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. (in press). 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.