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
Ziervogel, G., New, M., & Liu, W. (2019). Making cities water-wise and climate-resilient - Lessons and experience from the Cape Town drought. Landscape Architecture Frontiers 7 (3) 94-99. 10.15302/J-LAF-1-030002.
Liu, W. (2019). Operationalizing polycentricity for landscape resilience. Landscape Architecture Frontiers 7 (3) 8-11. 10.15302/J-LAF-1-010002.
Niu, K., Liu, W. , Xiao, Z., Wu, A., Yang, T., Riondato, I., Ellwanger, A.L., Ang, A., Gamba, M., Yang, Y., & Giacoma, C. (2019). Exploring Local Perceptions of and Attitudes toward Endangered François’ Langurs (Trachypithecus francoisi) in a Human-Modified Habitat. International Journal of Primatology 40 (3) 331-355. 10.1007/s10764-019-00091-0.
Khadka, P., Liu, W. , & Schiller, A. (2019). Roads, Landslides and Local Socio-ecological Resilience in Far Western Nepal. In: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2019, 7–12 April 2019, Vienna, Austria.
Hu, K., Guo, Y., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Liu, W. , See, L. , Yang, X., Zhong, J., Fei, F., Chen, F., Zhang, Y., Zhao, Q., Chen, G., Chen, Q., Zhang, Y., Ye, T., Ma, L., Li, S., & Qi, J. (2019). Evidence for Urban–Rural Disparity in Temperature–Mortality Relationships in Zhejiang Province, China. Environmental Health Perspectives 127 (3) e037001. 10.1289/EHP3556.