Guangqing
Chi
Professor
Pennsylvania State University
112E Armbsy
University Park, PA 16802
United States
Dr. Guangqing Chi is a Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography and Director of the Computational and Spatial Analysis Core at Pennsylvania State University. His research is focused on socio-environmental systems, aiming to understand the interactions between human populations and built and natural environments by using spatial and big data analytic methods. He studies climate-driven migration and left-behind children in Central Asia and climate change impacts on coastal communities in Alaska. He is lead author of the book “Spatial Regression Models for the Social Sciences” (SAGE 2019).
Themes
Land change trade-offs for ecosystem services and biodiversity , Urban-rural interactions, Land use and conflict