讲座题目：The challenge of designing, constructing and maintaining the elusive ‘eco-city’ in China and the World
主讲人：Mark McDonnell 教授
主持人：韩骥 副教授
开始时间：2018-7-11（周三）13:00
讲座地址：闵行校区 生科楼辅楼208会议室
主办单位：生态与环境科学学院 科技处
报告人简介：
Mark J. McDonnell，澳大利亚墨尔本大学生物科学学院教授，牛津大学出版社发行的《Journal of Urban Ecology》杂志主编。长期从事城市生态学与生态系统方面的研究，尤其在景观生态学和城市生态系统的结构和功能，城市生物多样性保护和管理方面取得了卓越成果。曾主持和参与完成20多项重大科研项目，总金额超1000万美元；编撰英文书籍23部，在Science，Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics等国际顶级期刊上发表文章100余篇，Google Scholar论文总引用率达到7982次，h因子高达48。近十年他还担任Nature, Science, Ecology等顶级期刊的长期审稿人，以及7个国际期刊的编委。鉴于在科研上的杰出贡献，McDonnell教授还曾获得澳大利亚景观建筑师学会维多利亚奖章（AILA Victoria Medal for Landscape Architecture），当选美国植物园团体成员，获得纽约公园和娱乐部认证证书等。
报告摘要：
China, and other countries around the World are attempting to design, construct and maintain ‘eco-cities’, but unfortunately without much success. These cities are also referred to as ‘Green Cities’ and they are specifically designed to minimize carbon emissions, car use, and pollution while maintaining natural resources and implementing sustainable development practices. This last goal is actually very difficult to define or measure making it problematic to accomplish. Over the last decade, there has been a growing call by the public and urban practitioners to move beyond ‘Green Cities’ to create liveable, healthy and resilient cities and villages. These cities would also contain a diversity of non-human organisms (biodiversity) and all essential ecosystem processes. They also have a high proportion of green space with minimal paved surfaces, an abundance of ecosystem services and healthy and liveable housing for urban dwellers. To achieve these goals requires the integration of the best ecological & social research evidence (urban ecology) with practical design and planning expertise and people’s values. Unfortunately, there is a large knowledge gap regarding how to create these cities. I will present a vision of a broadly focused research program for ECNU that will inform the design, construction and maintenance of liveable, healthy and resilient cities and villages in China and throughout the World.