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Dai Yeun Jeong

 

Dai Yeun Jeong

Jeju National University
South Korea

Abstract Title: Director of Asia Climate Change Education Center

Biography:

Dai-Yeun Jeong is presently the Director of Asia Climate Change Education Center, an emeritus professor at Jeju National University in South Korea, and the Acting Director at Jeju Secretariat of UNESCO World Network of Island and Coastal Biosphere Reserves. He received BA and MA degree in sociology from Korea University (South Korea), and PhD in environmental sociology from University of Queensland (Australia). He was a professor of environmental sociology at Jeju National University (South Korea) from 1981 to 2012. His past major professional activities include a teaching professor at University of Sheffield (UK), the president of Asia-Pacific Sociological Association, a delegate of South Korean Government to UNFCCC and OECD environmental meeting, and a member of Presidential Commission on Sustainable Development Republic of Korea, etc. He has published 60 environment-related research papers in domestic and international journals and 13 books including Environmental Sociology. He has conducted 100 unpublished environment-related research projects funded by domestic and international organizations.

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