Publications

Peer Reviewed Papers

1. Wang, W., Zhai, D., Li, X., Fang, H., Yang, Y.*, 2024. Conflicts in mangrove protected areas through the actor-centred power framework - Insights from China. Forest Policy and Economics 158, 103122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2023.103122

2. Wang, W., Zhai, D., Huang, B.*, 2023. Implementation gaps affecting the quality of biodiversity conservation management: An ethnographic study of protected areas in Fujian Province, China. Forest Policy and Economics 149, 102933. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2023.102933

3. Wang, W., Zhai, D., Liu, J.*, 2024. Research on natural-social science cross-integration and development of biodiversity conservation in China (in Chinese). Acta Ecologica Sinica 44 (13), 5459-5475. https://doi.org/10.20103/j.stxb.202305050931

Works in Progress

1. Lin, Y., Zhai, D. (co-lead author), Ye, Z.*, Positive environmental externalities of policy-based crop insurance: Evidence from water bodies in China

2. Lin, Y., Zhai, D., The crowding-out effect of crop insurance on farmers’ adaptation to extreme weather through farm management: Evidence from Shannxi Province, China

3. Pantoja, C., Tanner, M.K., Pfaff, A.*, Wang, Z., Zhai, D. (alphabetically ordered),  Ecopayments’ deforestation impacts on highly intervened frontiers: Extending Ecuador’s evidence in light of Amazon policy interactions

4. Gong, J., Zhai, D., Chen, S.*, Heat stress, resource saving, and cognitive decline among older adults in China

5. Zhai, D., Wang, W.*, Resource dilemma, bricolage, and agropastoral coupling: Evidence from the Gansu-Qinghai Border Zone, China

Contributed Book Chapters

1. Case Study on Community Development in Protected Areas (in Chinese), 2023. Beijing: China Forestry Publishing House. (Chapter 3, Chapter 5, Chapter 6)

Conference Papers & Presentations

1. Heat Stress Exposure, Resource Saving, and Cognitive Decline Among Older Adults in China

PAA 2025 Annual Meeting program · April 10 - 13, 2025 · Washington, DC

Session 1504 - Demographics of Adaptation and Mitigation Policy

Sub-session 1504-2 - Climate Migration, Morbidity, and Mortality Dynamics

Population Assocation of America (PAA)

2. Heat Stress Exposure, Resource Saving, and Cognitive Decline Among Older Adults in China

Innovative Strategies for Addressing Climate-Related Health Challenges Symposium · April 8, 2025 · Durham, NC

Poster Session

Climate X PopHealth Working Group, Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine

3. Evaluating the impact of the SocioBosque program on deforestation: Evidence from the Ecuadorian Amazon

2025 Annual Meeting of the International Society of Forest Resource Economics (ISFRE) · March 10-12, 2025 · Myrtle Beach, SC

Flash Presentation Session 5A

Southern Forest Economics Workers (SOFEW)

4. Resource dilemma, bricolage, and agropastoral coupling: Evidence from the Gansu-Qinghai Border Zone, China

Workshop of the World of Pastoralism, Coexistence, Resilience, and Action · May 22, 2024 · Beijing, China

Session 1 - Practice of Property Rights Reform in Pastoral Areas

School of Sociology, China University of Political Science and Law

5. Transitions and trends dominating conservation social science research in China: A bibliometric analysis (1998–2022)

2023 IASNR Conference · June 10 - 15, 2023 · Portland, ME

Regular Session - Collaborative Approaches to Social Ecological Research and Planning for Sustainable Futures

International Association for Society and Natural Resources (IASNR)

6. Research on interdisciplinary integration and development of natural-social sciences for biodiversity conservation in China

The 14th China Symposium on Biodiversity Science and Conservation · December 11 - 13, 2022 · Shanghai, China

Session 9 - National Park System and Nature Reserve Construction

Biodiversity Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences