Aitong Li

Aitong Li
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  • PhD
  • Associate Professor at Shanghai Normal University

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Introduction
She received her bachelor's degree from Peking University, master's degree from Yale University, and doctoral degree from the University of Tokyo. She was a postdoctoral research fellow at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was the recipient of the 2022 Shanghai Leading Talent award. Currently, she teaches at SHNU and serves as a Data Policy Advisor at the Paris Office of the Committee on Data (CODATA) and as a member of the editorial board for Renewable Energies, published by Sage.
Current institution
Shanghai Normal University
Current position
  • Associate Professor

Publications

Publications (12)
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In the coming decades, China's nuclear energy expansion is expected to account for an increasing share of global nuclear growth. In addition to expanding domestic capacity, China aspires to become the world's important supplier of affordable nuclear reactors. The existing literature has evaluated China's nuclear exports but paid limited attention t...
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New discussions on carbon pricing are underway in Japan. In 2012, Japan introduced a nationwide carbon tax named the Global Warming Countermeasure Tax. However, a gap remains between the price level set by this tax and the levels needed for Japan to achieve its 2050 carbon neutrality goal. Combining perspectives from an Advocacy Coalition Framework...
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China and Japan have started to develop commercial offshore wind farms since the late 2000s and early 2010s. During the past decades, the gap in offshore wind capacity between the two countries widened. While China is poised to dominate the Asian offshore wind market, Japan remains at the initial stage of development. Combining the data from both s...
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Due to significant cost advantages, wind energy penetrated the energy mix of most large countries much faster than solar PV did until the recent decade. However, Japan has been almost one-sidedly leaning toward the more expensive solar PV. For using solar PV electricity, the Japanese consumers are also paying sizably higher tariffs than those in ot...
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Effective governance is crucial for developing various renewable energies, especially in their early stages. After the spectacular growth of onshore wind in the past decade, offshore wind is attracting an increasing amount of attention globally. As an archipelago and facing electricity shortage after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, Japan has b...
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Environmental problems are usually framed by a repertoire of arguments articulated by a network of individuals (scientists and policymakers) and their affiliated institutions. Given the complexity of this network, it is important to conduct network analyses on both individual and organizational levels to achieve a better understanding of the underl...
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Behind the Chinese government’s ambition to increase its forest cover to 15 % by 2050 is the large-scale tree plantation that continues to threaten millions of hectares of grasslands in China’s arid and semiarid regions. Though the negative environmental impacts of this tree plantation in arid and semiarid regions have been identified by some studi...
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Previous studies on the science-policy interface concentrate mostly on institutional arrangements that facilitate the information exchange between scientists and policymakers, but few address the internal structure of the scientist community and its impact on policy-making. Considering that science emerges from academic competition, the examination...

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