News & Events

• Dr. Fan becomes the Co-Editor-in-Chief for Landscape and Urban Planning, the flagship journal in the field of urban planning, from March 1, 2024.  

• Book Review of "The Great Urban Transition" by Urban Studies, Khairul et al, 2023

• New Grant:

Principal Investigator (PI) Peilei Fan (Co-PIs:  Ruben Briceno, Jiquan Chen, and Furqan Irfan (MSU).  2024-27. “Environmental Justice & Public Health: Climate, Land, & (Health) Outcome of Dengue Fever (CLOUD)” Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science (IDS). National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Funded: $1,491,721  

• Dr. Fan has been listed in World's Top 2% Scientists for both career impact (1960-2023) and impact in Year 2022 (the most updated year) by John P.A.Ioannidis at Stanford University and Elsevier, published on Oct. 4, 2023. 

• Dr. Fan was elected as the president for the term of 2023-27 of  International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE) in June 2023. 

MSU William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty (2022-23)

Dr. Fan was awarded as MSU William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty for the academic year of 2022-23.  William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Awards are made each year to members of the faculty for outstanding total service to the University. Final selection of William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award winners is made by an All-University Awards Committee appointed by the President. No more than ten William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Awards are made each year.

New Grant

Principal Investigator (PI) Peilei Fan (Co-PIs: Jiquan Chen (MSU), Atul Jain (UIUC), Soe W. Myint (TSU), Jiaguo Qi (MSU), Karen Seto (Yale U)).  2023-26. “Decoding Land Transitions across the Urban-Rural Continuums (URC): A Synthesis Study of Patterns, Drivers, and Socio-environmental Impacts in Southeast Asia (SEALS)” National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), $1,699,993  

• MSU researchers to lead $1.7M NASA grant to study urban-rural resiliency in Southeast Asia

• In a new $1.7M grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a group of researchers led by Dr. Peilei Fan from the Center for Global Change and Earth Observations (CGCEO) at Michigan State University will work to improve landscape sustainability and resilience in response to climate extremes and other challenges in Southeast Asia.

New Book

Fan, P.  (2022). The Great Urban Transition: Landscape and Environmental Changes from Siberia, Shanghai, to Saigon. Springer Nature.  (links at Springer Nature and Amazon)

• First book to examine urban landscape and environmental changes across various transitional economies in Asia

• Reveals how the hybrid of market logic and state intervention has produced a variety of unique landscapes in Asia

• Demonstrates intensified global forces in shaping urban landscape of Asia

Photo: Floating village on Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia. 

The water level of the lake changed dramatically in recent years due the combined impacts of climate change, land transitions, and dam constructions in the region, affecting agriculture, fishery, and the ecosystem that the local people rely on for their livelihood. Photo taken by Peilei Fan in November 2015.

New publication on impacts of global hydropower dams  in PNAS

Fan, P., Cho, M.S., Lin, Z., Ouyang, Z., Qi, J., Chen, J., & Moran, E. (2022). Recently constructed hydropower dams were associated with reduced economic production, population, and greenness in nearby areas. Proceedings of National Academy of Science (PNAS). doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2108038119I  See News in MSU Today.