Prof. Zhou Dingyang received her Ph.D. in agricultural sciences from the Department of Ecosystem Science at the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2011. She also earned an M.A. in management from the Department of Land Resource Management, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University, in 2008. Prof. Zhou is an associate professor at the College of Resources, Beijing Normal University, where she has taught since 2012. Her courses include resource and environmental policies and regulations and land planning and management.