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Urban land is the primary scene for manufacturing and services providing, through which the economic activities and trade flows amplify and cascade, interacting the natural and human systems. However, our understanding of the spatial pattern, remote drivers, and coupled interwoven linkages of economic sectoral land use within and among cities remai...
The pulp and paper industry is an important contributor to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions1,2. Country-specific strategies are essential for the industry to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, given its vast heterogeneities across countries3,4. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive bottom-up assessment of net GHG emissions of the domestic...
The non-food bioeconomy is widely recognized as a crucial strategy to address climate change. However, the growing non-food demand for biomass, such as bioenergy and bio-based products, is leading to global land use changes and consequent greenhouse gas emissions. In this study, a global region-and biomass-specific land-use emissions (LUE) inventor...
As the largest global producer and consumer of pulp and paper, China faces significant sustainability challenges in fiber supply and waste paper management. A comprehensive material flow analysis of China’s pulp and paper industry (CPPI) is needed to understand the interaction between raw material supply and waste paper man agement. Here, we constr...
Given the increasing influence of international trade on regional land use, this paper presents a comprehensive overview of forest land use across global supply chains by means of embodiment accounting based on EXIOBASE3 database, with a specific focus on the climate vulnerability and adaptation readiness of supply chain agents. Globally, 2268.3 mi...
The globally booming renewable power industry has stimulated an unprecedented interest in metals as key infrastructure components. Many economies with different endowments and levels of technology participate in various production stages and cultivate value in global renewable power industry production networks, known as global renewable power valu...
The low-carbon power transition, which is key to combatting climate change, has far-reaching effects on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in terms of issues such as resource use, environmental emissions, employment, and many more. Here, we assess the potential impacts of the power transition on progress toward achieving multiple SD...
The process of industrialization often causes resource depletion and environmental pollution. To shed light on China’s resource use and pollution trends in the context of the country’s rapid industrial growth, this study analyzes the eco-efficiency of China’s industry from 2000 to 2015. We quantify industrial eco-efficiency (IEE) for China and its...
Seafood plays a critical role in promoting a nutritious and climate-friendly food system but faces challenges from marine contamination that pose food safety risks. To address these challenges, we developed a Marine Pollution-induced Food System Risk Assessment and Response (MP-FSRAR) model to assess the impact of consumer perceptions of marine pol...
The international trade of oil/gas-implicated commodities could potentially jeopardize global methane mitigation targets when exporting countries have loose or even no methane regulations. Therefore, this paper constructs a demand-driven impacts model to uncover the impact of global consumption and international trade on regional oil and gas methan...
Paper products are carbon-intensive and having a huge potential for carbon reduction due to their biomass-oriented characteristics. A uniform standard for total carbon footprint (CF) accounting is vital. However, the existing standards have not yet been unified. Inconsistencies between standards cause difficulties in their use and significantly wea...
The continued loss of unfragmented intact forest landscapes (IFLs) despite numerous global conservation initiatives indicates the need for improved knowledge of proximate and underlying drivers. Yet the role of non-agricultural activities in forest degradation and fragmentation has not received adequate attention. We focus on IFL loss caused by var...
Urban land is the primary scene for economic manufacturing and services providing, through which the economic activities and trade flows amplify and cascade, interacting the natural and human systems. However, our understanding of the economic sectoral urban land metabolism remains inadequate. Here, we establish a spatially explicit sectoral urban...
Both the ever-complex international and subnational supply chains could relocate health burdens and economic benefits across India, leading to the widening of regional inequality. Here, we simultaneously track the unequal distribution of fine particle matter (PM2.5) pollution, health costs, and value-added embodied in inter- and intranational expor...
Low-carbon power transition, key to combatting climate change, brings far-reaching effects on achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in terms of resources use, environmental emissions, employment, and many more. Here we assess the potential impacts of power transition on multiple SDGs progress across 49 economies under six socio-economic-c...
China implemented the Promoting the Big and Quashing the Small Policy (PBQSP) in 2007 to alleviate air pollution due to coal-fired power plants (CFPPs). However, how the policy affected the air pollutant emissions remains poorly understood. We compared the air pollutant emissions between decommissioned and newly-built CFPPs under the PBQSP by devel...
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Previous research papers on urban water resources accounting were confined to the perspectives of production and consumption, ignoring the perspective of income. This paper proposes a systems framework to analyze the income, production, and consumption-based water uses and underlying driving forces of a city based on the methods of multi-scale inpu...
China’s power sector as the major CO2 emitter has experienced significant restructuring, which has profound impacts on employment in both power and its upstream sectors. Combining the input-output and structural path analysis, we quantified the direct and indirect impacts of power transformation on employment in China during 2012-2017. The direct e...
China has implemented a series of measures to address air pollutants and carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants, which can mitigate toxic heavy metal emissions simultaneously. By integrating plant-level information and energy activity data, we investigated the co-benefits of clean air and low-carbon policies by compiling a detailed inventory...
Holistic evolution of the global oil supply chain is revealed from both physical and virtual oil use perspectives in parallel, distinctively based on inter-regional physical oil trade by oil products and virtual oil trade embodied in both oil and non-oil products during 2000–2015. Due to strengthening oil resource relocation along the complex suppl...
Low-carbon power transition, key to combatting climate change, brings far-reaching effects on achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in terms of resources use, environmental emissions, employment, and many more. Here we assessed the potential impacts of power transition on 49 regional multiple SDGs progress under three different climate sc...
China has built the world’s largest power transmission infrastructure by consuming massive volumes of greenhouse gas- (GHG-) intensive products such as steel. A quantitative analysis of the carbon implications of expanding the transmission infrastructure would shed light on the trade-offs among three connected dimensions of sustainable development,...
The intensifying globalization contributes to the anthropogenic methane (CH4) emissions outsourcing, a strong greenhouse gas and harmful air pollutant, through the increasingly complex global trade network. However, the CH4 flow patterns embodied in global traded goods and services have not been interpreted from the perspective of a complex network...
The growing environmental concerns and the prospect of irreversible climate change highlight the necessity for the rapid transformation from fossil-based economy to the modern circular bio-based economy. Yet the urgency of green transformation may lead to insufficient consideration of scientific concerns about the sustainability of accelerated biom...
Considering the globalization of forest land use and the influence of China’s socio-economic process on forest resources, this paper provides a comprehensive overview of China’s forest land use change in the globalized world economy during 2000–2011, by means of embodiment accounting based on EXIOBASE3 database. External demand, primarily from USA,...
Compared with centralized wastewater treatment systems, constructed wetlands are generally regarded as not suitable for wide deployment due to the comparatively larger direct land area. Much of the traditional thinking is based on an onsite perspective, while the offsite information is left out. By a comparative case study with systems accounting o...
The up-to-date city-level mercury emission inventory is essential for effective mitigation policy designs due to rapid changes in energy consumption and industrial structures in Chinese cities. This study updated the atmospheric mercury emission inventory in 2015 based on the most recent information on plant-specific air pollution control devices (...
China has implemented retrofitting measures in coal-fired power plants (CFPPs) to reduce air pollution through small unit shutdown, the installation of air pollution control devices (APCDs), and power generation efficiency improvement. The reductions in highly toxic Hg emissions and their related health impacts by these measures remain poorly under...
China is facing both serious water scarcity and climate change challenges simultaneously. There is an urgent need to identify the synergies between water conservation and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission mitigation. This paper aims to trace the embodied water uses and GHG emissions (i.e., CO2, CH4 and N2O) via China’s domestic supply chains in 2012 an...
The unprecedented global supply chain fragmentation brings an ever-increasing trade imbalance in terms of monetary flows between China and the United States. Associated with the bilateral trade imbalance is the reallocation of resources utilization and environmental stress. In this regard, this study presents an embodied energy model to investigate...
The spatial mismatch of energy resources and electricity demand in China drives the large-scale construction of power transmission infrastructure, which consumes a large amount of carbon-intensive products. However, a systematic accounting framework for the carbon emissions of power transmission infrastructure has not yet been established. This stu...
China has implemented retrofitting measures in coal-fired power plants (CFPPs) to reduce air pollution through small unit shutdown (SUS), the installation of air pollution control devices (APCDs) and power generation efficiency (PGE) improvement. The reductions in highly toxic Hg emissions and their related health impacts by these measures have not...
As the typical characteristic of globalization, large-scale agglomeration of headquarters in urban economies exerts extensive cross-border trade links, and inevitably generates energy use outside their boundary. Therefore, studies about urban economies' energy use profiles should pay special attention to the tremendous energy transfers embodied in...
The increasing energy demand in future will inevitably escalate pressures on water resources, as energy production needs huge amounts of water inputs. Globalization has resulted in the geographic separation between the source of water inputs for energy production and the sink of its final consumption, making it crucial to factor global supply chain...
There are overwhelming proofs that world-wide carbon emission profiles have been substantially shaped by carbon leakage through international trade. However, it has been unclear how structure and functions of the global carbon transfers evolve in terms of a complex network. Therefore, this study applies a series of network tools to depict the evolu...
Abstract China has long been committing to green transition of energy system to alleviate the heavy pollution; however, a quantitative analysis for its impact on air pollution has been lacking. To fill the knowledge gap, this study makes an initial attempt to reveal how green transition of energy system influences China's energy‐related mercury emi...
Cities are essential entities for dedicated mercury control policies. However, the city-level mercury emission inventory as the cornerstone of proper policy design is still in its infancy, due to data availability. For the first time, this study developed a comprehensive city-level atmospheric mercury emission inventory from coal combustion in Chin...
It's anticipated that future expansion of energy industry in China will inevitably exert enormous pressure on water use both at home and abroad, due to the globalized energy supply chains. Therefore, this study aims to systematically evaluate the global water use embodied in China's energy supply chains (i.e., energy supply, demand and internationa...
As an extension of our previous study on natural gas use in world economy ( Kan et al, Energy Policy 124 (2019) 215-225), this paper explores policy implications based on a time series analysis uncovering the evolution of natural gas use embodied in global supply chains during 2000-2011. Due to increasing gas supply from gas-rich regions to gas-sca...
The legally binding Minamata Convention implies that reducing mercury emissions has been an environmental mandate for China. As a fair and effective emission responsibility assignment framework is fundamental for mercury control policy design, this study measures China’s provincial shared producer and consumer responsibility for energy-related merc...
Reduction of methane emissions (CH 4) plays an important role in addressing global climate change. Most previous studies have focused on the direct CH 4 emissions of economies, but overlooked the upstream CH 4 emissions along global supply chains induced by the final consumption of economies. Using a global multi-regional input-output analysis, thi...
Production system-related air pollution emissions are dominant components in global emission reduction targets and in realizing relevant sustainable development goals (SDGs). To better understand the air pollution emissions induced by globalized production systems through a life cycle perspective, environmental extended multiregional input-output (...
Decoupling indicators are widely used to understand links between economic growth and energy use. However, traditional decoupling analyses mostly focus on domestic energy consumption (i.e., the production-based principle) and neglect off-site energy use across global supply chains to satisfy an economy’s final consumption (i.e., the consumption-bas...
Mercury emission flows in the global supply chains have evolved into an ever-increasing complex network. However, the underlying structural features remain unknown. Therefore, the global embodied mercury flow network was constructed to reveal the characteristics of energy-induced mercury emissions embodied in international trade at both national an...
As the world is smoothing the transition towards a low-carbon energy structure, natural gas has occupied a critical position in global energy supply. Also, globalization has catalyzed ever-increasing indirect energy flows in international trade. In order to present a comprehensive overview of natural gas use in globalized economy, this paper applie...
External trade has been approved to greatly affect environmental emissions by typical heterotrophic urban economies. However, the answers to questions such as how the trend of air pollutant embodied in external trade changes and what are the key influential factors need further exploration. Given that, using Macao as a case study, this paper first...
Reducing CH4 emissions is a major global challenge, owing to the world-wide rise in emissions and concentration of CH4 in the atmosphere, especially in the past decade. China has been the greatest contributor to global anthropogenic CH4 emissions for a long time, but current understanding towards its growing emissions is insufficient. This paper ai...
Public participation is an important means of achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) in western countries, but it's just in its infancy in China. Does public participation in China help reduce air pollutant emissions and contribute to sustainable development? In order to answer this question, effects of the China Air Pollution Map Applicati...
Agricultural production inevitably poses adverse impacts on local environment, while the collective action of farmers can also contribute positively to sustainable resources management. The structural component of economic actors’ integration is often related to social capital. This study analyses the impacts of farmers’ socio-economic conditions o...
Recognized as a highly toxic air pollutant, atmospheric mercury is a grave threat to both human health and environment. The comprehensive understanding of Chinese regional mercury emissions is fundamental for proper mitigation policy design. However, previous researches on regional mercury emissions usually focus on the direct emissions and fail to...
As agricultural land and freshwater inextricably interrelate and interact with each other, the conventional water and land policy in "silos" should give way to nexus thinking when formulating the land and water management strategies. This study constructs a systems multi-regional input-output (MRIO) model to expound global land-water nexus by simul...
Building a beautiful and livable countryside is essential to farmers' wellbeing, contributing to the development of New Socialist Countryside in China. Few of the existing studies have established a sound theoretical framework to evaluate rural human settlements from the perspective of farmers, who are the major beneficiaries of the rural human set...
The EEFN embodies the small-world nature and scale-free property at global level. • 4 communities are detected to understand the regionalization of EEFN. • Different role played by economies in EEFN are identified with centrality measures. • A diversity index is developed to quantify the security of embodied energy supply. A B S T R A C T Significa...
This article integrates the SVAR model and nonlinear ARDL (NARDL) model to analyze the long-run and short-run asymmetric effect of structural oil price shocks on the Chinese stock market. We reveal that, the demand-side shocks of oil price have a significant impact on the Chinese stock market in both short and long run, but the supply shock is an e...
As a member of the Kyoto Protocol, Macao faces the enormous challenge to tackle with energy conservation and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction. Though many studies have been devoted to understanding Macao's GHG emissions from energy consumption and external trade, an investigation of the underlying driving forces is still absent. Therefore, t...
By means of the three-scale input-output analysis, this study, taking Hebei Province in China as a case work, analyzes the water use in the provincial district and compares that between regional and urban economies. To the best of our knowledge, this paper pioneers providing a multi-scale perspective in a spectrum from global, national and regional...
Mercury emissions from nonferrous metal production have overtaken that from energy consumption as the leading contributor of global anthropogenic mercury emissions. Though Minamata Convention has put restrictions on import or export of mercury-added products, the inter-connected global economy that features an intensive correlated supply chain stil...
As the world's largest energy consumer, China contributes significantly to the global atmospheric mercury emissions, a toxic air pollutant with global importance. This study aims to systematically analyze China's energy-related mercury emissions in light of environmentally extended input-output analysis (EEIOA), considering the impact of China's in...