KLSE Research focuses on the ecology of social-economic-natural ecosystems. The main research areas include interaction between humans and natures at multiple scales, ecological cybernetics in SENCE; methodology of ecological assessment, planning and management of SENCE; multi-disciplinary study on major environmental and ecological problems in China; and policy study on urban and regional sustainable development, including the following fields:
(1) Structure, processes, functions and cybernetics of SENCE;
(2) Spatial patterns and ecological processes of SENSE;
(3) Response and dynamics of SENCE stressed by human activity;
(4) Ecological assessment, planning and management of SENCE;
(5) Approaches of ecological industry, environmental protection, ecological construction.
(6) China Studies and Environmental Policy Studies