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Assessing Preferences for and Attitudes towards Urban Forests in Suburban Communities

EDUCATION: 

• BS, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (China), 1986, Forest Economics
• M.Ag, Chinese Academy of Forestry, 1990, Forest Economics and Management
• PhD, University of Helsinki, 2001, Social Economics of Forestry.

 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:

• Economics and policy of urban forests and ecosystem
• Land use and land cover change
• landscape perception and culture
• Private forestry
• Environmental history
• Non-market valuation of natural resource and environment
• Property rights and institutions
• International forestry and forest history
• Sustainable forest management and rural development

PUBLICATIONS:

• Schelhas. J., Zhang, Y., Zabawa, R., Zheng, B. Exploring family forest landowner diversity: place, race, and gender in Alabama. International Journal of Social Forestry (in Press)

• Li, S., Zhang, Y., Nadolnyak, D. Fertilizer Industry Subsidies in China: Who are the Beneficiaries? China Agricultural Economic Review (In Press)

• Zhang, Y., Geng, W., Shen, Y., Wang, Y., Dai, Y.C.2 014. Edible Mushroom Cultivation for Food Security and Rural Development in China: Bio-Innovation, Technological Dissemination and Marketing. Sustainability 6: 2961-2973. doi:10.3390/su6052961

• Li, S., Zhang, Y. and Zhang, Y. Willingness to Pay for the Urban River Ecosystem Restoration in Hangzhou and Nanjing, China. World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development. (In Press)

• Qi, X., Cheng, Y., Zhang, Y., Xu, Y., Xu, L. 2013.  Water and Soil Conservation from the perspective of stakeholders: Evidence from China and policy implications. CLEAN-Soil, Air Water.  (In Press): DOI: 10.1002/clen.201300076

• Xu, X., *Zhang, Y., Li, L., Yang, S. 2013. Markets of Forestland Use Rights: Case Study in the Southern China. Land Use Policy 30 (1): 560-569.

• Majumdar, S., Zhang, Y., Hite, D. 2013. State attributes and destination choice by freshwater anglers: An analysis of the southeast United States. Tourism Economics 19 (3): 719-728.

• 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.

• 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.

•    Zhang, Y., Teeter, L. 2012. Economic explanation for privatization of forests and forestland: Canada and the United States. International Forestry Review 14 (2): 184-195.

•  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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 & Urban Forestry 35 (3): 166-172.

• Liao, X., Zhang, Y., Sun, C. 2009. Investments in Timberland and Softwood Timber as Parts of Portfolio Selection in the U.S.: A Cointegration Analysis and Capital Asset Pricing Model. Forest Science 55 (6): 471-479.

• Pan, Y., *Zhang, Y., Majumdar, I. 2009. Population, Economic Welfare and Holding Size Distribution of Private Forestland in Alabama, USA. Silva Fennica 43(1): 161–171.

• Zhang, X., Yan, Z., Chen, B., Chen, G., Zhang, Y. 2009. Temporal and spatial variations of energy consumption in rural China. Commun Nonlinear Sci Numer Simulat 14 (2009) 4022–4031.

• 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.

• 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 59 (11): 69-74.

• Liao, X., Zhang, Y. 2008. Economic Impacts of Shifting Sloping Farm Lands to Forest Lands in China. Agricultural Systems 97: 48-55.

• Zhu, P., Zhang, Y. 2008. Demand for Urban Forests in United States Cities. Landscape and Urban Planning 84: 293-300.

• Lu, W., Yang, X., Sibley, J., Gilliam, C. H., Bannon, J.S., Zhang, Y. 2008. Utilization of mixed municipal solid waste compost as a soilless potting component in greenhouse production of four floricultural crops. Journal of Environmental Horticulture 26 (2): 75-79.

• 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: 131-146.

• 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.

• Li, Y., Xu, M., Zou, X., Shi, P.,  Zhang, Y. 2005.  Comparing of soil organic carbon dynamics in plantations and secondary forests in wet tropics in Puerto Rico. Global Change Biology 11 (2): 239-248.

• Feng, Z, Yang, Y. , Zhang, Y.,  Zhang, P., Li, Y.  2005. Grain-for-Green Policy and Its Impacts on Grain Supply in West China. Land Use Policy 22 (3):301-312.

• Adamowicz, V., Boxall, P., Haener, M., Zhang, Y., Dosman, S. and Marois, J. 2004. Assessing the impact of forest management on Aboriginal Hunters: Evidence from stated and revealed preference data. Forest Science 50 (2): 139-152.

• Deng, J., Shi, Q., Walker G. and Zhang, Y.  2003. Ecotourism in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park: Assessment and perception of visitors’ impacts on vegetation and soil.  Journal of Sustainable Tourism 11(6): 529-548. 

• Zhang, Y. Uusivuori, U.  Kuuluvannen, J and Kant, S. 2003. Deforestation and reforestation: the role of markets and institutions. In Book "China's Forests
  Global Lessons from Market Reforms" edited by Hyde, W., Belcher, B., W., Xu, J.  Resources for the Future, Washington DC.

• 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. Economics of Transaction Costs Saving Forestry. Ecological Economics 36(2):197-204.

• Zhang, Y. 2001. Institutions in Forest Management: Special Reference to China. World Forests, Society and environment Vol 3: 353-364.

• Zhang, Y., Uusivuori, J., Kuuluvainen, J. 2000. Econometric Analysis of the Causes of 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. 2000. Deforestation and Forest Transition: Theory and Evidence from China. World Forestry, Society and Environment Vol. 2:  41-65.

• 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.

• Kopylova, E., Zhang, Y., Palo, M. and Lobovikpv, M. 1999. Russian and Chinese Forests, Society and Environment in Transition. World Forests, Society and Environment Vol.1:  321-330.

 In Chinese (中文刊物)

•  沈月琴,  王枫, 张耀启,  朱臻,  王小玲 .2013.  中国南方杉木森林碳汇供给的经济分析. 林业科学 49(9):140-147

• 沈月琴,  王小玲, 王枫, 朱臻, 张耀启.  2013. 王枫农户经营杉木林的碳汇供给及其影响因素. 中国人口资源与环境 23 (8): 42-47.

• 朱臻, 沈月琴,  张耀启, 石文, 王枫 . 2012.  碳汇经营目标下的林地期望价值变化及碳供给： 基于杉木裸地造林假设研究. 林业科学 48(11): 112-116.

• 陈江生, 李录堂, 张耀启. 2001.从农村生源毕业生视角看我国农村人口乡城迁移及其影响因素.农村经济. 2011 年第2 期: 116-120.

• 陈江生 , 王彩绒 , 张耀启. 2011. 家庭背景因素对我国大学毕业生就业影响的实证分析: 基于2009 年的调查数据. 西北师大学报( 社会科学版) 48(2): 97-101.

• 张耀启,毛显强,李一清. 2007. 森林生态系统历史变迁的经济学解释.林业科学43(9):96-104

• 张耀启,潘羿,李一清. 2005. 评价自然与环境资源价值的的 误区. 自然资源学报20(3): 453-460

• 张耀启. 2003. 新西兰林业分类经营的再认识.  世界林业研究  16 (3): 52-57.

• 张耀启. 1997.森林生态效益经济补偿问题初探. 林业经济  1997 (2): 70-76.

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