Academic Research of College of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northwest Normal University

By the end of 20 13, teachers from the School of Geography and Environment of Northwest Normal University had applied for 460 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation and the National Social Science Foundation, and 460 projects of various provincial, ministerial and bureau levels, with research funding of nearly 50 million yuan, published high-level scientific research papers 1226, won 4 1 and published monographs/kloc. The college has long been committed to the research in the fields of geography and environmental science education, land development and remediation, regional development and management, ecological economy and environmental protection, urban and regional planning, tourism resources development planning, geographic information technology, resources and environment in arid areas, desertification control, water resources protection and utilization, sustainable economic and social development in ethnic areas, and response to global climate change in ecologically fragile areas.

College is the professional committee of ecological restoration of China Ecological Economics Society, affiliated unit of Gansu Geographical Society, and governing unit of China Geographical Society, China Ecological Economics Society, China Natural Resources Society, Gansu Surveying and Mapping Society, Remote Sensing Society, Meteorology Society, Land Society and Geography Teaching and Research Society. Sponsored by two academic journals, Resources, Environment and Development and Ecological Economics approved by Gansu Provincial Science and Technology Department and the student journal Polaris.

Professional associations affiliated to the college:

Gansu Geographical Society: a provincial local society under the Chinese Geographical Society. The purpose of the Society is to unite the vast number of geographers in the province to carry out geographical scientific research, promote the development of geographical education, popularize geographical scientific knowledge, and serve the national and local ecological construction, environmental protection and sustainable economic development. The Society consists of a professional committee on human geography, a professional committee on physical geography and Quaternary, a professional committee on map and GIS, and a professional committee on geography teaching and popular science in middle schools. Honorary Chairman: Academician Li Jijun; Chairman: Professor Shi Peiji.

Professional Committee of Ecological Restoration: a professional society under the China Society of Ecological Economics. The aim of the Society is to organize a large number of professional scientific and technological workers in ecological economics, environmental economics, geography, ecology, regional economics, theoretical economics and other disciplines based on the extremely fragile ecological environment in the western region, and to carry out theoretical and practical research on the restoration and reconstruction of ecological environment, ecological economy and sustainable development in the cold and arid areas of western China. Chairman: Academician Cheng.

The college has a series of internal academic journals (quarterly) such as Journal of Ecological Economics and Resources and Environment and Development, which reflect and report the research status, theory and method system, research hotspots and frontiers, application practice and progress of ecological economics at home and abroad.

Journal of Ecological Economics was founded on June 5438+ 10, 2003. It is a continuous internal publication (quarterly) approved by Gansu Provincial Press and Publication Bureau. Comprehensively reflect and report the research status, theory and method system, research hotspots and frontiers, application practice and progress of ecological economics at home and abroad. Academician cheng.

Resources, Environment and Development is a continuous internal periodical (quarterly) approved by Gansu Provincial Press and Publication Bureau, which was founded in 2000. Publicize the principles and policies of the Party and the state on resource development, environmental protection and regional development, and explore academic and policy issues related to the sustainable development of national and regional resources, environment, population and social economy. Editor-in-Chief: Professor Zhao Jun.

Polaris is a comprehensive publication sponsored by the Youth League Committee of the College of Geography and Environmental Sciences, which is aimed at exchanges among universities in the province. This is a place for college students to express their feelings and express their academic opinions. Founded in April of 199 1, the original name was Friends of Youth, and later it was renamed Voice of Youth, and its current name has been changed since the thirteenth issue. At present, there are columns such as "Wen Yuan Shijiao", "Kehai boating", "Selected Prose", "Growth Footprint" and "Love Flowing". In history, a large number of famous experts and scholars have taught here successively, such as Zou Baojun, Wan Fangxiang, Fu Jiaojin, Lu Cunhe, Jiao Beichen, Wei, Liu Zhongyu, Dong Wenlang, Li Zongfang, Zheng Baoxi, Chen Zhongquan, Dong Hongru, Zhan Qiren and Xiang Chuanbi.

By the end of 20 13, the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences of Northwest Normal University had more than 70 faculty members headed by Academician Cheng, including 23 professors, 9 associate professors 18, 9 doctoral tutors, 43 master tutors, 7 postdoctoral doctors, 33 doctors (including doctoral students), 32 masters and well-known experts and scholars1. By the end of 20 13, the College of Geography and Environmental Sciences of Northwest Normal University had full-time undergraduates 1239, 286 master students, 28 doctoral students and 2 international students 12. There are teaching auxiliary institutions such as the Experimental Center of the College of Geography and Environmental Sciences and the Library and Information Center of the College of Geography and Environmental Sciences.