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Impacts and Feedbacks of Payments for Ecosystem Services in China’s Protected Areas
December 5, 2018 @ 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm

The UNC Center for Urban and Regional Studies presents:
A Brown Bag Lunch Seminar by Xiaodong Chen, PhD
Associate Professor of Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill
2018-19 CURS Scholar-in-Residence
Reading Room, New East 211 | Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 12:30-1:45 PM
Beverages and light dessert provided
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) have increasingly been implemented to protect and restore ecosystems worldwide, producing complex impacts and feedbacks on socioeconomic and environmental outcomes. Dr. Chen will discuss China’s two nationwide PES programs and their impacts on human livelihoods, the environment and complex human-environment interactions.