Wei-Ta Fang

Wei-Ta Fang (Chinese: 方偉達; pinyin: Fȧng Wĕidá) is a Taiwanese wetland scientist and Environmental educator, a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Graduate Institute of Environmental Education, National Taiwan Normal University.[1] President of the Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS) Asia Chapter.[2]

Wei-Ta Fang
Born
Fang Wei-ta

Kaohsiung, Taiwan
NationalityRepublic of China
Alma materHarvard University, Arizona State University, Texas A&M University
OccupationProfessor and Director
Years active2012–present
Children2

Early life and education

Fang was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on 14 February 1966. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in land economics and administration from National Taipei University in 1989. He completed a master's degree in environmental planning (MEP) from Arizona State University, in 1994, followed by a second master's degree in landscape architecture in design studies (MDes.S.) from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2001. He obtained a Ph.D. from the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University in 2005.[3]

Career

He served as a specialist in the Taipei Land Management Bureau in 1991 and 1992 and a senior specialist in charge of environmental education and environmental impact assessments (EIAs) at Taiwan's Environmental Protection Administration(EPA) Headquarters from 1994 to 2006. He was also Coprincipal Investigator (Co-PI) for the National Environmental Literacy Survey in Taiwan during 2012and 2020. He is currently serving as Distinguished Professor and as Director of the Graduate Institute of Environmental Education, National Taiwan Normal University, and is President of the Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS) Asia Chapter.[4] He was awarded the designation of Visiting Research Fellow from the Director, Dr. Xingyuan He at the Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Changchun, China in March 2016[4]

Publications
  • 《Tourism in Emerging Economies: The Way We Green, Sustainable, and Healthy》[5]
  • 《Envisioning Environmental Literacy: Action and Outreach》[6]

References
  1. "Wei Ta Fang". Graduate Institute of Environmental Education, NTNU. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  2. "2011 Society of Wetland Scientists Asia Chapter". www.swsasia.org. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  3. "Wei-Ta Fang". Intechopen. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  4. "Congratulations Dr. Wei- Ta Fang". Society of Wetland Scientists. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  5. Fang, Wei-Ta. (2020). Tourism in emerging economies: the way we green, sustainable, and healthy. Singapore: Springer. ISBN 978-981-15-2463-9. OCLC 1135206163.
  6. FANG, WEI-TA. (2020). ENVISIONING ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY : action and outreach. [S.l.]: SPRINGER. ISBN 978-981-15-7005-6. OCLC 1158211158.
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