Guoyi Han, PhD (Geography), MSc (Environmental Sciences), MA (Human Geography), BSc (Geography), Research Fellow, joined SEI since 2001.  Guoyi is the theme co-leader for Managing Environmental Systems.

He specialises in nature-society synthesis in the areas of water resources, human dimensions of environmental change, disaster risk reduction, vulnerability and resilience of coupled human-environment systems, and applications of Geographic Information System (GIS).

His earlier research experience concentrated on watershed management in connection with non-point source water pollution control. Over the years, his research has expanded to include environmental impact assessment, regional environmental planning, risk analysis and hazard management, dynamic nature of vulnerability and resilience of human-environment systems. More recently, he has been focused on mainstreaming natural disaster risk reduction; energy security and climate policy in China; China and its transition, and the broad environmental and social implications of that transition to China and globally.

Prior to joining SEI, he was a Research Programmer for Idrisi GIS at the Clark Labs, Clark University, US (1997-2001), and he was an Assistant Professor at the School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, China (1988-1993).

Publications

• Linking Investment Decisions with Disaster Risk Reduction in Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH): The Role of the Public and Private Sectors, Potentials for Partnership and Social Learning (Paper - 2013)

• Driving Technological Innovation for a Low-Carbon Society: Case Studies for Solar Photovoltaics and Carbon Capture and Storage (Research report - 2012)

• China’s Carbon Emission Trading: An Overview of Current Development (Report - 2012)

• China’s Carbon Emission Trading: an Experiment to Watch Closely (Policy brief - 2012)

• Managing Environmental Systems Factsheet (Fact sheet - 2011)

• Chine: Séismes: et pourtant, ils savaient (Journal article - 2010)

• A Balancing Act: China's role in Climate Change (Report - 2009)

• China’s Climate- and Energy-security Dilemma: Shaping a New Path of Economic Growth (Journal article - 2009)

• Research on global environmental change and integrated risk governance research (Journal article - 2009)

• China – U.S. relations and domestic politics on the road to Copenhagen 1: Making virtue of necessity (Report - 2009)

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Projects

• Risks of, and responses to, the new fossil fuel economy

  
  

• Wash and Rescue

  
  

• For Market introduction of the medium-scale plug-flow biogas digester in Vietnam

  
  

• Toxic Pollutants and Birth Deficiencies

  
  

• Beyond Fossil - Re-fabricating Urbanity

  
  

• Climate and energy

  
  

• China Climate Security Initiative

  
  

• The China node for sustainable sanitation

  
  

• China: climate and energy politics

  
  

• The economics of climate change in China

  
  

• Ecological Sanitation Research (EcoSanRes)