1. Research Area
Health-oriented Sustainable Landscape Planning and Design, HORSLAPD

2. Brief Introduction
Health-oriented sustainable landscape planning and design (HORSLAPD) aims at ecosystem maintaining and restoration, human public health and well-being. We focus on the mechanisms of and influencing factors for maintaining and functioning the natural and artificial ecosystems, the restoration methods and approaches of degraded or damaged ecosystems, and public health and human well-being objected ecosystem services. Taking landscape as the vehicle of various natural processes, we try to reveal the relationships between landscape structure and functions, patterns and processes, formation and maintenance, as well as the ecological services and human public health. On this ground, we can construct sustainable landscape ecological space through planning and design, regulation and management, so as to optimize landscape structure, enhance landscape function, promote landscape service, and finally to boost the healthy and sustainable development of cities and ecosystems.

3. Brief introduction to leader

Junxiang Li currently is a Professor of Ecology in the School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has been in the School of Life Science and the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University as a visiting scholar in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He is one of the founding and the executive committee members of the Society for Urban Ecology (SURE). He is the founder of and one of the vice Presidents and Secretary General of SURE China Chapter. He is also the member of International Association for Landscape Ecology, China Chapter (IALE-China), and Ecological Society of China (ESC). He has been the principal investigator (PI) or Co-PI for more than 20 research grants funding from the Ministry of Science and Technology of people’s republic of China (MOST), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Sino-German Science Center, the Erasmus+ Project of European Union, the Federal Natural Protection Bureau of Germany (BfN), and  the Ministry of Education (MOE), China. He authored one book and more than 50 journal articles and book chapters. His current research areas: Urban Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Remote Sensing of Environmant and Ecology, his current research interests focus on urban land use/cover change, ecological and environmental consequences of urbanization and its monitoring using remote sensing, urban sustainability science, landscape ecosystem responses to climate change, landscape adaptation planning, Health effects of climate change and green and blue landscape.