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
Solinska-Nowak, A., Magnuszewski, P., Curl, M., French, A., Keating, A., Mochizuki, J. , Liu, W. , Mechler, R. , Kulakowska, M., & Jarzabek, L. (2018). An overview of serious games for disaster risk management – Prospects and limitations for informing actions to arrest increasing risk. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 31 1013-1029. 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.09.001.
Mochizuki, J. , Keating, A., Liu, W. , Hochrainer-Stigler, S., & Mechler, R. (2018). An overdue alignment of risk and resilience? A conceptual contribution to community resilience. Disasters 42 (2) 361-391. 10.1111/disa.12239.
Liu, W. , Dugar, S., McCallum, I. , Thapa, G., See, L. , Khadka, P., Budhathoki, N., Brown, S., Mechler, R. , Fritz, S. , & Shakya, P. (2018). Integrated Participatory and Collaborative Risk Mapping for Enhancing Disaster Resilience. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 7 (2) p. 68. 10.3390/ijgi7020068.
Paul, J.D., Buytaert, W., Allen, S., Ballesteros-Cánovas, J.A., Bhusal, J., Cieslik, K., Clark, J., Dugar, S., Hannah, D.M., Stoffel, M., Dewulf, A., Dhital, M.R., Liu, W. , Nayaval, J.L., Neupane, B., Schiller, A., Smith, P.J., & Supper, R. (2018). Citizen science for hydrological risk reduction and resilience building. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water 5 (1) e1262. 10.1002/wat2.1262.
Mechler, R. , Calliari, E., Bouwer, L., Schinko, T. , Surminski, S., Linnerooth-Bayer, J., Aerts, J., Botzen, W., Boyd, E., Deckard, N., Fuglestvedt, J.S., González-Eguino, M., Haasnoot, M., Handmer, J., Haque, M., Heslin, A., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Huggel, C., Huq, S., James, R., Jones, R.G., Juhola, S., Keating, A., Kienberger, S., Kreft, S., Kuik, O., Landauer, M., Laurien, F. , Lawrence, J., Lopez, A., Liu, W. , Magnuszewski, P., Markandya, A., Mayer, B., McCallum, I. , McQuistan, C., Meyer, L., Mintz-Woo, K. , Montero-Colbert, A., Mysiak, J., Nalau, J., Noy, I., Oakes, R., Otto, F.E.L., Pervin, M., Roberts, E., Schäfer, L., Scussolini, P., Serdeczny, O., de Sherbinin, A., Simlinger, F., Sitati, A., Sultana, S., Young, H.R., van der Geest, K., van den Homberg, M., Wallimann-Helmer, I., Warner, K., & Zommers, Z. (2018). Science for Loss and Damage. Findings and Propositions. In: Loss and Damage from Climate Change. Eds. Mechler, R. , Bouwer, L., Schinko, T. , Surminski, S., & Linnerooth-Bayer, J., pp. 3-37 Cham, Switzerland: Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-72025-8 10.1007/978-3-319-72026-5_1.