All Outputs (107)

Keeping the global consumption within the planetary boundaries (2024)
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Tian, P., Zhong, H., Chen, X., Feng, K., Sun, L., Zhang, N., Shao, X., Liu, Y., & Hubacek, K. (2024). Keeping the global consumption within the planetary boundaries. Nature, 635(8039), 625-630. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08154-w

The disparity in environmental impacts across different countries has been widely acknowledged1, 2. However, ascertaining the specific responsibility within the complex interactions of economies and consumption groups remains a challenging endeavour3... Read More about Keeping the global consumption within the planetary boundaries.

Climate Change and Corporate Vulnerability: Impact of Natural Disasters on JVs and WOSs (2024)
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Zou, H., Sun, L., & Zeng, Z. (2024). Climate Change and Corporate Vulnerability: Impact of Natural Disasters on JVs and WOSs. Proceedings - Academy of Management, 2024(1), 16926. https://doi.org/10.5465/amproc.2024.16926abstract

Increasing natural disasters pose significant challenges to multinational enterprises, given the complex, disruptive and long-lasting impact induced by climate change. This study adopts a multidisciplinary approach, amalgamating climatological insigh... Read More about Climate Change and Corporate Vulnerability: Impact of Natural Disasters on JVs and WOSs.

The Socio-Environmental Determinants of Childhood Malnutrition: A Spatial and Hierarchical Analysis (2024)
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Sandler, A., & Sun, L. (2024). The Socio-Environmental Determinants of Childhood Malnutrition: A Spatial and Hierarchical Analysis. Nutrients, 16(13), Article 2014. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16132014

Despite a remarkable reduction in global poverty and famines, substantial childhood malnutrition continues to persist. In 2017, over 50 million and 150 million young children suffered from acute malnutrition (wasting) and chronic malnutrition (stunti... Read More about The Socio-Environmental Determinants of Childhood Malnutrition: A Spatial and Hierarchical Analysis.

Transit-oriented development and effective supply on the tenant-occupied multifamily housing market in Washington, DC (2024)
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Funes, J., Sauer, J., & Sun, L. (2025). Transit-oriented development and effective supply on the tenant-occupied multifamily housing market in Washington, DC. Spatial Economic Analysis, 20(2), 291-311. https://doi.org/10.1080/17421772.2024.2346663

A range of socioeconomic factors, including income distribution, productivity and land use policies, are thought to influence the development of contemporary multifamily housing markets in the United States. Focusing on Washington, DC, as a case stud... Read More about Transit-oriented development and effective supply on the tenant-occupied multifamily housing market in Washington, DC.

Water consumption and biodiversity: Responses to global emergency events. (2024)
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Zhao, D., Liu, J., Sun, L., Hubacek, K., Pfister, S., Feng, K., Zheng, H., Peng, X., Wang, D., Yang, H., Shen, L., Lun, F., Zhao, X., Chen, B., Keskinen, M., Zhang, S., Cai, J., & Varis, O. (2024). Water consumption and biodiversity: Responses to global emergency events. Science Bulletin, 69(16), 2632-2646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2024.03.049

Given that it was a once-in-a-century emergency event, the confinement measures related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused diverse disruptions and changes in life and work patterns. These changes significantly affected water c... Read More about Water consumption and biodiversity: Responses to global emergency events..

Higher total energy costs strain the elderly, especially low-income, across 31 developed countries. (2024)
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Tian, P., Feng, K., Sun, L., Hubacek, K., Malerba, D., Zhong, H., Zheng, H., Li, D., Zhang, N., & Li, J. (2024). Higher total energy costs strain the elderly, especially low-income, across 31 developed countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(12), Article e2306771121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2306771121

Addressing the total energy cost burden of elderly people is essential for designing equitable and effective energy policies, especially in responding to energy crisis in an aging society. It is due to the double impact of energy price hikes on house... Read More about Higher total energy costs strain the elderly, especially low-income, across 31 developed countries..

Does interstate trade of agricultural products in the U.S. alleviate land and water stress? (2024)
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Liu, B., Feng, K., Sun, L., & Baiocchi, G. (2024). Does interstate trade of agricultural products in the U.S. alleviate land and water stress?. Journal of Environmental Management, 354, Article 120427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120427

Interregional free-trade of agricultural products is expected to transfer embodied (virtual) water from more to less water-productive regions. However, irrigation in semi-arid to arid regions may significantly push up agricultural productivity but ca... Read More about Does interstate trade of agricultural products in the U.S. alleviate land and water stress?.

Tropical Cyclone Changes in Convection‐Permitting Regional Climate Projections: A Study Over the Shanghai Region (2024)
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Buonomo, E., Savage, N., Dong, G., Becker, B., Jones, R. G., Tian, Z., & Sun, L. (2024). Tropical Cyclone Changes in Convection‐Permitting Regional Climate Projections: A Study Over the Shanghai Region. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129(5), Article e2023JD038508. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023jd038508

Changes in tropical cyclones due to greenhouse‐gas forcing in the Shanghai area have been studied in a double‐nesting regional model experiment using the Met Office convection‐permitting model HadREM3‐RA1T at 4 km resolution and the regional model Ha... Read More about Tropical Cyclone Changes in Convection‐Permitting Regional Climate Projections: A Study Over the Shanghai Region.

Satellite forecasting of crop harvest can trigger a cross-hemispheric production response and improve global food security (2023)
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Tanaka, T., Sun, L., Becker-Reshef, I., Song, X.-P., & Puricelli, E. (2023). Satellite forecasting of crop harvest can trigger a cross-hemispheric production response and improve global food security. Communications Earth & Environment, 4(1), 334. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00992-2

Global food security is increasingly threatened by climate change and regional human conflicts. Abnormal fluctuations in crop production in major exporting countries can cause volatility in food prices and household consumption in importing countries... Read More about Satellite forecasting of crop harvest can trigger a cross-hemispheric production response and improve global food security.

Implementation of carbon pricing in an aging world calls for targeted protection schemes (2023)
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Tian, P., Feng, K., Zheng, H., Hubacek, K., Li, J., Zhong, H., Chen, X., & Sun, L. (2023). Implementation of carbon pricing in an aging world calls for targeted protection schemes. PNAS Nexus, 2(7), Article pgad209. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad209

Understanding the impact of climate fiscal policies on vulnerable groups is a prerequisite for equitable climate mitigation. However, there has been a lack of attention to the impacts of such policies on the elderly, especially the low-income elderly... Read More about Implementation of carbon pricing in an aging world calls for targeted protection schemes.

Land‐cover and land‐use change trajectory hopping facilitates estate‐crop expansion into protected forests in Indonesia (2023)
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Xin, Y., Sun, L., & Hansen, M. C. (2023). Land‐cover and land‐use change trajectory hopping facilitates estate‐crop expansion into protected forests in Indonesia. Conservation Letters, 16(4), Article e12957. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12957

Protected areas (PAs) have been regarded as a critical strategy to protect natural forest (NF) and biodiversity. Estate‐crop expansion is an important driver of deforestation in Indonesia. Yet, little is known regarding the temporal dynamics of PA ef... Read More about Land‐cover and land‐use change trajectory hopping facilitates estate‐crop expansion into protected forests in Indonesia.

Increase in grain production potential of China under climate change (2023)
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Liang, Z., Sun, L., Tian, Z., Fischer, G., & Yan, H. (2023). Increase in grain production potential of China under climate change. PNAS Nexus, 2(3), Article pgad057. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad057

The rapid growth of China’s demand for grains is expected to continue in the coming decades, largely as a result of the increasing feed demand to produce protein-rich food. This leads to a great concern on future supply potentials of Chinese agricult... Read More about Increase in grain production potential of China under climate change.

China’s electric vehicle and climate ambitions jeopardized by surging critical material prices (2023)
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Wang, H., Feng, K., Wang, P., Yang, Y., Sun, L., Yang, F., Chen, W.-Q., Zhang, Y., & Li, J. (2023). China’s electric vehicle and climate ambitions jeopardized by surging critical material prices. Nature Communications, 14(1), 1246. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36957-4

The adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) on a large scale is crucial for meeting the desired climate commitments, where affordability plays a vital role. However, the expected surge in prices of lithium, cobalt, nickel, and manganese, four critical ma... Read More about China’s electric vehicle and climate ambitions jeopardized by surging critical material prices.

Dynamic adaptive engineering pathways for mitigating flood risks in Shanghai with regret theory (2023)
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Tian, Z., Ramsbottom, D., Sun, L., Huang, Y., Zou, H., & Liu, J. (2023). Dynamic adaptive engineering pathways for mitigating flood risks in Shanghai with regret theory. nature water, 1(2), 198-208. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-022-00017-w

Uncertainty in sea level rise and future extreme climate events presents a great planning challenge for flood defence in coastal mega cities like Shanghai. While academic literature has largely focused on uncertainty analysis, engineering solution de... Read More about Dynamic adaptive engineering pathways for mitigating flood risks in Shanghai with regret theory.

Multiscale Analysis of the Relationship between Toxic Chemical Hazard Risks and Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Groups in Texas, USA (2023)
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Hu, G., Feng, K., & Sun, L. (2023). Multiscale Analysis of the Relationship between Toxic Chemical Hazard Risks and Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Groups in Texas, USA. Environmental Science & Technology, 57(5), 2019-2030. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c04302

Although quantitative environmental (in)justice research demonstrates a disproportionate burden of toxic chemical hazard risks among racial/ethnic minorities and people in low socioeconomic positions, limited knowledge exists on how racial/ethnic and... Read More about Multiscale Analysis of the Relationship between Toxic Chemical Hazard Risks and Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Groups in Texas, USA.

Tracing toxic chemical releases embodied in U.S. interstate trade and their unequal distribution. (2022)
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Hu, G., Feng, K., Sun, L., & Baiocchi, G. (2022). Tracing toxic chemical releases embodied in U.S. interstate trade and their unequal distribution. Environment International, 171, Article 107681. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2022.107681

Toxic chemicals have severe impacts on ecosystem, climate change and human health, and the current toxic releases are inequitably distributed across regions. Investigating the toxic release embodied in final demand by states and income groups can rev... Read More about Tracing toxic chemical releases embodied in U.S. interstate trade and their unequal distribution..

Oil palm reconciliation in Indonesia: Balancing rising demand and environmental conservation towards 2050 (2022)
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Xin, Y., Sun, L., & Hansen, M. C. (2022). Oil palm reconciliation in Indonesia: Balancing rising demand and environmental conservation towards 2050. Journal of Cleaner Production, 380, Article 135087. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.135087

Oil palm plantation has expanded rapidly in Indonesia, driven by the enormous increase in the global demand for oil palm products. While the production and exporting of oil palm products have stimulated economic growth and improved living standards o... Read More about Oil palm reconciliation in Indonesia: Balancing rising demand and environmental conservation towards 2050.

Social interaction and geographic diffusion of iron‐biofortified beans in Rwanda (2022)
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Funes, J., Sun, L., Sedano, F., Baiocchi, G., & Benson, T. (2022). Social interaction and geographic diffusion of iron‐biofortified beans in Rwanda. Agricultural Economics: the journal of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, 53(4), 503-528. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12722

Abstract: This study analyzes smallholder farmers’ decisions to adopt beans with higher levels of dietary iron developed through a conventional breeding technique called biofortification. We approach this study by applying spatial econometric techniq... Read More about Social interaction and geographic diffusion of iron‐biofortified beans in Rwanda.

Environmental implications of economic transformation in China's Pearl River Delta region: Dynamics at four nested geographical scales over 1987–2017 (2021)
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Zhao, D., Feng, K., Sun, L., Baiocchi, G., & Liu, H. (2022). Environmental implications of economic transformation in China's Pearl River Delta region: Dynamics at four nested geographical scales over 1987–2017. Science of the Total Environment, 816, Article 151631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151631

Environmental pollution in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region is largely driven by socioeconomic forces outside the region as vast majority of manufacturing products produced in the region are destined to national and international markets. Given the... Read More about Environmental implications of economic transformation in China's Pearl River Delta region: Dynamics at four nested geographical scales over 1987–2017.

Biophysical and socioeconomic drivers of oil palm expansion in Indonesia (2021)
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Xin, Y., Sun, L., & Hansen, M. C. (2021). Biophysical and socioeconomic drivers of oil palm expansion in Indonesia. Environmental Research Letters, 16, Article 034048. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abce83

Indonesia has been the largest supplier of palm oil since 2007 and now makes around 56% of the global market. While the existing literature paid major attention to the diverse impacts of oil palm plantation on socioeconomic factors and the environmen... Read More about Biophysical and socioeconomic drivers of oil palm expansion in Indonesia.