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social-ecological system/ecosystem services/ citizen participation/water adaptive governance/sustainable city/AI/women empowerment
Mandarin, English, French
EMAIL: hchien@mail.npust.edu.tw TEL: +886-8-7703202 #7255
Current Position
National Pintung University of Science and Technology (NPUST), Pingtung, Taiwan
Deputy-CEO, NPUST Office of Sustainable Development (2020,6 - now )
Director, Center of General Education, NPUST (2024/8- now)
Full Professor, College of Humanity and Social Sciences, NPUST (2024/2- now)
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6130-1761
Member of Asian Civil Society Research Network ; Head of Taiwan Charter (2023/03 - now)
Sustainability Science Editor 2022-
Host of TSH@NPUST (Taiwan Sustainability Hub site) 1.5 Degree Food and Consumption Transition (2023/2 - now)
BPW International 2024-2027 Regional Coordinator for Asia Pacific
Director, Language Center (2022/8- 2023/7)
Vice-Dean, Office of International Affairs (2019/12 - 2022/7 )
Associate Professor, College of Humanity and Social Sciences, NPUST (2019/8 - 2024/2 )
3rd ESP (Ecosystem Services Partnership) Asia Conference Scientific Program Committee member
ESP Asia Training on Integrated Ecosystem Services Assessment local host May, 2023
Board Member, Cao Gong Irrigation Research Foundation 2023-2027
Host of Youth Roundtable on Climate Litigation for No Nuke Asia Forum 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan
TV Interview Series
2024/10/18 Taiwan Talks Why China and U.S. Need Prabowo's Indonesia
2024/8/13 Taiwan Talks Direct Taiwan-China Communication Deemed Crucial for Stability
2024/06/22 Taiwan Talks EU Election Result
Academic & Professionoal Background
PhD in Sustainability Science (2021) United Nations University, Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, Japan
PhD in Political Science (2008) National Sun Yat-sen University, Graduate Institute of Political Science, Taiwan
Master in International Affairs (2003) Georgia Institute of Technology, School of International Affairs, USA
Bachelor in Area Studies (2001) University of Oklahoma, Department of Area Studies, USA
Founding Director, ICLEI East Asia Kaohsiung Capacity Center, hosted by Kaohsiung City Government for ICLEI (2012)
Department of International Affairs Assistant Professor (2009-2016), Associate Professor (2016-2018), Director of International Cooperation Office (2010-2013), Director of Southeast Asia Languages Center, Wenzao Ursuline of University of Languages
Visiting Scholar: Thammasat University, The School of Global Studies, Thailand (2018)/Shanghai International Studies University, China (2011)/University of California, Irvine, School of Social Ecology, Center for Organizational Reseach, USA (2007-2008, 2014)/Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Institut d'Asie Orientale, France (2006)
Reviewer for Environmental Management (SCIE), Water (SCIE), Environmental Science and Policy (SCIE), Policy Sciences (SSCI), Scientific Reports (SCI), Sustainability (SSCI, SCIE), Issues and Studies (SSCI), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (SSCI, SCIE), International Political Science Review (SSCI), European Journal of Political Research (SSCI), Agriculture (SCIE), Forest and Society (Scopus), International Journal of Public Sector Management (Scopus), Challenges in Sustainability (Scopus), Land, Journal of Urban Technology, etc.
Reviewer for IPBES preparatory documents (2021-2023)
draft scoping report for the IPBES business and biodiversity assessment.
second order draft of the chapters and the first order draft of the SPM of the invasive species
draft work plans for IPBES task forces in preparation for IPBES 9
draft terms of reference for a midterm review of the 2030 rolling work programme
the future role of the policy support function
Email: hchien@mail.npust.edu.tw +886-8-7703202 #7255
Latest Publications
Herlin Chien & Osamu Saito
Herlin Chien & Osamu Saito
(April 2021)
(April 2021)
Evaluating social–ecological fit in urban stream management: The role of governing institutions in sustainable urban ecosystem service provision, Ecosystem Services, 49, 101285 (SCIE, SSCI, Scopus)
Herlin Chien
Herlin Chien
(July 2021)
Adaptive Management in Urban Stream Governance: A Review and an Urban Commoning Scenario-Building Exercise,” Lexi Localis- Journal of Local Self-Government 19(3) (SSCI)
Herlin Chien
Herlin Chien
(May 2021)
Is Ensuring the Sustainable Implementation of BGI Possible? System Thinking of Urban Rivers as Social-Ecological Systems,
Shalini Dhyani, Mrittika Basu, Harini Santhanam, Rajarshi Dasgupta (Eds) Blue-Green Infrastructure across Asian Countries: Improving Urban Resilience and Sustainability, Singapore, Springer Nature Singapore (Scopus), p. 95-121
Herlin Chien
Herlin Chien
(Feb 2022)
Evaluating Impacts of Researchers to Enable Sustainability Transition: Using Urban Ecosystem Service Literature as An Exemplary Field," Environment, Development and Sustainability 24, 2345-2361. (SCIE, Scopus )
Herlin Chien, Keiko Hori, Osamu Saito
Herlin Chien, Keiko Hori, Osamu Saito
(Feb 2022)
"Urban Commons in the Techno-Economic Paradigm Shift: An ICT-Enabled Climate-Resilient Solutions Review, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science Special Issue - Smart Cities and Climate-Resilient Urban Planning. (SSCI, Scopus)
Herlin Chien
(September 2022)
Researchers as Scale Crossing Brokers in Knowledge Co- Production and More: A Prerequisite to Tackle Mismatches in Ecosystem Restoration Governance, Journal of Public Administration, 63, 103-133 (TSSCI)
Herlin Chien, Shu-ling Lin
Herlin Chien, Shu-ling Lin
(June 2023)
Innovations Amid Gaps between Policy and Practice for Sustainable Development: System Thinking of Livestock Wastewater Metagovernance Innovations in Taiwan, Innovation in the Social Sciences, 1(1), 70-98.
Herlin Chien, Istvan Rado
(June 2023)
University Departments as Change Agents in the Organic Waste Management Sector: Lessons from Action Research Initiatives in Thailand and Taiwan, Bandung: Journal of the Global South, 10(2), 185-205.
Tasi-Jung Jiang*, Pankaj Kumar*, Herlin Chien, Osamu Saito
Tasi-Jung Jiang*, Pankaj Kumar*, Herlin Chien, Osamu Saito
(Sept. 2023)
Herlin Chien
(March, 2024)
What kind of wicked problem? Applying uncertainty typology in livestock wastewater management practice analysis. NPUST Humanities and Social Sciences Research, 18(1) 89-117
Herlin Chien
(August, 2024)
New Forms of Active Citizen Participation to Regenerate Cities? Systematic Analysis of Co-City Literature and Projects in Asia, In Varieties of Civil Society across Asia edited by Akihiro Ogawa and Anthony Spires, Routlege
Tasi-Jung Jiang *, Hervan Marion Morgan Jr. *, Wen-Tien Tsai, Herlin Chien, Tsair-Bor Yen, Yu-Ru Lee
(August 2024)
Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass into Biochar: Enhancing Adsorption Kinetics and Pore Properties for Environmental Sustainability, Sustainability (SCIE/SSCI, Scopus)
Herlin Chien and James Kan
(September, 2024)
Can parliamentary monitoring organizations help reverse democratic decline in Taiwan and Asia more broadly? Melbourne Asia Review - An Initiative of the Asia Institute at University of Melbourne, Australia
Herlin Chien
(September 2024)
Interview: How parliamentary monitoring organizations are helping consolidate emerging democracies, Melbourne Asia Review - An Initiative of the Asia Institute at University of Melbourne, Australia
Mesfin Sahle* , Shruti Ashish Lahoti , So-Young Lee , Katja Brundiers , Carena J. van Riper , Christian E. Pohl , Herlin Chien , Iris C. Bohnet , Noé Aguilar-Rivera , Peter Edwards,Prajal Pradhan , Tobias Plieninger , Wiebren J. Boonstra, Alexander G. Flor , Annamaria Di Fabio , Arnim Scheidel , Chris Gordon , David J. Abson , Erik Andersson , Federico Demaria , Jasper O. Kenter , Jeremy Brooks, Joanne Kauffman, Maike Hamann, Martin Graziano, Nidhi Nagabhatla, Nobuo Mimura, Nora Fagerholm, Patrick O'Farrell, William C. Clark, Osamu Saito, Kazuhiko Takeuchi,
(October, 2024)
Revisiting the sustainability science research agenda, Collection of Concepts, Methodology, and Knowledge Management for Sustainability Science, Sustainability Science (SCEI, Scopus)
Herlin Chien, Loan Thi Phan*
Sue-Ching Jou
(December 2024)
Social Science Approaches to Critical Zone Studies: A Systematic Review, Environment, Development and Sustainability (SCIE, Scopus)
Herlin Chien
(September 2025)
Justified or Unjustified Transition to Post-Coal Power Production? Unraveling Necropolitics in Taiwan's Solar Energy Transition Protests, Postcarbon Futures: Imagining (and Enacting) New Worlds through Transition Studies edited by Anna J. Willow and Bürge Abiral, Routledge, New York, USA
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