Zhang Lei, PhD Name and address Name Email Zhang Lei Lei.Zhang@wur.nl Position Assistant Professor

Background

• Assistant Professor in the Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University (2002-present)
• Associate professor, College of Management Science, Qingdao Agriculture University, Qingdao, China, (November 2007-present)
• Ph.D in Environmental Management, Wageningen University (1998-2002)
• MSc in Environmental Management, Wageningen University (1996-1998)
• Curriculum Vitae (as of August 2008)

Research profile

• Fields of expertise: rural and industrial environmental management in transitional ecomonies; environmental policy evaluation
• ENP Research themes: Sustainable Consumption and Production and Sustainable Natural Resource Use  

Publications

• He, G.Z., Y.L. Lu and L. Zhang (2008), “Risk management in China: what does the snow disaster tell us?”, Yearly Report by China Environment Forum, Washington D.C. (forthcoming).
• Zhang, L. (2008), “Strategic Environmental Assessment”, in textbook on Environmental Management, Renmin University Press, Beijing (forthcoming)
• Zhang, L. and Q. Tu (2008), “Payment for environmental services: SLCP implementation in Ningxia region, China”, J. China & World Economy, Vol. 16, No.2, Mar.-Apr. 2008, Blackwell Publishing (SSCI).
• He, G.Z., Lei ZHANG, Yonglong LU (2008), Strategic Environmental Assessment and Environmental Auditing in Large-scale Public Infrastructure Construction: The Case of Qinghai-Tibet Railway. Environmental Management (SCI, under revision)
• Tu, Q. , L. Zhang, A.P. Mol, “Do Trust and Property Security Increase Household’s Contribution to Public Goods? The Case of the Sloping Land Conversion Program in China”, (under review).
• Zhang, L. and L.J. Zhong (2008), “China’s Risk Management System in Shaping: Strategy for Environmental Integration”( under review by Contemporary China).
• Han J.Y., Arthur P.J. Mol, Yonglong Lu, Lei Zhang (2008), Small-scale bio-energy projects in rural China: Lessons to be learnt. In: Energy Policy (in press). 
• Ren, J.M., L. Zhang, R.S. Wang (2008), “Measuring the Sustainability of Policy Scenarios: Emergy-based SEA of the Chinese Paper Industry”, submitted to: Eco-Modelling.
• Ecologizing Industrialization In Chinese Small Towns’, 2002, Ph.D dissertation, Wageningen University 
• Complete list of publications at Wageningen University

Research projects

• Research “The role of farmers’ co-operations in greening the food chain in China” (2008-2009)
• Research on environmental information disclosure in China (2008-)
• Research on environmental risk management in China (2008-)
• Project coordinator and researcher for joint-research with the Chinese Academy of Sciences “Environmental Auditing towards Governments”, funded by KNAW (2004-2008)
• Post-doc researcher in Project Sustainable resource use in rural China: Institutions, policies, markets (TRANSITO) (2006-2007)

Educational tasks

• Environmental Governance of Superpowers, Wageningen University