John D. Liu

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John D. Liu
Liu talking at the 2014 World Travel & Tourism Council's Global Summit in Hainan, China
Born1953 (age 70–71)
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Occupation(s)Film-maker, ecologist

John Dennis Liu (born 1953 in

Chinese American
film-maker and ecologist. He is also a researcher at several institutions. In January 2015, he was named Visiting Fellow at Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. John is also Ecosystem Ambassador for the Commonland Foundation based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 2017 John Liu founded Ecosystem Restoration Camps, a worldwide movement that aims to restore damaged ecosystems on a large scale.

Career

Early career

Liu was born in

National Geographic Channel he produced nature documentaries.[2] In 1995 he filmed the Loess Plateau in China, which was being transformed from a barren and eroded ground into an oasis by the government.[2][4]
At this point Liu noticed the possibility of humans restoring ecosystems, rather than only destroying them.

Ecological recovery and ideas

Liu retired from journalism in 1997 and became the director of the

Erasmus University, and founder of the Commonland Foundation an organization that works on large scale landscape restoration projects with a business approach, based on the 4 returns from landscape restoration
framework developed by Ferwerda. John Liu founded Ecosystem Restoration Camps in 2017, a worldwide movement that aims to restore damaged ecosystems on a large scale.

Research

Liu was named Rothamstead International Fellow for the Communication of Science at Rothamsted Research, an agricultural research institution. He also was an associate professor at the George Mason University as a part of the Center for Climate and Society, and a senior research fellow at the International Union for Conservation of Nature.[3] In January 2015 John was named Visiting Fellow at Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. John is also Ecosystem Ambassador for the Commonland foundation based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Writings

Liu has written for publications all over the world on a variety of topics, but he most consistently writes on the potential for the restoration of large-scale damaged ecosystems. He has written on ecosystem restoration for Kosmos magazine [7] as well as for The Christian Science Monitor[8] and for Forum for the Future in their Green Futures magazine.[9] He has also written about the spiritual side of ecology and ecosystem restoration.

Hope in a Changing Climate

Hope in a Changing Climate was first screened in Copenhagen at COP 15 and on

BBC World
. Since its launch, Hope has been translated into French, German, Chinese, Vietnamese, Polish, Russian and Spanish. The film was officially chosen to commemorate the United Nations International Year of Forests, 2011. It was the most viewed video on the WaterChannel for more than 12 months in 2010 and 2011.

Hope won the Best Documentary Short Film Award at Green Screen in Vancouver, Canada, 2011. The International Festival of Environmental Film and Video accepted the film into its highly competitive global festival, June 2010. Hope was entered into United States: Best in Category: Ecosystem award in the prestigious

IWWF
(Presenter, Storytelling, Scientific Content, Conservation Initiative, Conservation Message and Human-Environment) in its 33rd annual film festival, May 2010, in Missoula, Montana;

Green Gold

In conjunction with Dutch public broadcasting company

Basma bint Talal, where he works with well-known permaculture designer Geoff Lawton at the Permaculture Research Institute of Jordan.[10] In addition to Princess Talal and the Lawtons' thoughts (and projects), the documentary also features more of Liu's reflections on the regions he has visited.[11]
(Also known as "Regreening the Desert" available as a streaming video from Films on Demand by Films Media Group, at subscribing institutions.)

Filmography

  • Jane Goodall - China Diary (2003), wrote, produced and directed
  • Hope in a Changing Climate (2009), presented
  • Lessons of the Loess Plateau wrote, produced and directed
  • Scaling Up Poverty Reduction in China
  • Beating the Drum Loudly
  • A Line in the Sand
  • Because They're Worth It
  • The Long March
  • Women of the Gobi
  • Forests of Hope
  • Forests Keep Drylands Working
  • Food Security and Environmental Transformation in Ethiopia
  • Emerging in a Changing Climate
  • A Steppe Ahead
  • The Next Steppe in Mongolia's Energy Future
  • Leading With Agriculture

See also

References

  1. Chinadialogue.net
    . Retrieved 12 October 2013.
  2. ^ a b c Jip Mennema (24 April 2012). "John D. Liu - Ambassadeur van ecologisch herstel" (in Dutch). Tegenlicht, VPRO. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
  3. ^
    Vrije Universiteit
    . Retrieved 12 October 2013.
  4. ^ "VPRO, Tegenlicht, Aflevering Groen Goud" (in Dutch). VPRO. 30 April 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
  5. ^ "65th Prix Italia Winners" (PDF). Prix Italia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
  6. Netherlands Public Broadcasting
    . Retrieved 12 October 2013.
  7. ^ Liu, John D. (13 March 2018). "Finding Sustainability in Ecosystem Restoration". Kosmos.
  8. ^ "John Dennis Liu inspires people to save Earth's ecosystem". Christian Science Monitor. 13 September 2013.
  9. ^ http://www.forumforthefuture.org/greenfutures/articles/loess-leader
  10. ^ "Permacultureglobal.org - the interactive map and database of the Worldwide Permaculture Network". permacultureglobal.org.
  11. YouTube

External links

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