21 OCT 2025 (TUE) 10:00-11:30

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Geography Distinguished Seminars Series

New Interdisciplinary Frontier — Metacoupling Framework for Addressing Global Challenges

Date: 21 OCT 2025 (Tuesday)

Time: 10:00-11:30 (HKT)

Venue: Chamber, Faculty of Social Sciences, 11/F, The Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Mode: Hybrid

Via Zoom: Zoom link will be provided upon successful registration

Registration link: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=103349

Abstract:

The world is facing numerous social and environmental challenges, including biodiversity loss, climate change, deterioration of ecosystem services, environmental pollution, land degradation, and urbanization. Overcoming these and other global challenges requires a transformative understanding and more effective management of complex human-nature interactions worldwide. This lecture presents the integrated framework of metacoupling (human-nature interactions within and across adjacent and distant systems) and its applications to address various challenges and advance many disciplines, such as climate science, ecology, environmental science, energy science, geography, sustainability science, and urban science.

Professor Jianguo Liu

Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability and Director, Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

University Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University (MSU)

A leading ecologist, human-environment scientist and sustainability scholar, Jianguo "Jack" Liu holds the Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability, is University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University (MSU), and serves as founding director of the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability. Liu came to MSU after completing his postdoctoral study at Harvard University. He also was a visiting scholar at Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton. He is an elected member of National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.