Dr. Yuan Huang is a faculty member at the School of Economics, Shanghai University, China. She earned her PhD in Agricultural and Forestry Economics and Management from Beijing Forestry University before undertaking postdoctoral research at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on forest resource management, urban green spaces, and ecosystem services, with particular interests in ecological compensation, public participation, forest-based livelihoods, and human well-being. Combining questionnaire surveys, spatial analysis, and econometric methods, she explores the relationships between people and forests to inform sustainable resource management and environmental governance.