Wei Xie

Fudan University · Department of Environmental Science and Engineering

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...

Land is an essential resource tomaintain the functioning of the socio‐economic system. Due to sectoral land data limitations, previous studies were primarily restricted to a coarse sectoral level or focused mainly on the global and national scales. However,fine‐scale land use data are required to provide tailored implications for municipal sustaina...

Land is the foundation of human survival and well-being. It is important to investigate the land uses of economic sectors and recognize critical supply chain activities influencing land uses. However, the full-sector land uses and relevant multiregional supply chain activities have not been well characterized. This study constructs a new accounting...

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...

Land is an essential factor for economic and industrial production. Urban land area has been consistently increased all over the world since 1840s as a notable feature of industrial and economic evolution. Urban land expansion not only causes direct environmental consequences such as deforestation, biodiversity loss, and pollution, but also act as...

Ecosystem services (ES) play a vital role in sustaining human society's operations. Integrated ES assessment is the foundation for effective ES management. Most previous studies focused on the supply side of ES with fewer concerns on ES demand. Taking the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) as an example, this study analyzed the dynamics of ES from both supp...

Contexts The influence of landscape patterns on urban thermal environment has received remarkable attention with the rapid urbanization process worldwide. Although numerous studies have revealed the relationship between landscape patterns and the urban thermal environment, there is limited effort to quantify the contributions of landscape patterns...

Whilst present international CO2 mitigation agreements account for the impact of population composition and structure on emissions, the impact of international migration is overlooked. This study quantifies the CO2 footprint of international immigrants and reveals their non-negligible impacts on global CO2 emissions. Results show that the CO2 footp...

Sustainable development emphasizes the sustainability of natural resources and the environment as well as the development of social welfare. Under the background of resource scarcity and environmental constraints, maximizing social welfare is an inevitable choice to achieve sustainable development. Ecological Wellbeing Performance (EWP) can compreh...

Cooling energy consumption in urban areas is affected significantly by the dynamics of urban heat flux. However, we still lack a clear understanding of the quantitative contribution rate and underlying mechanism of typical urban landscapes to urban heat dynamics, especially in seasonal and diurnal patterns. Here we used a thermal infrared camera an...

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) is an effective policy in conserving ecosystem services and is increasingly applied globally. The concept of PES was firstly defined in 2005, researches with various terminologies, concepts, and practices emerged since then. This paper analyzed the research patterns of PES studies through bibliometric methods,...

The effect of landscape configuration on urban temperatures is always an important issue in landscape planning and mitigation of urban heat islands. However, landscape indices used in previous studies did not focus on thermal processes. We proposed a landscape source-sink distance (LSSD) index used to quantify the landscape connectivity and investi...