International Symposium on the Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems 

Time: June 2 -3 

Location: room 2, Administration building, Wuhan Botanical Garden 

Sponsors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences 

Anhui Agricultural University 

June 2: 

8:00-8:15am: Checking in 

8:15-8:30am: Welcome from co-Chairs and Wuhan Botanical Garden, and Project Introduction 

8:30-9:00: Hongsheng Zhou, China’s Sloping Land Conversion Program: Past Achievements, Current Status and Future Directions 

9:00-9:40am: Bojie Fu, Ecosystem services changing under GfG Program in the Loess Plateau of China 

9:40-10:20am Guobin Liu, Title TBA 

Coffee Break 10:20-10:30am 

10:30-11:00am: A-Xing Zhu, Digital soil mapping in the digital age 

11:00-11:20am: Zhiqiang Zhang, Forest and Water Relations: Decoupling the Combined Effects of Landuse/cover and Climate Variability at Watershed Scale 

11:20-11:40am: Xiaoniu Xu, Soil C and N dynamics in different plantations under Grain-for-Green Program in Anhui 

11:40-12:00am: Kerong Zhang, Changes in vegetation and soil properties during secondary succession following agricultural abandonment 

12:00-1:00pm Lunch Break  

1:00-1:30pm: Dick Bilsborrow, The use of surveys to collect data to evaluate programs like the SLPC in China 

1:30-1:50pm: Pam Jagger, Environmental income and rural livelihoods: findings from a global comparative study on forests and livelihoods 

1:50-2:10pm: Kun Zhang, The Environmental Supply of Farm Households：Evidence from China’s Conversion of Cropland to Forests Program 

2:10-2:30pm: Xiaodong Chen, Evaluating the impacts of payments for ecosystem services 

2:30-2:50pm Coffee Break 

2:50-3:20pm: Larry Band, Hydroclimate and flowpath mediated evolution of forest canopy patterns: Recipes for restoration? 

3:20-3:50pm: Ge Sun, Relationships between Reforestation and Water Resources: Science, Public Perception, and Policy Implications in China 

3:50-4:10pm: Xiaohuan (Adam) Wei^*, Interactions among climatic variability, forest disturbance and hydrology: implications for long-term streamflow dynamics. (To be confirmed). 

4:10-4:30pm: Qi Zhang, Land-cover/Land-use change before and after the implementation of Natural Forest Protection and Sloping Land Conversion Programs in Tianma Nature Research, Anhui. 

4:30-4:50pm: Conghe Song, Contrasting impacts of Sloping Land Conversion Program and Natural Forest Protection Program on Participating Households Livelihoods. 

June 3: 

Morning: 8:30-10:30am Panel Discussion on Strategies to understand the dynamics of the coupled natural and human systems, including data collection in both the natural and human systems, data analysis method, modeling strategies, short- and medium- term goals that can be achieved with the project. 

Afternoon: Optional Tour of Wuhan