Research Interests

Public Administration, Resource and Environmental Economics, Environmental Governance and Green Transformation

Biography

• 1999-2003 Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Bachelor of Science.

• 2003-2008 Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Resource and Environmental Economics, Ph.D. in Economics.

• 2006-2007 Yale University Fox International Fellow

• 2008-Now Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University. Served as Lecturer and Associate Professor.

• 2016-Now Director of the Land and Resources Economics Research Center at Fudan University

Key Publications

Books:

• Liu, Pingyang, Economic Analysis of Rural Domestic Sewage Treatment, Beijing: China Environmental Publishing Group, July 2020.   

• Liu, Pingyang, Constraints and De-constraints of Natural Capital in Economic Growth, Shanghai: Fudan University Press, June 2011.   

• Zhang, Hongyan, Liu, Pingyang. Incentive Mechanisms of Rural Environmental Protection and Development, Beijing: Economic Management Press, December 2011.

Representative Peer Review Papers:

1. Qing, Y., He, Y., Liu, P.*, 2025. Carrot or stick? Policy mix and its direct and spillover contributions to regional carbon emissions. J. Environ. Manage. 389, 126164.   

2. Liu, Z., Liu, P.*, 2025. Has e-commerce promoted regional green consumption transformation? Evidence from chinese provincial panel data. Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. 112, 107833.  

3. Liu, P.*, Han, A., Yuan, Y., 2025. Community Leadership and Its Contribution to Rural Revitalization Under the Context of Population Hollowing-Out: Evidence From Shanghai, China. Population, Space and Place 31, e2880.   

4. Liu, P.*, Han, A., 2025. The neo-endogenous development perspective of stakeholders and their synergy in rural revitalization. Environ. Dev. Sustainability.   

5. Liu, P.*, Han, A., 2023. How Does Community Leadership Contribute to Rural Environmental Governance? Evidence from Shanghai Villages. Rural Sociology 88, 856–894.   

6. Han, A., Chai, L., Liu, P. *, 2023. How much environmental burden does the shifting to nutritional diet bring? Evidence of dietary transformation in rural China. Environmental Science & Policy 145, 129–138.  

7. Han, A., Liu, P. *, Wang, B., Zhu, A., 2023. E-commerce development and its contribution to agricultural non-point source pollution control: Evidence from 283 cities in China. Journal of Environmental Management 344, 118613.   

8. Liu, P. *, Bai, X., Ravenscroft, N., 2023. Counterurbanization, gentrification and the potential for rural revitalisation in China. Population, Space and Place 29, e2680.

9. Liu, P., Qi, S., Li, D., Ravenscroft, N., 2020. Promoting agricultural innovation as a means of improving China's rural environment. Journal of Environmental Management, 111675. (SCI)

10. Liu, P., Zhao, Y., Ravenscroft, N., & Harder, M. K (*). (2020). Responsibility-driven collective action in the context of rapid rural depopulation. Journal of Rural Studies, 75, 48-56. (SSCI)

11. (3).Du, Y., Liu, P. (*), Ravenscroft, N. et al. (2020). Changing community relations in southeast China: the role of Guanxi in rural environmental governance, Agriculture and Human Values. 37(3), 833-847. (SSCI)