题 目：Bridging Ecological Wisdom and Urban Sustainability Planning
报告人：Robert H. Twiss Emeritus Professor
主持人：象伟宁教授
时 间：2014年10月15日（周三）13:00
地 点：闵行校区生科辅楼119室
报告人简介：
Robert Twiss, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Planning, College of Environmental Design, The University of California, Berkeley. Research and teaching covered natural-science support for land and regional planning, and research & development for web-based geographic information systems. His professional work has emphasized the bridging of science and public policy through the creation of planning methods and tools. He has served on numerous public bodies that apply science to environmental problems; including: the US Environmental Protection Agency Independent Science Board and the Independent Science Board for Ecosystem Restoration of the California Delta. He has served as a consultant on complex environmental issues, including the California Governor’s Delta Blue Ribbon Task Force and the Delta Stewardship Council. He has served on governing boards with land-use regulatory authority, including service as Chair of the Governing Board of the California Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, and Chair of the California State Mining and Geology Board. Twiss has advised local, regional, state, and federal agencies and foreign governments, with and appointment as Special Representative of the United Nations on the Physical Development Plan for the Republic of Montenegro. He has had two assignments in China dealing with regional planning and environmental impact assessment. Other international work included brief assignments in Mexico, Australia, Russia, and Ecuador.
报告内容简介：
Planning based upon science and ecology can reduce risks from natural disasters, mitigate the environmental impacts of development, and help create a more efficient and beautiful urban system. But planners and scientists must work together to bridge the gap between the search for ecological wisdom and its practical application to critical problems in development. The speaker will address two such “bridges”: land classification (Stewart, 1968), and conceptual modeling (Healey, 2004).
With reference to two case studies, this presentation will analyse the ways in which ecological wisdom was compiled and actually applied in implementation. The first case covers planning and land regulation that have taken place over the past forty-four years at Lake Tahoe. The second involves current planning for California’s Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta. These regions differ in size, natural features, and economics, but both have plans that are based upon science and ecology. Translation of science into practice has been effective at Tahoe, but as yet, less so in the Delta; so comparison of context, approaches, and methods may help guide work on high-risk and ecologically sensitive areas in China and elsewhere in the world. This presentation will seek to compare these two cases as to the concepts and tools used to bridge wisdom and sustainable practices; looking especially at land classification and related components: conceptual models, and adaptive management.
题 目：Ecological Wisdom and the Eco/Green Cities Movement
报告人：Michael Healey Emeritus Professor
主持人：象伟宁教授
时 间：2014年10月15日（周三）13:30
地 点：闵行校区生科辅楼119室
报告人简介：Dr. Michael Healey received BSc (1964) and MSc (1966) degrees in zoology from the University of British Columbia, Canada, and a PhD (1969) from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. In 1969 he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo where he conducted research on schooling behaviour in salmon. From 1971 until 1990, Dr. Healey was a research scientist with the Canadina federal government at the Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg (1970-74) where he conducted research on ecology and management of freshwater fishes in Canada’s Arctic and at the Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo (1974-1990) where he conducted research on the ecology and management of Pacific salmon. In 1990 he joined the faculty of the University of British Columbia as Director of the Westwater Research Centre, a multidisciplinary Centre devoted to research and policy analysis of issues related to water. From 1994 to 1997 he directed a multifaculty research project investigating prospects for sustainability in the lower Fraser River basin, one of six large scale projects across Canada focused on sustainable environmental management. He retired from UBC in 2007. From 2007 to 2008 he was lead scientist for the CALFED Bay Delta program in California. As lead scientist he also served as science advisor to a Blue Ribbon Task Force developing a vision for sustainable management of water and the environment in the Sacramento San Joaquin Rivers Delta. In 2005 and again in 2009 he was visiting professor of Canadian Studies at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan where he taught courses on environmental policy. Early in his career, Dr. Healey began investigating ways to make science relevant to policy making and developing his ability to interpret science to policy makers. Dr. Healey has served as a consultant to government and industry in Canada, the United States and Asia on the management of aquatic habitat and on restoration of aquatic ecosystems, most notably as a member of the science advisory committee for the Northern River Basins Study in Alberta and as a member of advisory committees on ecosystem restoration for the CALFED Bay Delta program in California. He is author of more than 200 articles and books on aquatic ecology and resource management.
报告内容简介：
In this presentation, the speaker will propose to pull together a number of facets of practical ecological wisdom and show how they provide a foundation for sustainable landscape and urban planning. In developing these ideas he will use as an illustration the city of Vancouver, BC, Canada, which has as its objective to become the world’s greenest city by 2020. He will also make comparison with other Green or Eco City projects in China (Tianjin) and Sweden (Malmo). Many aspects of ecological theory and principles for designing with nature have been put forward as tools to assist in designing vibrant and sustainable urban systems. As yet, however, there is no comprehensive framework for conceptualizing the sustainable urban landscape that takes account of the importance of scale and interactions among scales. He will examine the plans and policies of each city to determine how well they are informed by the principles of ecological design for sustainability sketched above. He will provide an assessment of what we can learn about the path to urban sustainability from each example and how we can make the ecological wisdom necessary for sustainability more actionable and practical.
题 目：Six Dimensions of Ecological Intervention: finding and communicating wisdom
报告人：Ian Bishop
主持人：象伟宁教授
时 间：2014年10月15日（周三）14:00
地 点：闵行校区生科辅楼119室
报告人简介：Ian Bishop is a Professorial Fellow in the School of Engineering, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, at the University of Melbourne and, in 2014, a visiting Fellow in the Shanghai Key Lab for Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration (SHUES), School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University. He has worked for many years with emerging technologies (GIS, visualization, game engines and, most recently, smartphones) with a view to development of novel spatial applications especially in landscape. Ian has a special interest, and undertaken fundamental research, in visual analysis of landscapes, the visual impact of infrastructure and the opportunity through visualization to better communicate possible environmental futures to a wide public. He believes that use of emerging technologies and processes can improve the management of natural resources and to contribute to more meaningful public participation in environmental management.
报告内容简介：
People have been altering the natural environment for millennia. More recently these interventions, which are invariably undertaken with expectation of benefits, increasingly turn out to be detrimental when their broader consequences emerge. People have made far more mistakes in their ecological interventions than they have had successes, and can certainly become ecologically wiser or at least less naïve by learning from these lessons. However, because the lack of a cohesive framework under which these lessons can be systematically documented and communicated, both the learning and disseminating of these pieces of valuable ecological knowledge have been limited, and often on an ad hoc basis.
This presentation is centered on the following question: How can ecological lessons be classified in a way that makes them more actionable—relevant, usable, useful, and effective—to both scholars and practitioners in their practice for wiser planning and design? It suggests a set of dimensions on which ecological interventions can be systematically classified. These are: The rationale, the type of intervention, the physical scale, the temporal scale, the degree of supporting knowledge, and the degree of impact. Within each dimension classes are identified. So, for example, types of interventions may involve regulation, persuasion, engineering, market-based approaches or biological control. We present examples to illustrate these key dimensions and suggest ways to assess interventions within this framework. We argue that this may help in the identification and communication of wise options.
题 目：Can Ecological Aesthetics Be New Wisdom in Urban Planning and Design?
报告人：Xinhao Wang Professor
主持人：象伟宁 教授
时 间：2014年10月15日（周三）14:30
地 点：闵行校区生科辅楼119室
报告人简介：Dr. Xinhao Wang is a professor of Planning and Co-Director of the Joint Center of Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis at the University of Cincinnati. He holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, Master of Community Planning from the University of Rhode Island, Master of Science in Environmental Geo-Sciences from Peking University and Bachelor of Science in Geography from Peking University. He teaches courses in Geographic Information System (GIS), environmental planning, statistics, and research methods. His research interests are in the areas of environmental planning and integrated applications of GIS, visualization, and modeling in planning and urban studies, such as environment and ecological protection, housing and urban livability, land-air and land-water modeling as well as river and watershed water modeling. Prior to the University of Cincinnati, he worked as planning, environment, and GIS consultant in China and the United States. His recent passion is to promote healthy urbanization using eco-aesthetics principles. Professor Wang is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planner.
报告内容简介：
After theoretical discussion of ecoaesthetics, the speaker will present a case study in City of Wilmington, the county seat of Clinton County, Ohio, a small city community in the United States to demonstrate the application of ecoaesthetics. His study develops and compares multiple scenarios, using quality of life indicators based on ecoaesthetics. The indicators are grouped into natural, physical, social, economic, and services categories, a multi-dimensional measurement of ecoaesthetics. GIS-based tools are used in the study, in particular, ArcGIS, and its Community Vizextension and City Engine, a standalone product which provides users with the ability to turn 2D GIS data into 3D city. The methodology includes scenario generation, developing future model and visualization, and human experience evaluation. The aim of such comparison is to answer the question “can future development in small cities and towns be managed and/or tailored in such a way that it is economically viable and possesses characters appreciated by the residents who embrace ecological knowledge?” The project is an example of making ecological wisdom actionable and practical in assisting planning decision making efforts to create a sustainable urban environment that enriches public perception of ecological values.
