Eco-Disasters: What Happened and How to Prevent Them
暫譯: 生態災難：發生了什麼及如何預防

Dr. Seok Soon Park is a professor emeritus in the department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea and currently active as a South Korean ambassador to the World Climate Intelligence Foundation headquartered in the Netherlands and a member of CO2 Coalition in the United States. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Science from Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey) in 1983 and 1985, after graduating from Seoul National University with B.S in Zoology, in 1980. Since he returned to South Korea as an invited outstanding scientist sponsored by the Korea Science Foundation in March 1988, he has published over 150 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and written and translated more than 30 books on the environmental impact of poverty, environmental disasters, systems ecology, eco-hazard of electromagnetic fields, climate change, water quality management, and environmental laws, etc. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Environmental Science at Rutgers University, a visiting professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University, and the 17th President of the Korea National Institute of Environmental Research. He has also been involved in various roles such as the 11th President of the Korean Environmental Education Association, a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Education, Science and Technology, a member of the Presidential Green Growth Committee, and the Vice President of the Research Affairs at Ewha Womans University. During his undergraduate studies at Seoul National University, I received the Best Basic Science Award at a nationwide college student academic contest (1979). He has also received the Best Scientist and Engineer Award of the Month from Korea Research Foundation (2007) and Korea Presidential Award on Green Growth (2013). He was invited to deliver a keynote lecture at the 2009 International Society for Ecological Modelling Conference (Quebec, Canada) in recognition of the outstanding quality of his paper.

朴錫淳博士是韓國梨花女子大學環境科學與工程系的名譽教授，目前擔任位於荷蘭的世界氣候情報基金會的韓國大使，以及美國二氧化碳聯盟的成員。他於1980年畢業於首爾國立大學，獲得動物學學士學位，並於1983年和1985年在羅格斯大學（新澤西州新布倫瑞克）獲得環境科學碩士和博士學位。自1988年3月以韓國科學基金會贊助的傑出科學家身份回到韓國以來，他已在同行評審的期刊上發表了超過150篇研究論文，並撰寫和翻譯了30多本有關貧困的環境影響、環境災害、系統生態學、電磁場的生態危害、氣候變遷、水質管理和環境法等主題的書籍。他曾在羅格斯大學環境科學系擔任博士後研究員，在普林斯頓大學土木與環境工程系擔任訪問教授，並擔任韓國國立環境研究所第17任所長。他還擔任過多個職位，包括韓國環境教育協會第11任會長、總統教育、科學與技術諮詢委員會成員、總統綠色成長委員會成員，以及梨花女子大學研究事務副校長。在首爾國立大學的本科期間，他在全國大學生學術比賽中獲得最佳基礎科學獎（1979年）。他還曾獲得韓國研究基金會的當月最佳科學家與工程師獎（2007年）以及韓國總統綠色成長獎（2013年）。他因其論文的卓越品質而受邀在2009年國際生態建模學會會議（加拿大魁北克）上發表主題演講。