside in the theory and applications of geographical information systems (GIS) and spatial analysis, especially how to use visual and computational methods to assist and simplify the acquisition, analysis and understanding of geographical information. One of his current focuses at the Human-Nature Lab/Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability is geographical knowledge representation and automated data integration, which seeks to use cutting-edge technologies such as Semantic Web to integrate the diverse sources of information involved in coupled human and natural systems studies.

Research Interests:

geographical information systems, spatial analysis

Home Page:

Junyan Luo's website

Publications:

Drivers and Socioeconomic Impacts of Tourism Participation in Protected Areas

CHANS Projects:

International Network of Research on Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS_Net)

Sponsors

National Science Foundation (NSF) - The only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences. We are tasked with keeping the United States at the leading edge of discovery in areas from astronomy to geology to zoology. So, in addition to funding research in the traditional academic areas, the agency also supports "high-risk, high pay-off" ideas, novel collaborations and numerous projects that may seem like science fiction today, but which the public will take for granted tomorrow.

Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University - A center of excellence that integrates ecology with socioeconomics, demography, and other disciplines for ecological sustainability from local, national, to global scales.

Global Land Project - A joint research project for land systems in the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and the International Human Dimensions Programme.

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Coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) are integrated systems in which humans and natural components interact. CHANS research has recently emerged as an exciting and integrative field of cross-disciplinary scientific inquiry, with research projects covering a variety of coupled systems in locations spanning the globe. Although individual projects have generated many important insights, it is essential to systematically transform the field to be more than the sum of its parts and provide broader insights of greater scientific and societal significance than those resulting from individual projects alone. The goal of CHANS-Net is to foster this transformation by facilitating communication and collaboration among members of the CHANS research community.

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