2015 Karen Polenske Best Student Paper Award was awarded to a paper titled “A nighttime light imagery estimation of ethnic disparity in economic well-being in mainland China and Taiwan (2001–2013)”

Jianzheng Liu

I received the 2015 Karen Polenske Best Student Paper Award in 2015 IACP Conference at Chongqing University together with a prize of 1000 USD. Karen R. Polenske Best Student Paper Award, established in honor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Karen Polenske – a prominent regional economist and a leading scholar of China’s sustainable development – is awarded annually to student IACP members who present excellent research at major international planning conferences.