Zhang, Lulu
Associate Programme Officer | Focal Point for Agri-food and Forest Systems & Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
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- INSTITUTE:
- UNU-FLORES
- OFFICE:
- UNU-FLORES, Ammonstrasse 74, Dresden, 01067, Germany
- E-MAIL:
- lzhang@unu.edu
- PHONE:
- +49 351 7999 3806
- NATIONALITY:
- German
Research Interests
- Agriculture and forest systems
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Multifunctional landscape and land-use system
- Science-policy interface and payment for ecosystem services
Education
- PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), Nature conservation and landscape management, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany (2015)
- Dipl.-Ing., Environmental Protection and Spatial Planning, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany (2009)
- Bachelor, Environmental Engineering, Ocean University of China (2003)
Appointments
- Member of Sino-EU Panel on Land and Soil (SEPLS), appointed by European Commission
- Expert of the Agricultural European Innovation Partnership (EIP-AGRI) Focus Group on Soil Contamination, appointed by European Commission
- Member of the UN-Water Expert Group on Regional Level Coordination, UNU-FLORES
Biographical Statement
Lulu Zhang is an Associate Programme Officer at UNU-FLORES. She is also the Scientific Focal Point of the Educational Programmes and Chair of the Joint Academic Committee. Her research aims to unlock the potential of the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to produce food, energy, and clean water, and to store carbon in meeting future demand without further depleting finite natural resources.
Lulu started her career in academia with a personal grant from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for her PhD. Her research focused on assessing land-based interventions, anthropogenic activities, and climate change on soil and water ecosystem services. At UNU, Lulu further developed her expertise and professional experience in transdisciplinary work and capacity development. Her specialisation includes quantifying and evaluating natural resources and environmental and socioeconomic consequences of their uses under global change conditions at various scales, in close cooperation with practitioners and stakeholders. Such experience and knowledge has given her insights into developing adaptive management to enhance sustainable natural resource management. Lulu leads and manages several projects in different regions, including China, Germany, Nigeria, and Tanzania, awarded by various funding agencies and state ministries. She has also provided consultancy services to the German Development Agency (GIZ).
Further Information
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Articles
- Ferolla Prates, Luisa, Karthe, Daniel, Zhang, Lulu, Wang, Lili, O',Connor, Jack, Lee, Halim and Dornack, Christina (2023). Sustainability for All? The challenges of predicting and managing the potential risks of end-of-life electric vehicles and their batteries in the Global South.. Environmental Earth Sciences, 82(143), n/a-n/a
- Anyaoha, Kelechi E. and Zhang, Lulu (2022). Technology-based comparative life cycle assessment for palm oil industry: the case of Nigeria. Environment, Development and Sustainability, n/a-n/a
- Anyaoha, Kelechi E. and Zhang, Lulu (2022). Transition from fossil-fuel to renewable-energy-based smallholder bioeconomy: Techno-economic analyses of two oil palm production systems. Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, 10, 1-8
- Anyaoha, Kelechi E. and Zhang, Lulu (2021). Renewable energy for environmental protection: Life cycle inventory of Nigeria's palm oil production. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 174, 1-11
- Zhang, Lulu (2020). Planting trees must be done with care – it can create more problems than it addresses. The Conversation, n/a-n/a
- Du, Yi, Wang, Xiaoyan, Zhang, Lulu, Feger, Karl-Heinz, Popp, Jennie and Sharpley, Andrew (2019). Multi-Stakeholders’ Preference for Best Management Practices based on Environmental Awareness. Journal of Cleaner Production, 236, 1-12
- Schwärzel, Kai, Zhang, Lulu, Montanarella, Luca, Wang, Yanhui and Sun, Ge (2019). How afforestation affects the water cycle in drylands: A process‐based comparative analysis. Global Change Biology, n/a-n/a
- Lee, Hakyung and Zhang, Lulu (2018). Afforestation Increases Water Supply – But Only with These Considerations. SDG Knowledge Hub, n/a-n/a
- Zhang, Lulu and Schwärzel, Kai (2018). To Realize Land’s True Value, We Need to Invest In It Wisely. SDG Knowledge Hub, n/a-n/a
- Schwärzel, Kai, Zhang, Lulu, Strecker, Andreas and Podlasly, Christian (2018). Improved Water Consumption Estimates of Black Locust Plantations in China’s Loess Plateau. Forests, 9(4), 1-21
- Kirschke, Sabrina, Zhang, Lulu and Meyer, Kristin (2018). Decoding the Wickedness of Resource Nexus Problems — Examples from Water-Soil Nexus Problems in China. Resources, 7(4), 1-15
- Zhang, Lulu and Schwärzel, Kai (2017). China’s Land Resources Dilemma: Problems, Outcomes, and Options for Sustainable Land Restoration. Sustainability, 9(12), 1-13
- Zhang, Lulu, Feger, Karl-Heinz, Schwärzel, Kai, Podlasly, Christian and Wang, Yanhui (2015). Different Land Management Measures and Climate Change Impacts on the Runoff: A Simple Empirical Method Derived in a Mesoscale Catchment on the Loess Plateau. Journal of Arid Environments, 120, 42-50
- Yu, Miaozi, Zhang, Lulu, Xu, Xuexuan, Feger, Karl-Heinz, Wang, Yanhui, Liu, Wenzhao and Schwärzel, Kai (2015). Impact of Land-Use Changes on Soil Hydraulic Properties of Calcaric Regosols on the Loess Plateau, NW China. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 178(3), 486-498
- Zhang, Lulu (2015). North-west China Water Supply Impacted by Vegetation Restoration. ourworld.unu.edu, n/a-n/a
- Zhang, L., Podlasly, C., Ren, Y., Feger, K.H., Wang, Y., Schwärzel, K. (2014): Separating the effects of changes in land management and climatic conditions on long-term streamflow trends analyzed for a small catchment in the Loess Plateau region, NW China. Hydrological Processes, 28, 1284-1293.
Books
- Multifunctional Land-Use Systems for Managing the Nexus of Environmental Resources, ed. Zhang, Lulu and Schwärzel, Kai (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017).
- Wolff, M., Zhang, L. (2010): Soil classification in the Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve. GRIN Publishing GmbH, Munich, ISBN 978-3-640-70013-4.
Book Chapters
- Grönwall, Jenny, Kjellén, Marianne, Eckstein, Gabriel, Danert, Kerstin, Witmer, Lesha, Welling, Rebecca, Re, Viviana, Davis, Katharina and Zhang, Lulu, “Groundwater policy and planning” in The United Nations World Water Development Report 2022: GROUNDWATER: Making the invisible visible, ed. Connor, Richard (Paris: UNESCO, 2022), 155-162.
- De Souza, Marlos, Koo-Oshima, Sasha, Kahil, Taher, Wada, Yoshihide, Qadir, Manzoor, Jewitt, Graham, Cudennec, Christophe, Uhlenbrook, Stefan and Zhang, Lulu, “Food and agriculture” in The United Nations World Water Development Report 2021: Valuing Water (Paris: UNESCO, 2021), 67-78.
- Tischbein, Bernhard, Bekchanov, Maksud, Lamers, John P. A., Kumar, Navneet, Schwärzel, Kai, Zhang, Lulu, Avellán, Tamara, Awan, Usman Khalid, Akhtar, Fazlullah, Bhaduri, Anik, Bogardi, Janos J., Wang, Yanhui, Yu, Pengtao, Bui, Anh, Nevado Amell, Mauricio Andres, Tesch, Luana, Pedrosa, Lúcia La Barca, Mariano, Renato, Balachandran, Sanjana and Brüggemann, Kurt, “Examples of Water and Land Use Management” in Handbook of Water Resources Management: Discourses, Concepts and Examples, ed. Bogardi, Janos J., Gupta, Joyeeta, Nandalal, K.D.W., Salamé, Léna, van Nooijen, Ronald R. P., Kumar, Navneet, Tingsanchali, Tawatchai, Bhaduri, Anik and Kolechkina, Alla G. (Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2021), 565-617.
- Hettiarachchi, Hiroshan, Bouma, Johan, Caucci, Serena and Zhang, Lulu, “Organic Waste Composting Through Nexus Thinking: Linking Soil and Waste as a Substantial Contribution to Sustainable Development” in Organic Waste Composting through Nexus Thinking: Practices, Policies, and Trends, ed. Hettiarachchi, Hiroshan, Caucci, Serena and Schwärzel, Kai (Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020), 1-15.
- Caucci, Serena, Zhang, Lulu, Locher-Krause, Karla and Hülsmann, Stephan, “Sustainable development as the ultimate target of adopting a nexus approach to resources management” in Sustainable Development and Resource Productivity. The Nexus Approaches, ed. Lehmann, Harry (London: Routledge, 2020), 67-79.
- De Souza, Marlos, Yo, Nishimura, Burke, Jacob, Cudennec, Christophe, Schmitter, Petra, Haileslassie, Amare, Smith, Mark, Hülsmann, Stephan, Caucci, Serena, Zhang, Lulu and Stewart, Bruce, “Agriculture and food security” in The United Nations World Water Development Report 2020: WATER AND CLIMATE CHANGE, ed. Connor, Richard (Paris: UNESCO, 2020), 78-95.
- Zhang, Lulu and Schwärzel, Kai, “Reinforce Water and Climate Co-benefits in Actions to Control Soil Erosion” in Proceedings of the Global Symposium on Soil Erosion 2019 (Rome: FAO, 2019), 458-460.
- Zhang, Lulu and Schwärzel, Kai, “Applying Multifunctionality to Address the Challenges and Benefits of Land-Use Management” in Multifunctional Land-Use Systems for Managing the Nexus of Environmental Resources (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017), 1-10.
- Zhang, Lulu and Schwärzel, Kai, “Implementation of Multifunctional Land Management: Research Needs” in Multifunctional Land-Use Systems for Managing the Nexus of Environmental Resources (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017), 137-148.
- Zhen, Lin, Sheng, Wenping, Wang, Chao and Zhang, Lulu, “Multifunctional Agriculture and the Relationship Between Different Functions” in Multifunctional Land-Use Systems for Managing the Nexus of Environmental Resources (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017), 53-67.
- Schwärzel, Kai, Ardakanian, Reza, Avellán, Tamara and Zhang, Lulu, “Nexus Approach: Resource Management for Soil Productivity” in Encyclopedia of Soil Science, Third Edition, ed. Lal, Rattan (Florida: CRC Press, 2016), 1530-1534.
Conference Publications
- Zhang, L., Feger, K.H., Schwärzel, K. (2014). Large-scale soil conservation measures contribute to water insecurity in NW China, EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 16, 3653
- Wahren, A., Zhang, L., Feger, K.H. (2010). Assessment of scenario-driven landscape water budget – embedded in a model framework for decision support in land-use planning in mountainous Southwest China. In: Langenberger, G. (eds.): Land use in the Greater Mekong Subregion – A challenge for Society, Economy and Biodiversity, LILAC Symposium, October 11 – 14, Xishuangbanna, P.R. China, 56.
Conference Proceedings
- Zhang, L. (2014): Nexus Approaches to Soil, Water and Land-use Management in China. In: Hülsmann, S., Ito, M., Ardakanian, R. (eds.): Proceedings of International Kick-off Workshop “Advancing a Nexus Approach to the Sustainable Management of Water, Soil and Waste”. Dresden, UNU-FLORES.
- Zhang, L., Feger K.H., Wang, Y., Schwärzel, K. (2014): Ein Top-down-Ansatz zur Abschätzung des jährlichen Abflusses eines mesoskaligen Einzugsgebietes im Mittellauf des Gelben Flusses. In: Cyffka, B. (Hrsg.): Beiträge zum Tag der Hydrologie 2014 in Eichstätt, Forum für Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung, Heft 34.14, Hennef, 261-266.
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- Multifunctional Land-Use Systems for Managing the Nexus of Environmental Resources (MuLu)
- Water yield response to changes in land-use and climate in a semihumid/-arid transition region (Jinghe basin, Northwest China) (Water-LUC)
- Organic Waste Composting through Nexus Thinking
- Sustainable Energy for Climate Protection
- Water and Carbon Cycle under Global Change Conditions
- Resource Nexus Perspective on Climate Resilient Agri-Food System: Stakeholder Analysis, Land Management and Business Decisions (KlimaKonform)
- Multifunctional Use of Agricultural Landscapes Under Climate Change Conditions
- Global Water and Climate Adaptation Center – Aachen, Bangkok, Chennai, Dresden
- Integrating the Resource Nexus in Payments for Watershed Ecosystem Services: Conception and Application
- Accounting Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystem Services Through Land Management for Agri-Food and Forest Systems Resilience.
- Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture (UPA) and Climate Change: Impacts, Mitigation, and Adaptation