Jianguo Wu
· Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Landscape Ecology and Sustainability ScienceArizona State University · Global Futures School of Sustainability
Active 1989–2026
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About
Jianguo Wu is the Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Landscape Ecology and Sustainability Science at the School of Life Sciences and the School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA. He earned his B.S. in biology from Inner Mongolia University in 1982, followed by an M.S. in 1987 and a Ph.D. in ecology in 1991 from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA. He completed postdoctoral fellowships supported by the National Science Foundation at Cornell University (1991-1992) and Princeton University (1992-1993). His current research focuses on landscape ecology, urban ecology, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, and landscape sustainability science. He has authored or edited 20 books and more than 400 journal articles and book chapters. Since 2005, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Landscape Ecology and is a member of editorial boards for several international journals on ecology and interdisciplinary research. Wu has held leadership roles including Chair of the Asian Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of America, Program Chair and Councilor-at-Large of the US Association for Landscape Ecology, and founding director positions at the Sino-US Center of Conservation, Energy and Sustainability Science and the Center for Human-Environment System Sustainability at Beijing Normal University. His major awards include the American Association for the Advancement of Science Award for International Scientific Cooperation (2006), election as…
Research topics
- Geography
- Political Science
- Environmental science
- Economics
- Ecology
- Economic geography
- Economic growth
- Natural resource economics
- Biology
- Environmental planning
Selected publications
Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions
Nature Communications · 2021 · 1664 citations
Urbanization and climate change are together exacerbating water scarcity-where water demand exceeds availability-for the world's cities. We quantify global urban water scarcity in 2016 and 2050 under four socioeconomic and climate change scenarios, and explored potential solutions. Here we show the global urban population facing water scarcity is projected to increase from 933 million (one third of global urban population) in 2016 to 1.693-2.373 billion people (one third to nearly half of global…
Grassland ecosystem services: a systematic review of research advances and future directions
Landscape Ecology · 2020 · 372 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingUrbanization-associated farmland loss: A macro-micro comparative study in China
Land Use Policy · 2020 · 69 citations
Urban Science: Integrated Theory from the First Cities to Sustainable Metropolises
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2020 · 54 citations
A landscape ecological approach to spatial conservation planning – ecological security pattern
Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2025-09-02 · 13 citations
reviewSenior author
Recent grants
NSF · $849k · 2006–2012
NSF · $577k · 2014–2019
Frequent coauthors
- 91 shared
Xingguo Han
Lanzhou Jiaotong University
- 62 shared
Yongfei Bai
- 53 shared
Jianhui Huang
Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 42 shared
Chunyang He
- 38 shared
Qingmin Pan
Jiangsu University
- 27 shared
Deyong Yu
Beijing Normal University
- 27 shared
Zhifeng Liu
Beijing Normal University
- 26 shared
Qun Ma
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Education
- 1982
B.S.
Inner Mongolia University
- 1987
M.S.
Miami University
- 1991
Ph.D.
Miami University
Awards & honors
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) A…
- Elected AAAS Fellow (2007)
- Leopold Leadership Fellow (2009)
- Distinguished Landscape Ecologist Award from United States A…
- Outstanding Scientific Achievements Award from International…
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