陳 碧霞

Dr. Chen’s research focuses on village landscape, rural regeneration, forest park management, forest tourism, and rural tourism. She has been working on the fengshui village landscape and fengshui trees in Okinawa, Japan, from a comparative perspective with the other regions in East Asia, Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Korea. She has traveled to over 30 islands in Ryukyu Archipelago. Extensive field works have been conducted in Okinawa Islands, recently extended to Yaeyama Islands, the southernmost part of Japan. Her current work includes the inventory of remnant Fengshui trees on small islands of the Ryukyu Archipelagos, and the management and conservation strategy for traditional village landscapes and old growth trees on the islands. She has published a book titled “Traditional Rural Landscapes in Island Topography in East Asia” and relevant research papers.