All Outputs (7)

Satellite-detected gain in built-up area as a leading economic indicator (2019)
Journal Article
Ying, Q., Hansen, M. C., Sun, L., Wang, L., & Steininger, M. (2019). Satellite-detected gain in built-up area as a leading economic indicator. Environmental Research Letters, 14, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab443e

Leading indicators of future economic activity include measures such as new housing starts, managers purchasing index, money supply, and bond yields. Such macroeconomic and financial indicators hold predictive power in signaling recessionary periods.... Read More about Satellite-detected gain in built-up area as a leading economic indicator.

Agro-ecological suitability assessment of Chinese Medicinal Yam under future climate change (2019)
Journal Article
Fan, D., Zhong, H., Hu, B., Tian, Z., Sun, L., Fischer, G., Wang, X., & Jiang, Z. (2019). Agro-ecological suitability assessment of Chinese Medicinal Yam under future climate change. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 42(3), 987-1000. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-019-00437-w

Chinese Medicinal Yam (CMY) has been prescribed as medicinal food for thousand years in China by Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners. Its medical benefits include nourishing the stomach and spleen to improve digestion, replenishing lung... Read More about Agro-ecological suitability assessment of Chinese Medicinal Yam under future climate change.

Synthesized trade-off analysis of flood control solutions under future deep uncertainty: An application to the central business district of Shanghai. (2019)
Journal Article
Hu, H., Tian, Z., Sun, L., Wen, J., Liang, Z., Dong, G., & Liu, J. (2019). Synthesized trade-off analysis of flood control solutions under future deep uncertainty: An application to the central business district of Shanghai. Water Research, 166, Article 115067. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.115067

Coastal mega-cities will face increasing flood risk under the current protection standard because of future climate change. Previous studies seldom evaluate the comparative effectiveness of alternative options in reducing flood risk under the uncerta... Read More about Synthesized trade-off analysis of flood control solutions under future deep uncertainty: An application to the central business district of Shanghai..

Impacts of Urban Expansion on Terrestrial Carbon Storage in China (2019)
Journal Article
Wang, S., Liu, X., Wu, P., Feng, K., Hubacek, K., Li, X., & Sun, L. (2019). Impacts of Urban Expansion on Terrestrial Carbon Storage in China. Environmental Science & Technology, 53(12), 6834-6844. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b00103

Urban expansion is one of the main factors driving terrestrial carbon storage (TCS) changes. Accurate accounting of TCS and rigorous quantification of its changes caused by historical urban expansion may help us to better predict its changes in the f... Read More about Impacts of Urban Expansion on Terrestrial Carbon Storage in China.

An Index-Based Assessment of Perceived Climate Risk and Vulnerability for the Urban Cluster in the Yangtze River Delta Region of China (2019)
Journal Article
Sun, L., Tian, Z., Zou, H., Shao, L., Sun, L., Dong, G., Fan, D., Huang, X., Frost, L., & Fox-James, L. (2019). An Index-Based Assessment of Perceived Climate Risk and Vulnerability for the Urban Cluster in the Yangtze River Delta Region of China. Sustainability, 11(7), https://doi.org/10.3390/su11072099

This paper proposes an index-based assessment tool to consolidate diverse opinions of various stakeholders on their assessments of sector-specific risks posed by climate change, and to aggregate these opinions into intuitive and comparable graphs. Th... Read More about An Index-Based Assessment of Perceived Climate Risk and Vulnerability for the Urban Cluster in the Yangtze River Delta Region of China.

Optimizing regional cropping systems with a dynamic adaptation strategy for water sustainable agriculture in the Hebei Plain (2019)
Journal Article
Zhong, H., Sun, L., Fischer, G., Tian, Z., & Liang, Z. (2019). Optimizing regional cropping systems with a dynamic adaptation strategy for water sustainable agriculture in the Hebei Plain. Agricultural Systems, 173, 94-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2019.02.005

Unsustainable overexploitation of groundwater for agricultural irrigation has led to rapid groundwater depletion and severe environmental damage in the semi-arid Hebei Plain of China. Field experiments have recommended annual winter fallowing (i.e.,... Read More about Optimizing regional cropping systems with a dynamic adaptation strategy for water sustainable agriculture in the Hebei Plain.

Explaining virtual water trade: A spatial-temporal analysis of the comparative advantage of land, labor and water in China (2019)
Journal Article
Zhao, D., Hubacek, K., Feng, K., Sun, L., & Liu, J. (2019). Explaining virtual water trade: A spatial-temporal analysis of the comparative advantage of land, labor and water in China. Water Research, 153, 304-314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.01.025

The well-known “virtual water hypothesis” states that water-deficient regions/countries could alleviate water stress through importing water-intensive products from water-abundant regions/countries. Although observed trading patterns do often not sup... Read More about Explaining virtual water trade: A spatial-temporal analysis of the comparative advantage of land, labor and water in China.