Experience

• Research assistant, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing (1988-93)
• Researcher, University of Helsinki (1994-2000)
• Post-doc fellow, University Toronto (2001)
• Research associate/Post-doc fellow, University of Alberta (2002-03)

Research Interests

• Forest land use change
• Non-market valuation
• Property rights and institutions
• International forestry and forest history
• Sustainable forest management and rural development
  
• Current CV

Selected Publications

• Zhang, Y., Shen, Y., Wen, Y., Xie, Y., Wang, S. 2014. China’s Forestland Tenure Reforms: Redefining and Recontracting the Bundle of Rights. In Handbook of Forest Resource Economics. Routledge. (ed. Kant, S. and J. R. R. Alavalapati), Chapter 27.
• Xu, Y., M.F. Smidt, and Y. Zhang. 2014. Logging worker wage, performance, and experience. Forest Products Journal 64(5/6):210-216.
• Li, S., Y. Zhang and D. Nadolnyak. 2014. Fertilizer Industry Subsidies in China: Who are the Beneficiaries? China Agricultural Economic Review 6 (3): 433-451.
• Li, S., Z. Yang, D. Nadolnyak, Y. Zhang and Y. Luo. 2014. Economic impacts of climate change: profitability of freshwater aquaculture in China. Aquaculture Research, 2014, 1–12.
• Li, S., Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang, L. Zhang and L. Wang. 2014. Willingness to Pay for the Urban River Ecosystem Restoration in Hangzhou and Nanjing, China. World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development 11)1): 14-25.
• Qi, X., Y. Cheng, Y. Zhang, Y. Xu and L. Xu. 2014. Water and Soil Conservation from the Perspective of Stakeholders. CLEAN: Soil, Air, Water 42(7): 956-962
• Zhang, Y., W. Geng, Y. Shen, Y. Wang, and Y.C. Dai. 2014. Edible Mushroom Cultivation for Food Security and Rural Development in China. Sustainability 6: 2961-2973.
• Qiao, G., Y. Zhang, and L. Zhen. 2013. Economic Methods for Ecological System. In Chen, J., Yang, S. (eds): Research Methods for Terrestrial Ecology. HEP Publishing House. Beijing.
• Gao, L., Y. Zhang, Q. Qiao, and J. Chen. 2013. Grasslands Degradation and Restoration in Inner Mongolia from the 1950s to 2000s: Population, Policies, and Profits. In Chen., J., S. Wan, J. Qi, G. Henerbry, M Kappas, and G. Sun (Eds.): Region of East Asia: Land Dynamics amid Social and Climate Change. HEP Publisher and De Gruyter. Pp: 405-423.
• Csaba Mátyás, C., G. Sun, and Y. Zhang. Afforestation and forests at the dry land edges: Lessons learned and future outlooks. 2013. In Chen., J., S. Wan, J. Qi, G. Henerbry, M Kappas, and G. Sun (eds.): Region of East Asia: Land Dynamics amid Social and Climate Change. HEP Publisher and De Gruyter. Pp: 245-264.
• Chen, J., R. John, G. Qiao, O. Batkhishig, W. Yuan, Y. Zhang, C. Shao, Z. Ouyang, L. Li, K. Guo, and G. Sun. 2013. State and Change of Dry land East Asia (DEA). In Chen., J., S. Wan, J. Qi, G. Henerbry, M Kappas, and G. Sun (eds.): Region of East Asia: Land Dynamics amid Social and Climate Change. HEP Publisher and De Gruyter. Pp: 3-42.
• Zhang, Y., and S. Majumdar. 2013. Land expectation value to profit maximization: re-examination of the Faustmann Formula. In Kant, S. (Ed.): Post-Faustmann Forest Resource Economics. Springer. Pp: 277-288.
• Majumdar, S., Y. Zhang, and D. Hite. 2013. State attributes and destination choice by freshwater anglers: An analysis of the southeast United States. Tourism Economics 19 (3), 719-728.
• Zhang, Y., E. Rafailova, and A. Hussain. 2013. Ecosystem services payment and non-market valuation: implication for Bulgarian private forest management. Forestry Ideas 19 (1): 49-57.
• Shen, Y., X. Wang, F. Wang, Z. Zhu, and Y. Zhang. 2013. Carbon Sequestration Supply and Its Influencing Factors for Farmers Operating Fir in Chinese Southern Collective Forest Zone. China Population Resources and Environment 23 (8): 140-147.
• Shen, Y., F. Wang, Y. Zhang, Z. Zhu, and X. Wang. 2013. Economic Analysis of Chinese Fir Forest Carbon Sequestration Supply in South China. Scientia Silvae Sinicae 49 (9): 140-147.
• Xu, X., Y. Zhang, L. Li, and S. Yang. 2013. Markets of Forestland Use Rights: Case Study in the Southern China. Land Use Policy 30 (1): 560-569.
• International Journal of Tourism Research 15: 197-208 (DOI: 10.1002/jtr.880): 2013. Impact of property rights reform on household forest management investment: An empirical study of southern China. Forest Policy and Economics 34: 73-78.
• Zheng, B. and Y. Zhang. . 2013. Household Expenditures for Leisure Tourism in the United States, 1996 and 2006. International Journal of Tourism Research 15: 197-208 (DOI: 10.1002/jtr.880):
• Zhang, Y., Majumdar, S. 2012. Land expectation value to profit maximization: re-examination of the Faustmann Formula. In Kant, S. (Ed.): Post-Faustmann Forest Resource Economics. Springer.
• Qi, S., Zhang, Y., Wang, H., Li, L., Wang, J., Wang, D., Yu, X., Liu, J. 2012. Restoration of Forest Riparian Buffer Strips on the Upper Reaches of the Qin River, Shanxi Province. Tree and Forestry Sciences and Biotechnology 6: 75-80.
• Tian, G., Qiao, Z., Zhang, Y. 2012. The Investigation of Relationship between Rural Settlement Density, Size, Spatial Distribution and Its Geophysical Parameters of China using Landsat TM images. Ecological Modelling 231:25-36.
• Wang, C., Yang, Y., Zhang, Y. 2012. Change in rural household livelihoods, fuel-wood substitution and ecosystem restoration. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews 16 (5): 2475-2482.
• Zhang, Y. and L. Teeter. 2012. Economic explanation for privatization of forests and forestland: Canada and the United States. International Forestry Review, Vol.14(2): 184-195.
• Zhu, Z., Shen, Y., Zhang, Y. Shi, W., Wang, F. 2012. Study on Change of Forestland Expected Value and Carbon Supply in the Objective of Carbon Sequestration: Based on the Chinese Fir Plantation in Bared Land. Scientia Silvae Sinicae 48 (11): 112-116 {25%}
• Zheng, B., Zhang, Y. 2012. Household Expenditures for Leisure Tourism in the United States, 1996 and 2006. International Journal of Tourism Research (DOI: 10.1002/jtr.880):
• Zhang, Y., Zheng, B. 2012. Urban Trees Programs from Municipal Officials Perspective: Evidence from Alabama. Arboriculture & Urban Forestry 38 (4): 160-167.
• Smidt, M.F., Y. Zhang. B. Zheng. 2012. Financial assessment of logging residue collection in the southeast United States. Forest Products Journal 62(1):10-17
• Zhang, Y. 2012. Property rights and pricing ecosystem service payment: evidence from forestry CDM and VCM. International Symposium of Forest Economics, Beijing, October 13-14, Pp 254-265.
• Shen, Y., Zhang, Y. 2011. Forestry Econmics. China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, China (Textbook written in Chinese and used in China)
• Majumdara, S., Deng, J., Zhang, Y., Pierskallab, C. 2011.Using contingent valuation to estimate the willingness of tourists to pay for urban forests: A study in Savannah, Georgia. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2011.07.006.
• Majumdar, S., Zhang, D., Zhang, Y. 2011. Estimating Regional Softwood Lumber Supply in the United States Using Seemingly Unrelated Regression. Forest Products Journal 60 (7/8): 709-714.
• Geng, W., Zhang, Y. 2011.Skill Content of Trade and Carbon Dioxide Emissions. International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics 21(11): 82-91.
• Zhang, Y., Zheng, B. 2011.Assessments of Citizen Willingness to Support Urban Forestry: An Empirical Study in Alabama. Arboriculture and Urban Forestry 37 (3): 118-125.
• Wang, C., Yang, Y., Zhang, Y. 2011. Economic Development, Rural livelihoods, and Ecological Restoration. AMBIO 40 (1): 78-87.
• Tian, G., Jiang, J., Yang, Z., Zhang, Y. 2011. The Urban Growth, Size Distribution and Spatio-temporal Dynamic Pattern of the Yangtze River Delta Megalopolitan Region, China. Ecological Modeling 222 (3): 865-878.
• Zheng, B., Zhang, Y., Chen, J. 2011. Preferences to home landscape: wildness vs. neatness. Landscape and Urban Planning 99: 1-8.
• Zhang, Y., Majumdra, I., Schelhas, J. 2010. Changes in woodland use from longleaf pine to loblolly pine. Sustainability 2: 2734-2745.
• Shen, Y., Zhang, Y., Xu, X., Zhu, Z., Jiang, C. 2009. Towards decentralization and privatization of China's collective forestlands: A study of 9 villages in three provinces. International Forestry Review 11(4): 28-35.
• Nguyen, M.D., Shen, Y., Zhang, Y., Smidt, M. 2009. Logging productivity and production function in Alabama, 1995 to 2000. Forest Product Journal 59(7/8): 22-26.
• Majumdar, S., Zhang, Y. 2009. Market for green signaling. The Business Review, Cambridge 13 (2): 87-92.
• Zhang, Y. Zheng, B., Allen, B., Letson, N., Sibley, J. 2009. Tree ordinances as public policy and participation tools: Development in Alabama. Arboriculture and Urban Forestry 35 (3): 166-172.
• Pan, Y., *Zhang, Y., Majumdar, I. 2009. Population, Economic Welfare and Holding Size Distribution of Private Forestland in Alabama, USA. Silva Fennica 43(1): 161Ð171.
• Zhang, Y., Liao, X., Butler, B.J. and Schelhas, J. 2009. The Increasing Importance of Small-Scale Forestry: Evidence from Family Forest Ownership Patterns in the United States. Small-Scale Forestry 8: 1-14.
• Zhang, Y., Deng, J., Majumdar, S., Zheng, B. 2009. Globalization of Lifestyle: Golfing in China. In H. Lange and L. Meier, eds. Globalizing Lifestyles, Consumerism, and Environmental Concern: The Case of the New Middle Class. Springer. pp:163-179.
• Zhang, Y., Zheng, B. 2009. How Lawn Become a Major Theme of American Home Gardening, In D. O'Brien (Ed.), Gardening and Philosophy: Cultivating Wisdom. Blackwell-Wiley Publisher
• Liao, X., Zhang, Y. 2008. An Econometric Analysis of Softwood Production in the U.S. South: A Comparison of Industrial and Nonindustrial Forest Ownerships. Forest Product Journal
• Zhang, Y., Liao, X., Butler, B.J. and Schelhas, J. 2008. The Increasing Importance of Small-Scale Forestry: Evidence from Family Forest Ownership Patterns in the United States. Small-Scale Forestry
• Liao, X., Zhang, Y. 2008. Economic Impacts of Shifting Sloping Farm Lands to Forest Lands in China. Agricultural Systems (in Press).
• Zhu, P., Zhang, Y. 2008. Demand for Urban Forests in United States Cities. Landscape and Urban Planning (in Press).
• Pan, Y., Zhang, Y. 2007. Trends among family forest owners in Alabama, 1994-2004. Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 31(3): 117-123.
• Tian, G., Yang, Z., Zhang, Y. 2007. The Spatio-Temporal Dynamic Pattern of Rural Residential Land in China in the 1990s Using Landsat TM images and GIS. Environmental Management 40: 803-813.
• Deng, J., Zhang, Y., Schelhas, J. 2007. National Parks: The Paradise or Paradox. ASEAN Journal on Hospitality and Tourism 6 (2):
• Zhang, Y., Hussian, A., Deng, J., Letson, N. 2007. Public Attitudes Toward Urban Trees and Supporting Urban Tree Programs. Environment and Behavior.
• Zhu, P., Zhang, Y. 2006. Demand for urban forests and economic welfare: evidence from the Southeastern U.S. Cities. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 38 (2): 279-285.
• Guo. Z., Zhang, Y., Deegen, P., Uibrig, H. 2006. Economic Analyses of rubber and tea plantation and rubber-tea intercropping in Hainan. Agroforestry Systems 6 (2): 117-127.
• Lu, W., Sibley, J.L., Gilliam, C. H., Bannon, J.S., Zhang, Y. 2006. Estimation of U.S. Bark Generation and Implications for Horticultural Industries. Journal of Environmental Horticulture 24 (1): 29-34.
• Zhang, Y., Zhang, D., Schelhas, J. 2005. Small-scale non-industrial private forest ownership in the United States: Rational and Implications for forest management. Silva Fennica 39 (3):443-454.
• Zhang, Y., Li, Y. 2005. Reply to comment on "Valuing vs Pricing Natural and Environmental Resources" Environmental Science and Policy 8(2):189-190.
• Zhang, Y., Li, Y. 2005. Valuing versus Pricing Natural and Environmental Resources? Environmental Science and Policy 8(2): 179-186.
• Zhang, Y., Kant, S. 2005. Collective forests and forestland: Physical asset rights versus economic rights. In “Developmental Dilemmas Land Reform and Institutional Change in China”. Ho, P. (Editor), Routledge Publisher; Pp: 283-307.
• Zhang, Y. 2005. Multiple-use forestry versus forestland-use specialization revisited. Forest Policy and Economics, 7(2): 143-156.
• Deng, J., Qiang, S., Walker, G., and Zhang, Y. Assessment on and Perception of Environmental Impacts: Nature Tourism in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 11(6): 529-548.
• Adamowicz, W., Boxall, P., Haener, M., Zhang, Y. Dosman, D., Marois, J. An assessment of the impacts of forest management on Aboriginal hunters: evidence from stated and revealed preference data. Forest Science, 50(2): 139-152.
• Zhang, Y. 2002. The impacts of economic reforms on the efficiency of silviculture: a non-parametric approach. Environment and Development Economics 7 (1): 107-122.
• Zhang, Y. 2001. Institutions in forest management. In Palo, M. Uusivuori, J. and Mery, G. (eds.): World Forests, Market and Policies. Kluwer Academic. pp: 353-364.
• Zhang, Y. 2001. Economics of transaction costs saving forestry. Ecological Economics 36(2): 197-204.
• Zhang, Y. 2001. Deforestation and forest transition: theory and evidence from China. In Palo, M. Vanhanen, H. (Eds): World Forests from Deforestation to Transition? Kluwer Academic. pp: 41-65.
• Zhang, Y., Uusivuori, J., Kuuluvainen, J. 2000. Econometric analysis of the causes of forest land Use change in Hainan, China. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 30: 1913-1921
• Zhang, Y., Uusivuori, J., Kuuluvainen, J. 2000. Impacts of economic reforms on rural forestry in China. Forest Policy and Economics 1(1): 27-40.
• Zhang, Y. 2000. Costs of plans vs. costs of markets: reforms in China's state-owned forest management. Development Policy Review 18 (3): 285-306.
• Zhang, Y. and Dai, G., et al. 1999. The Forest Sector in China: Towards a Market Economy. World Forests, Society and Environment Vol.1: 371-393.