Zhanli Sun
Biographic Data
| ID | 3728813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zhanli Sun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zhanli |
| FAMILY NAME | Sun |
| SIGNATURE | SUN Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6204-4533 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The potential mitigation effect of forest-based bioeconomy on carbon emissions
Forest-based bioeconomy is a key pillar of Germany's bioeconomy strategies to reduce carbon emissions. Here we employ an extended spatial Durbin model and panel data (2000 to 2021) at the NUTS-3 level to examine the effect of the forest-based bioeconomy on carbon emission across Germany. Specifically, we analyze both intra-regional and spillover effects of technological innovation, bioeconomy scale, industrial upgrading, and their interactions fr…
Climate change mitigation policy and human health
Forest Farm Carbon Sink Projects (FFCSPs) represent a promising strategy for mitigating global climate change and improving public health. While the direct effects of such projects on carbon sequestration and participants' income are well researched, the potential co-benefits of FFCSPs on human health remain underexplored. The study bridges this research gap by examining the causal effect of FFCSPs on human health, measured through healthcare cos…
The effects of social capital and family income on farmers’ participation in rural public goods provision
Unraveling the complexity of land use change and path dependency in agri-environmental schemes for small farmers
This study investigates how Maya farmers in Mexico respond to agri-environmental subsidies aimed at promoting sustainable land use decisions. We do so through a serious games approach, using a tailor-designed board game to identify the land use behaviors of Maya farmers. The game simulated three different subsidy programs promoting mechanized agriculture, forest conservation, and agroforestry. We find that farmers tend to clear forested areas in …
Rethinking Human–Nature Relationships
Humans’ imaginaries toward nature have profound implications for environmental governance and natural resource management strategies. Driven by relentless technological advancement, such imaginaries have undergone a series of transformations. Through a phenomenological and social constructivist perspective, this article aims to explore and explain the dynamics of transcultural sociotechnical imaginaries found in the connection between Western pos…
Exploring the emergence and changing dynamics of a new integrated rice-crawfish farming system in China
Crop-aquaculture systems are widely adopted around the world as they can provide high protein and energy outputs per unit of land and raise farm incomes, particularly for smallholder farmers. Recently, a new crop-aquaculture system, which combines rice production with crawfish breeding (integrated rice-crawfish farming), has emerged and rapidly expanded in China. However, the spatial extent and temporal dynamics of this integrated farming system …
The use of mobile phones and the heterogeneity of banana farmers in Rwanda
Information and communications technologies (ICTs) play a key role in improving agricultural production, enhancing socio-ecological resilience, and mitigating rural poverty. However, the use of ICTs for agricultural development among smallholder farmers, especially in the least developed countries, still lags behind. It is therefore critical to understand distinct attitudes among heterogeneous smallholder farmers that determine use of ICTs, such …
Does Adoption of Honeybee Pollination Promote the Economic Value of Kiwifruit Farmers? Evidence from China
Honeybee pollination plays a significant role in sustaining the balance and biodiversity of sustainable rural development, agricultural production, and environments. However, little research has been carried out on the agricultural and economic benefits of pollination, especially for small farmers. This study investigated the adoption of honeybee pollination and its impact on farmers' economic value using primary data from 186 kiwifruit farmers i…
Subnational institutions and power of landholders drive illegal deforestation in a major commodity production frontier
Market proximity and irrigation infrastructure determine farmland rentals in Sichuan Province, China
Resource frontiers and agglomeration economies
Actor-level data on large-scale commercial agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa are scarce. The peculiar choice of transnational investing in African land has, therefore, been subject to conjecture. Addressing this gap, we reconstructed the underlying logics of investment location choices in a Bayesian network, using firm- and actor-level interview and spatial data from 37 transnational agriculture and forestry investments across 121 sites in Mozamb…
Policy instruments for green-growth of clusters
Grassland greening on the Mongolian Plateau despite higher grazing intensity
Changes in land management and climate alter vegetation dynamics, but the determinants of vegetation changes often remain elusive, especially in global drylands. Here we assess the determinants of grassland greenness on the Mongolian Plateau, one of the world's largest grassland biomes, which covers Mongolia and the province of Inner Mongolia in China. We use spatial panel regressions to quantify the impact of precipitation, temperature, radiatio…
Revealing the intentions of farmers to recultivate abandoned farmland
From global drivers to local land-use change
Crop booms in forest frontiers are a major contributor to land conversion and deforestation. In this study, we investigate the smallholder-driven northern Laos rubber boom in two case study areas (CSAs) with different speed and intensity of rubber expansion. We assess the relative importance of market, contextual, and behavioral factors in fostering or hindering the conversion of forest to rubber plantations. We develop a Bayesian network (BN) mo…
Exploring Policy Options in Regulating Rural–Urban Migration with a Bayesian Network
Despite the benefits associated with the free movement of people, governments often try to regulate urban immigration by constraining the agency of potential rural out-migrants in moving to cities and/or in expanding their agency to enable them to stay put. We apply an institutional framework centring on push–pull and retain–repel factors to migration intentions of potential migrants in northern Kazakhstan. We model the effects of these factors o…
How regional economic integration influence on urban land use efficiency? A case study of Wuhan metropolitan area, China
Many emerging economies have experienced rapid urbanization in an unprecedented scale and speed in the past few decades. While the urban expansion has led to the formation of metropolitan areas and promoted the economic development, it also exerts enormous pressure on environment and threatens food security. The efficient use of urban land becomes one of paramount challenges for governments to achieve sustainable and balanced growth. However, mos…
Survey-based modeling of land-use intensity in agricultural frontiers of the Argentine dry Chaco
Revealing the determinants of wheat yields in the Siberian breadbasket of Russia with Bayesian networks
Tools and methods in participatory modeling
Various tools and methods are used in participatory modelling, at different stages of the process and for different purposes. The diversity of tools and methods can create challenges for stakeholders and modelers when selecting the ones most appropriate for their projects. We offer a systematic overview, assessment, and categorization of methods to assist modelers and stakeholders with their choices and decisions. Most available literature provid…
China’s Land-Use Changes during the Past 300 Years
Understanding the processes of historical land-use change is crucial to the research of global environmental sustainability. Here we examine and attempt to disentangle the evolutionary interactions between land-use change and its underlying causes through a historical lens. We compiled and synthesized historical land-use change and various biophysical, political, socioeconomic, and technical datasets, from the Qing dynasty to modern China. The an…
Challenges and opportunities for Redd
The Complexities of Agent-Based Modeling Output Analysis
The proliferation of agent-based models (ABMs) in recent decades has motivated model practitioners to improve the transparency, replicability, and trust in results derived from ABMs. The complexity of ABMs has risen in stride with advances in computing power and resources, resulting in larger models with complex interactions and learning and whose outputs are often high-dimensional and require sophisticated analytical approaches. Similarly, the i…
Regime shifts limit the predictability of land-system change
Analyzing the drivers of tree planting in Yunnan, China, with Bayesian networks
How regional economic integration influence on urban land use efficiency? A case study of Wuhan metropolitan area, China
Many emerging economies have experienced rapid urbanization in an unprecedented scale and speed in the past few decades. While the urban expansion has led to the formation of metropolitan areas and promoted the economic development, it also exerts enormous pressure on environment and threatens food security. The efficient use of urban land becomes one of paramount challenges for governments to achieve sustainable and balanced growth. However, mos…
The forgotten D
International climate negotiations have stressed the importance of considering emissions from forest degradation under the planned REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation + enhancing forest carbon stocks) mechanism. However, most research, pilot-REDD+ projects and carbon certification agencies have focused on deforestation and there appears to be a gap in knowledge on complex mosaic landscapes containing degraded fores…
Regime shifts limit the predictability of land-system change
Challenges and opportunities for Redd
Analyzing the drivers of tree planting in Yunnan, China, with Bayesian networks
Revealing the intentions of farmers to recultivate abandoned farmland
Revealing the determinants of wheat yields in the Siberian breadbasket of Russia with Bayesian networks
Market proximity and irrigation infrastructure determine farmland rentals in Sichuan Province, China
Subnational institutions and power of landholders drive illegal deforestation in a major commodity production frontier
Policy instruments for green-growth of clusters
From global drivers to local land-use change
Crop booms in forest frontiers are a major contributor to land conversion and deforestation. In this study, we investigate the smallholder-driven northern Laos rubber boom in two case study areas (CSAs) with different speed and intensity of rubber expansion. We assess the relative importance of market, contextual, and behavioral factors in fostering or hindering the conversion of forest to rubber plantations. We develop a Bayesian network (BN) mo…
Exploring Policy Options in Regulating Rural–Urban Migration with a Bayesian Network
Despite the benefits associated with the free movement of people, governments often try to regulate urban immigration by constraining the agency of potential rural out-migrants in moving to cities and/or in expanding their agency to enable them to stay put. We apply an institutional framework centring on push–pull and retain–repel factors to migration intentions of potential migrants in northern Kazakhstan. We model the effects of these factors o…
Survey-based modeling of land-use intensity in agricultural frontiers of the Argentine dry Chaco
Unraveling the complexity of land use change and path dependency in agri-environmental schemes for small farmers
This study investigates how Maya farmers in Mexico respond to agri-environmental subsidies aimed at promoting sustainable land use decisions. We do so through a serious games approach, using a tailor-designed board game to identify the land use behaviors of Maya farmers. The game simulated three different subsidy programs promoting mechanized agriculture, forest conservation, and agroforestry. We find that farmers tend to clear forested areas in …
Resource frontiers and agglomeration economies
Actor-level data on large-scale commercial agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa are scarce. The peculiar choice of transnational investing in African land has, therefore, been subject to conjecture. Addressing this gap, we reconstructed the underlying logics of investment location choices in a Bayesian network, using firm- and actor-level interview and spatial data from 37 transnational agriculture and forestry investments across 121 sites in Mozamb…
The forgotten D
International climate negotiations have stressed the importance of considering emissions from forest degradation under the planned REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation + enhancing forest carbon stocks) mechanism. However, most research, pilot-REDD+ projects and carbon certification agencies have focused on deforestation and there appears to be a gap in knowledge on complex mosaic landscapes containing degraded fores…
Regime shifts limit the predictability of land-system change
Analyzing the drivers of tree planting in Yunnan, China, with Bayesian networks
The Complexities of Agent-Based Modeling Output Analysis
The proliferation of agent-based models (ABMs) in recent decades has motivated model practitioners to improve the transparency, replicability, and trust in results derived from ABMs. The complexity of ABMs has risen in stride with advances in computing power and resources, resulting in larger models with complex interactions and learning and whose outputs are often high-dimensional and require sophisticated analytical approaches. Similarly, the i…
China’s Land-Use Changes during the Past 300 Years
Understanding the processes of historical land-use change is crucial to the research of global environmental sustainability. Here we examine and attempt to disentangle the evolutionary interactions between land-use change and its underlying causes through a historical lens. We compiled and synthesized historical land-use change and various biophysical, political, socioeconomic, and technical datasets, from the Qing dynasty to modern China. The an…
Challenges and opportunities for Redd
Tools and methods in participatory modeling
Various tools and methods are used in participatory modelling, at different stages of the process and for different purposes. The diversity of tools and methods can create challenges for stakeholders and modelers when selecting the ones most appropriate for their projects. We offer a systematic overview, assessment, and categorization of methods to assist modelers and stakeholders with their choices and decisions. Most available literature provid…
Survey-based modeling of land-use intensity in agricultural frontiers of the Argentine dry Chaco
Revealing the determinants of wheat yields in the Siberian breadbasket of Russia with Bayesian networks
From global drivers to local land-use change
Crop booms in forest frontiers are a major contributor to land conversion and deforestation. In this study, we investigate the smallholder-driven northern Laos rubber boom in two case study areas (CSAs) with different speed and intensity of rubber expansion. We assess the relative importance of market, contextual, and behavioral factors in fostering or hindering the conversion of forest to rubber plantations. We develop a Bayesian network (BN) mo…
Exploring Policy Options in Regulating Rural–Urban Migration with a Bayesian Network
Despite the benefits associated with the free movement of people, governments often try to regulate urban immigration by constraining the agency of potential rural out-migrants in moving to cities and/or in expanding their agency to enable them to stay put. We apply an institutional framework centring on push–pull and retain–repel factors to migration intentions of potential migrants in northern Kazakhstan. We model the effects of these factors o…
How regional economic integration influence on urban land use efficiency? A case study of Wuhan metropolitan area, China
Many emerging economies have experienced rapid urbanization in an unprecedented scale and speed in the past few decades. While the urban expansion has led to the formation of metropolitan areas and promoted the economic development, it also exerts enormous pressure on environment and threatens food security. The efficient use of urban land becomes one of paramount challenges for governments to achieve sustainable and balanced growth. However, mos…
Grassland greening on the Mongolian Plateau despite higher grazing intensity
Changes in land management and climate alter vegetation dynamics, but the determinants of vegetation changes often remain elusive, especially in global drylands. Here we assess the determinants of grassland greenness on the Mongolian Plateau, one of the world's largest grassland biomes, which covers Mongolia and the province of Inner Mongolia in China. We use spatial panel regressions to quantify the impact of precipitation, temperature, radiatio…
Revealing the intentions of farmers to recultivate abandoned farmland
Does Adoption of Honeybee Pollination Promote the Economic Value of Kiwifruit Farmers? Evidence from China
Honeybee pollination plays a significant role in sustaining the balance and biodiversity of sustainable rural development, agricultural production, and environments. However, little research has been carried out on the agricultural and economic benefits of pollination, especially for small farmers. This study investigated the adoption of honeybee pollination and its impact on farmers' economic value using primary data from 186 kiwifruit farmers i…
Subnational institutions and power of landholders drive illegal deforestation in a major commodity production frontier
Market proximity and irrigation infrastructure determine farmland rentals in Sichuan Province, China
Resource frontiers and agglomeration economies
Actor-level data on large-scale commercial agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa are scarce. The peculiar choice of transnational investing in African land has, therefore, been subject to conjecture. Addressing this gap, we reconstructed the underlying logics of investment location choices in a Bayesian network, using firm- and actor-level interview and spatial data from 37 transnational agriculture and forestry investments across 121 sites in Mozamb…
Policy instruments for green-growth of clusters
Rethinking Human–Nature Relationships
Humans’ imaginaries toward nature have profound implications for environmental governance and natural resource management strategies. Driven by relentless technological advancement, such imaginaries have undergone a series of transformations. Through a phenomenological and social constructivist perspective, this article aims to explore and explain the dynamics of transcultural sociotechnical imaginaries found in the connection between Western pos…
Exploring the emergence and changing dynamics of a new integrated rice-crawfish farming system in China
Crop-aquaculture systems are widely adopted around the world as they can provide high protein and energy outputs per unit of land and raise farm incomes, particularly for smallholder farmers. Recently, a new crop-aquaculture system, which combines rice production with crawfish breeding (integrated rice-crawfish farming), has emerged and rapidly expanded in China. However, the spatial extent and temporal dynamics of this integrated farming system …
The use of mobile phones and the heterogeneity of banana farmers in Rwanda
Information and communications technologies (ICTs) play a key role in improving agricultural production, enhancing socio-ecological resilience, and mitigating rural poverty. However, the use of ICTs for agricultural development among smallholder farmers, especially in the least developed countries, still lags behind. It is therefore critical to understand distinct attitudes among heterogeneous smallholder farmers that determine use of ICTs, such …
The effects of social capital and family income on farmers’ participation in rural public goods provision
Unraveling the complexity of land use change and path dependency in agri-environmental schemes for small farmers
This study investigates how Maya farmers in Mexico respond to agri-environmental subsidies aimed at promoting sustainable land use decisions. We do so through a serious games approach, using a tailor-designed board game to identify the land use behaviors of Maya farmers. The game simulated three different subsidy programs promoting mechanized agriculture, forest conservation, and agroforestry. We find that farmers tend to clear forested areas in …
The potential mitigation effect of forest-based bioeconomy on carbon emissions
Forest-based bioeconomy is a key pillar of Germany's bioeconomy strategies to reduce carbon emissions. Here we employ an extended spatial Durbin model and panel data (2000 to 2021) at the NUTS-3 level to examine the effect of the forest-based bioeconomy on carbon emission across Germany. Specifically, we analyze both intra-regional and spillover effects of technological innovation, bioeconomy scale, industrial upgrading, and their interactions fr…
Geography (17 works) · Economics (16 works) · Business (15 works) · Agriculture (11 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (11 works) · China (8 works) · Natural resource economics (8 works) · Environmental Science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Economic growth (6 works)