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Puyang Li

Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Selected Publications


Chinese sisal estates and smallholder land uses and livelihoods, Kilosa, Central Tanzania

Journal Article World Development · May 1, 2024 The impacts of large-scale agribusiness, commonly associated with land grabbing, on smallholder livelihoods in Africa have been the subject of an expansive array of research that tends to focus on socioeconomic or environmental issues. This study examines ... Full text Cite

Modeling trade-offs among ecosystem services for agriculture in the “sisal belt” of Kilosa, central Tanzania

Journal Article Landscape Ecology · February 1, 2023 Context: Exploring ways to maintain a biophysically functioning environment while improving human welfare based on competing stakeholder land uses is critical for sustainable development, especially under the context of a surging “global land rush”. Object ... Full text Cite

Ecosystem services and trade-offs: implications for land dynamics and sustainable livelihoods in Northern Lombok, Indonesia

Journal Article Environment, Development and Sustainability · March 1, 2021 Integrating ecosystem services assessments into policy decision making is a challenging process. Translated into rural development, such a process must address ecosystem services and economic well-being as articulated by a diversity of stakeholders involve ... Full text Cite