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EVENT: China�s devastated ecosystem and its impacts on biodiversity and wellbeing

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China�s devastated ecosystem and its impacts on biodiversity and wellbeing : School of Human Sciences (APHB) Seminar Series Other events...
In the context of limited industry, dramatic human population growth, and driven by mercantilism since the 1950s, China has embarked on an unprecedented period of agricultural expansion, natural resource depletion, industrialization, economic reforms and urbanization. In order to understand how China’s governmental policies and eco-social development have shaped Asian environments. Information from the World Bank, the World Health Organization and China’s Red List of mammals was analyzed and compared between China and non-China Asian countries. It focuses on 42 variables that are primary drivers of Asian environmental change. The results indicate that for 11 of these drivers, relative to total land area, between 1960 to 2013 China contributed significantly more to environmental degradation than the rest of Asian nations combined. Similarly based on population size, China has contributed significantly more than the rest of Asian nations for 9 of these indicators. In the case of Co2 emissions from liquid and solid fuel consumptions and carbon dioxide damage, China’s negative impacts have increased significantly during the last 6 decades. Between 2004-2015, deforestation and other environmental damages in China have resulted in a 22% increase in the number of threatened mammal taxa, in particular, even-toed ungulates, bats and insectivores. Alarmingly for China’s human population, data from the World Health Organization indicate that the impact of environmental change has resulted in significantly higher proportions of liver, lung and stomach cancers, and a dramatic increase in PM10 and PM2.5 particulate matter in the air. The impacts of the unsustainable depletion of natural resources and land conversion, large scale deforestation and habitat destruction, agricultural and water pollution, excessive dam construction, air pollution, and urbanization on China’s biodiversity and human population are also examined. It argues that China’s policies of eco-social development have prioritized resource extraction, economic growth, and environmental degradation over sustainability and this has come at the expenses of human health, biodiversity, and the survivorship of natural environments.

Pan’s academic commitment in zoology, primatology and human biology since 1982 have resulted in more than 95 publications with more than 50 scholars in China, Australia, the UK, the USA, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil …. His more recent concentration on the conservation, environmental protection and human biology in China has sparked internationally through three of his projects: 1) Science Commentary (Pan RL, et al., 2016. New Conservation Strategy for China – A Model Starting With Primates. American Journal of Primatology 78 (11): 1137-1148); 2) “the Primate Extinction Crisis in China: Immediate Challenges and A Way Forward” (Li et al., in press in Biodiversity and Conservation – regarded as the first correspondence Pan is bringing together 21 national and international scholars to complete the project); and 3) “China’s Unique Role in Shaping the Asian Environment and its Impacts on Biodiversity and Human Society Since 1960s” (Li et al., ongoing for Nature – regarded as the first correspondence he is leading 13 national and international authors to accomplish the project).
Speaker(s) Professor Ruliang Pan, University of Northwest University, China & Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at UWA
Location Seminar room 1.81 (first floor) Anatomy building, The University of Western Australia
Contact Deborah Hull <[email protected]> : 6488 3313
URL http://www.aphb.uwa.edu.au/research/seminars
Start Tue, 29 May 2018 13:00
End Tue, 29 May 2018 14:00
Submitted by Deborah Hull <[email protected]>
Last Updated Thu, 24 May 2018 12:01
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