Prof. Conghe Song is a full professor in the Department of Geography and a faculty fellow in the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He conducts research with remotely sensed data, household surveys, and ecological models to understand how land surface is changing, why it is changing and what the associated social-ecological consequences of these changes are.

His recent research publications on coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) include:

• Labor migration and forest dynamics under payments for ecosystem services (Zhang et al. 2020)
• Household livelihoods and income inequality under forest policies (Zhang et al. 2019)
• Labor migration and forest conservation (Zhang et al. 2018)
• Cropland abandonment and forest conservation (Zhang et al. 2018)
• Energy use under forest policies (Song et al. 2018)
• Evaluating conservation with remote sensing observations (Zhang et al. 2018)
• Comparative analysis of forest sustainability (Song et al. 2014)