Wei Liu
Guest Research Scholar
Equity and Justice Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
Biography
Wei Liu joined the Risk and Resilience (RISK) Program at IIASA in 2012, and is currently leader of the Governance in Transition research area. Trained in ecology and social sciences, he collaborates with academia, NGOs and government and combines hard and soft systems modeling with stakeholder participatory processes and citizen science approaches on research related to resilience and sustainability transitions of complex socio-techno-ecological systems. His current research projects, mostly funded by international programs such as H2020, include community resilience in the Himalayas, nature-based solutions for disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation in Europe, social-ecological impacts of infrastructure development in Southern Africa, and anticipatory governance of emerging technologies such as synthetic biology, etc..Dr. Liu also devotes a substantial amount of his time to capacity building activities, developing and facilitating serious games to enhance systems thinking/analysis capacity for a varied audience (from young researchers to practitioners). Additionally, he provides consultancy services and policy advice to a range of governmental agencies and international non-governmental organizations, often on the topics of biodiversity conservation, climate and/or disaster risk and resilience, and poverty reduction.
Last update: 31 JUL 2018
Publications
ADB & OECD (2020). Leveraging Technology and Innovation for Disaster Risk Management and Financing. Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) , Manila/Paris. 10.22617/TCS200393-2.
Parajuli, B.P., Khadka, P., Baskota, P., Shakya, P., Liu, W. , Pudasaini, U., B.C., R., Paul, J., Buytaert, W., & Vij, S. (2020). An Open Data and Citizen Science Approach to Building Resilience to Natural Hazards in a Data-Scarce Remote Mountainous Part of Nepal. Sustainability 12 (22) e9448. 10.3390/su12229448.
Fang, J., Liu, M., Liu, W. , Pathak, S., Li, S., Tang, X., Zhou, L., & Sun, F. (2020). Piloting a capital-based approach for characterizing and evaluating drivers of island sustainability- An application in Chongming Island. Journal of Cleaner Production 261 e121123. 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121123.
Parajuli, B.P., Shakya, P., Khadka, P., Liu, W. , & Pudasaini, U. (2020). Open data in building resilience to recurrent natural hazards in remote mountainous communities of Nepal. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-4761. In: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2020, 4-8 May 2020, Vienna, Austria.
Khadka, P., Liu, W. , Parajuli, B.P., & Pudasaini, U. (2020). Participatory mapping and collaborative action for inclusive and sustainable mountain landscape development in Far West Nepal. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-17907. In: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2020, 4-8 May 2020, Vienna, Austria.