Han Wang

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Guangxi University

Smallholder farmers play a key role in global food production, but multiple stressors such as climate change are impacting their farming operations, posing serious challenges to their livelihoods as well as to global food security. The Chinese government is comprehensively promoting the modern transformation of smallholder farmers. Faced with the t...

The mass adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) continuously requires the expansion of charging resources in the urban area. Such a continuing and dynamic problem associated with multi-level of uncertainties can hardly be tackled by deterministic models. To overcome this challenge, this paper newly proposes a progressive planning scheme (PPS) for dyna...

As one of the specific practices of natural resource index trading, the forest ecological bank policy (FEB) is essentially a market-based tool. With the deepening of ecological governance, the FEB policy has also become the main method chosen to solve the economic development problems in ecologically rich “low-lying” areas. However, in the process...

Virtual power plants (VPPs) and electric vehicle (EV) charging stations (CSs) have been attracting much attention in recent years. However, existing research rarely concerns the cooperation between VPPs and CSs that are managed by different stakeholders. To facilitate the cooperation between VPPs and CSs, this work proposes a cooperative operation...

Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) is an important way to address the problems of climate change and land desertification. However, there has been significant controversy about the high cost of restoration and whether it is economically feasible. Most cost-benefit analyses of ecological restoration plans have focused on a single ecosystem, without...

As a policy tool to promote sustainable development of coastal zone cities, Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) was introduced to China for experimentation in the 1990s. Among them, the Xiamen government took ICZM as an opportunity to conduct a large number of policy pilots, making the evaluation of the policy effects worth studying. This pap...

Within the cultural context of “guanxi” in China, it is particularly challenging to develop a framework capable to capture the complexity and adaptability of farmers facing conflicts between wetland conservation and livelihood development. In this paper, we integrate agent-based model (ABM) and field experimental methods to develop a hybrid simulat...

With ambitious carbon peak and carbon neutral targets, China has to realize it relies heavily on significant reductions in energy-related carbon emissions. Therefore, as the largest contributing region, resource-based cities (RBCs) must achieve an energy transition. Unfortunately, these cities are facing serious environmental problems. The aim of t...

Low‐carbon development is associated with eco‐industrial parks (EIPs), but whether a causal relationship exists is unknown. A growing body of evidence from environmental engineering studies suggests that EIPs reduce carbon emissions, but few economic studies have assessed the causality, channels, and heterogeneity of this relationship. This study u...

The number of electric vehicles (EVs) is growing rapidly due to environmental concerns and political supports. To better coordinate the charging behaviors of large numbers of EVs, the EV aggregator is an important intermediate between the electricity market and the EVs. This work proposes a two-stage optimal operational regime for an EV aggregator...

The role of cultural ecosystem services (CES) is vital to consider when developing ecological sustainable development policies that can improve the well-being of humans. Research on CES has increased in recent years; however, few studies have explored the complex mechanisms driving perceptions of CES and the factors influencing those perceptions. I...

Whether China’s economy can maintain sustainable growth has been debated both in China and internationally, and the most representative critique has been summarized in the “Krugman Query”. Faced with such doubts, how to achieve a “win-win” for economic growth and environmental protection has become one of the central objectives of local government...

In recent years, China had released various environmental regulations in order to respond climate change and corresponding environmental issues. However, due to imbalanced economic development and industrial structure, different Chinese regions had different enforcement levels on environmental regulations, which led to the regional transfer of poll...

China’s growth plans include a carbon emission peak policy, which is a restriction that indirectly impacts land use structure. In this study, we simulate different paths for achieving policy objectives, and explore the linkages between those paths and land use change. The IPAT model was used to simulate the carbon emissions generated from a natural...

In the 2018 Global Environmental Performance Index, China’s global air quality rank was fourth from last, indicating a more pronounced conflict between the environment and development compared with other countries. Because of the vastness of China’s land area, the development of different regions is imbalanced. The achievement of the stipulated goa...

Virtual power plant (VPP) has become an important resource for reserve provision owing to its fast-responding capability. In this paper, an optimal VPP operational regime considering reserve uncertainty is proposed, which includes a novel day-ahead offering strategy and a real-time dispatching model. At the day-ahead stage, the offering strategy gi...

Eco-environmental protection of river basins and compensation for damages have been important issues for researchers around the world for a long time. Many studies have focused on the correlations among individual socioeconomic characteristics, ecological cognition, and differences in the willingness to pay. However, no research has been conducted...

Mangrove reserves promote the protection of mangroves, but they also lead to the restriction of land development rights in the region, which is unfair to society. This paper aims to evaluate the impact of the spillover of coastal development. Taking the Shankou Mangrove Ecological Reserve in the Beibu Gulf of Guangxi as an example, this paper condu...

The Porter hypothesis states that environmental regulation can promote innovation. China faces serious environmental pressure and demand for innovation, and has a goal of becoming one of the most innovative countries by 2035. Due to China's vast territory and uneven development, realizing this goal will depend on both the economically developed coa...

To increase the energy utilization efficiency, it becomes fairly promising to convert the surplus electricity from renewable generation to other forms of energy for multi-dimensional consumption. In this paper, we propose a hybrid energy scheduling model for a multi-energy microgrid with the integration of the hydrogen energy storage system (HESS)...

As an important part of ecological externalities, the spatial spillover effect has attracted the attention of researchers in the field of environmental economics. However, the traditional view that the spillover mechanism of ecological externalities generally decreases in line with increases in distance remains to be thoroughly proven. Effective ec...

The greenhouse effect is a prominent climate issue affecting the whole world. Changes in land-use intensity are an important contributor to carbon emissions. In this context, it is arguably important to explore the multiple linkages between land use intensity changes caused by the transfer of land development rights, and carbon emissions. In this s...

The market and renewable generation uncertainties cast great challenges to the profit-oriented self-scheduling of commercial virtual power plants (VPP). To address the uncertainty issues, this paper proposes a two-stage minimax regret (MMR)-based optimization model to reach optimal VPP self-scheduling solutions, in which the underneath problem is i...

Promoting environmental regulation and the reduction of carbon emissions is of great significance for sustainable development. China plans to achieve the following two major goals by 2030: to experience the peak of carbon dioxide emissions, and to be at the forefront of innovative countries in the world. The realization of these goals not only depe...

To restore and protect the ecosystem service function of coastal zones, some farmers have changed their certain original production methods and lifestyles and some have even relinquished a portion of the economic benefits that could be obtained directly. What impacts do the coastal zone ecological protection policies bring to the livelihoods of coa...

Around the world, farming decision-making has been receiving increasing attention from the academic circles, while there is currently an important research gap regarding coastal farmers' farming decision-making. Natural disasters occur frequently in coastal zones. Farmers, as a rational agent, inevitably have heterogeneous risk preferences. However...

In order to achieve the dual goals of territorial development optimization and protection, the Major Function Oriented Zone (MFOZ) has implemented differentiated spatial policies, which will lead to significant changes in future land use and ecosystem services. This study takes Nanning, China as the study area, and integrates the CLUMondo model and...

As a policy tool to coordinate land use among regions, the practice of transferable development rights (TDR) is widely used all over the world. However, there are still many problems in the practical application of TDR. Therefore, based on the real estate and land market transaction data of Chongzuo and Liuzhou in 2016, this paper attempts to estab...

Spatial regulation produces different advantages in areas with different land resource endowments. It also affects the welfare of stakeholders in different regions. Existing studies mainly focus on the "visible" welfare "windfalls" and "wipeouts" caused by spatial regulation, yet pay little attention on the "invisible" effects. This article selects...

Background: Urban green open space is a valuable resource for physical activities of urban inhabitants and has the potential to reduce chronic illness and improve health. Research on the relationships between green open space and physical activity is incomplete and limited in China. Thus, the study examines how the urban green open space contribut...

Global warming is one of the issues of great concern in the world. The large-scale use of fossil fuels has led to the continuous increase in carbon emissions, resulting in global energy shortages and environmental pollution. Reasonable and strict environmental regulation promotes technological innovation by enterprises to achieve a win-win situatio...

Land speculation can increase idle or inefficient land use, thus causing a number of problems, which many countries around the world address with reasonable administrative intervention. According to China’s “Disposal Measures for Idle Land”, the land development time is limited to two years. If this time is exceeded, the government will restore the...

The ecological function regions have enormous environmental and social value, and its protection and sustainable development need to sacrifice local economic development and local people’s land development rights and interests. Therefore, it is important to study the willingness to pay for ecological protection in the ecological function region to...