Yuqing Chen is a Research Fellow at the Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University. Her research focuses on natural capital and ecosystem accounting, including the UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting—Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA-EA), and their application to environmental planning, landscape management and natural resource decision-making.

Her research examines how natural capital and ecosystem accounting can integrate environmental and socio-economic information to support practical decision-making. Her work spans a range of environmental management contexts, including integrated ridge-to-reef management, the conservation and restoration of critically endangered Box-Gum Grassy Woodlands, and the assessment and valuation of water-related ecosystem services to inform catchment management and water pricing.

Yuqing completed her PhD at ANU in 2025, examining the policy applications of ecosystem accounting. Her current research also applies GIS, remote sensing and deep learning to landscape and vegetation monitoring, including the detection of individual paddock trees across Australian agricultural landscapes, to support environmental accounting and landscape-scale monitoring.

Her research interests include natural capital and ecosystem accounting; the application of ecosystem accounting to environmental, landscape and natural resource management; integrated land-sea management; ecosystem services; and the use of GIS, remote sensing and deep learning for environmental monitoring.