Publications
Research highlights
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This study uses an integrated assessment model with a land cover downscaling module to project crop-specific N2O emissions at 0.05° resolution under various SSP-RCP scenarios from 2025 to 2100. Results show a global N2O emission peak around 2065, ranging from 5.2 to 6.6 Tg N a–1. Corn cultivation is the main contributor, while rice emits less and peaks before 2025.
Zhang, T., Wu, X.✽, Li, C., Chen, C.
Environmental Science & Technology, 58, Article number 52 (2024)
This study examines how day-to-day temperature variability and shifts in rainfall patterns impacted global agricultural productivity from 1961 to 2018. Results show that day-to-day temperature variability both negatively affects total factor productivity (TFP) and shapes the influence of monthly average temperatures and wet days.
Zou, Z., Li, C., Wu, X.✽, Meng, Z., Chen, C.✽
Environmental Research Letters, 19, Article number 12 (2024)
This study aims to produce a gridded dataset of global LULC at 1 km × 1 km resolution under typical SSP-RCP scenarios from 2020 to 2100 by combining GCAM and the Patch-generating Land Use Simulation (PLUS) model.
Zhang, T., Cheng, C.✽, Wu, X.✽
Scientific Data, 10, Article number 748 (2023)
This study seeks to further explore the renewable and carbon-neutral characters of solar power under a systems view by studying a pilot solar tower plant in China.
Wu, X., Li, C., Shao, L., Meng, J., Zhang, L.✽, Chen, G.✽
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 138, March 2021, 110655
This study develops a new embodiment accounting model by including the indirect feedbacks associated with both intermediate and primary inputs, and explores global arable land use in a source-to-sink manner.
Wu, X., Guo, J., Han, M., Chen, G.✽
Land Use Policy, Volume 76, July 2018, Pages 201-214
This study seeks to reflect a key aspect of global socio-hydrology by exploring the circulation of virtual water within the global economic network from source of exploitation to sink of final consumption.
Wu, X., Guo, J., Li, C., Shao, L., Han, M., Chen, G.✽
Journal of Hydrology, Volume 573, June 2019, Pages 794-810
List of publications
(# indicates equal contribution, and ✽ indicates the corresponding author.)
2024
Crop-Specific Emission Projection Suggests Peaking of Agricultural N2O by the Middle Century
Zhang, T., Wu, X.✽, Li, C., Chen, C.
The effect of day-to-day temperature variability on agricultural productivity
Zou, Z., Li, C., Wu, X.✽, Meng, Z., Chen, C.✽
Mapping spatially-explicit cropland-related soil erosion in China from 1980 to 2018 at a 30 m resolution
Xie, Y.#, Zhang, T.#, Zhang, Z., Wu, X.✽
2023
Mapping the spatial heterogeneity of global land use and land cover from 2020 to 2100 at a 1 km resolution
Zhang, T., Cheng, C.✽, Wu, X.✽
Mapping the heterogeneity of global methane footprint in China at the subnational level
Guo, M., Cheng, C.✽, Wu, X.✽
Impacts of production structure changes on global CH4 emissions: Evidences from income-based accounting and decomposition analysis
Cheng, X.#, Wu, X.#, Guan, C., Sun, X., Zhang, B.✽
Evaluating temporal-spatial variations of wetland ecosystem service value in China during 1990–2020 from the donor side based on cosmic exergy
Xu, Y.#, Xie, Y.#,Wu, X.✽, Xie, Y., Zhang, T., Zou, Z., Zhang, R., Zhang, Z.✽
Mutual complementarity of arable land use in the Sino-Africa trade: Evidence from the global supply chain
Ji, X.✽, Su, P., Liu, Y., Wu, G., Wu, X.
2022
Global pastureland use as reflected in inter-regional supply chain
Li, C.#, Wu, X.#, Chen, K., Chen, G.✽
Water cost for water purification: Renewability assessment of a typical wastewater treatment plant in China
Xie, Y.#, Zeng, L.#, Wang, P.✽, Wu, X.✽, Feng, T.
Global temporal evolution of CH4 emissions via geo-economic integration
Wang, X.#, Tian, W.#, Guan, C., Wu, X.✽, Sun, X., Zhang, B.✽
An improved extended exergy accounting method for assessing the sustainability of the Chinese society
Meng, Z., Jin, P., Wu, X., Zhang, B.✽, Guo J
2021
Is solar power renewable and carbon-neutral: Evidence from a pilot solar tower plant in China under a systems view
Wu, X., Li, C., Shao, L., Meng, J., Zhang, L.✽, Chen, G.✽
Energy use flows in the supply chains of the world economy: A full account of both primary and intermediate inputs
Wu, X.#,✽, Guo, J.#, Chen, G.✽, Wu, X.F., Meng, J., Alhodaly, M., Wakeel, M.
Pastureland use of China: Accounting variations from different input-output analyses
Li, C.#, Wu, X.#, Chen, G.✽, Han, M., Chen, K., Yangzong, C., Lo, D., Alsaedi, A., Hayat, T.
Multi criteria analysis ranking of solar photovoltaic modules manufacturing countries by an importing country: A case of Uganda
Mukisa, N.✽, Zamora, R., Tek, L., Wu, X., Chen, G
Extended carbon footprint and emission transfer of world regions: With both primary and intermediate inputs into account
Wu, X.#,✽, Li, C.#, Guo, J., Wu, X.F., Meng, J., Chen, G.✽
Can constructed wetlands be more land efficient than centralized wastewater treatment systems? A case study based on direct and indirect land use
Fan, Y.#, Wu, X.#, Shao, L., Han, M., Chen, B., Meng, J., Wang, P.✽, Chen, G.✽
Unveiling land footprint of solar power: A pilot solar tower project in China
Wu, X.✽, Shao, L., Chen, G.✽, Han, M., Chi, Y., Yang, Q., Alhodaly, M., Wakeel, M.
2020
Global supply chain of biomass use and the shift of environmental welfare from primary exploiters to final consumers
Ji, X.✽, Liu, Y., Meng, J., Wu, X.✽
A unified ecological assessment of a solar concentrating plant based on an integrated approach joining cosmic exergy analysis with ecological indicators
Fan, Y.#, Wu, X.#, Wu, X.F., Li, C., Yang, Q., Hayat, T., Alsaedi, A., Wang, P.✽, Chen, G.✽
Carbon emissions embodied in the global supply chain: Intermediate and final trade imbalances
Wu, X., Guo, J., Li, C., Chen, G.✽, Ji, X.✽
2019
Global socio-hydrology: An overview of virtual water use by the world economy from source of exploitation to sink of final consumption
Wu, X., Guo, J., Li, C., Shao, L., Han, M., Chen, G.✽
Energy use in world economy from household-consumption-based perspective
Wu, X., Guo, J., Ji, X., Chen, G.✽
Quantifying global CH4 and N2O footprints
Tian, W., Wu, X., Zhao, X., Ma, R., Zhang, B.✽
Global overview for energy use of the world economy: Household-consumption-based accounting based on the world input-output database (WIOD)
Chen, G.#,✽, Wu, X.✽, Guo, J., Meng, J., Li, C
Energy use by globalized economy: Total-consumption-based perspective via multi-region input-output accounting
Wu, X., Guo, J., Meng, J., Chen, G.✽
Water footprint of thermal power in China: Implications from the high amount of industrial water use by plant infrastructure of coal-fired generation system
Wu, X., Ji, X., Li, C., Xia, X., Chen, G.✽
Freshwater costs of seawater desalination: Systems process analysis for the case plant in China
Liu, S., Zhang, G., Han, M.✽, Wu, X., Li, Y., Chen, K., Meng, J., Shao, L., Wei, W., Chen, G.✽
2018
An overview of arable land use for the world economy: From source to sink via the global supply chain
Wu, X.#, Guo, J.#, Han, M., Chen, G.✽
The striking amount of carbon emissions by the construction stage of coal-fired power generation system in China
Wu, X., Guo, J., Chen, G.✽
Contaminant transport from point source on water surface in open channel flow with bed absorption
Guo, J., Wu, X., Jiang, W.✽, Chen, G.✽
Ultra-high voltage network induced energy cost and carbon emissions
Wei, W.#, Wu, X.#, Li, J.✽, Jiang, X., Zhang, P., Zhou, S., Zhu, H., Liu, H., Chen, H., Guo, J., Chen, G.✽
2017
Energy and water nexus in power generation: The surprisingly high amount of industrial water use induced by solar power infrastructure in China
Wu, X., Chen, G.✽
Coal use for world economy: Provision and transfer network by multi-region input-output analysis
Xia, X.✽, Chen, B., Wu, X., Hu, Y., Liu, D., Hu, C
A three-scale input-output analysis of water use in a regional economy: Hebei province in China
Liu, S.#, Wu, X.#, Han, M.✽, Zhang, J., Chen, B., Wu, X.F., Wei, W., Li, Z✽
2016
Progress and prospect of CCS in China: Using learning curve to assess the cost-viability of a 2×600MW retrofitted oxyfuel power plant as a case study
Wu, X.#, Yang, Q.#, Chen, G.✽, Hayat, T., Alsaedi, A
Embodied energy analysis for coal-based power generation system-highlighting the role of indirect energy cost
Wu, X.#, Xia, X.#, Chen, G.✽, Wu, X.F., Chen, B
Virtual water accounting for a building construction engineering project with nine sub-projects: a case in E-town, Beijing
Han, M., Chen, G.✽, Meng, J., Wu, X., Alsaedi, A., Ahmad, B
Critical Length of Contaminant Cloud in a Three-Layer Wetland: Multi-scale Analysis for Environmental Dispersivity
Li, Z.✽, Wang, P.✽, Sun, T., An, Y., Wu, X.
2015 and Before
Renewability and sustainability of biogas system: Cosmic exergy based assessment for a case in China
Wu, X.F., Chen, G.✽, Wu, X., Yang, Q., Alsaedi, A., Hayat, T., Ahmad, B.
Taylor dispersion in a packed pipe with wall reaction: Based on the method of Gill’s series solution
Wang, P., Li, Z.✽, Wu, X., An, Y.
Analysis of rural household energy consumption and renewable energy systems in Zhangziying town of Beijing
Li, X.#, Lin, C.#,✽, Wang, Y., Zhao, L., Duan, N., Wu, X.
Vertical specialization, global trade and energy consumption for an urban economy: A value added export perspective for Beijing
Xia, X.✽, Hu, Y., Chen, G., Alsaedi, A., Hayat, T., Wu, X.
Structure decomposition analysis for energy-related GHG emission in Beijing: Urban metabolism and hierarchical structure
Xia, X.✽, Hu, Y.✽, Alsaedi, A., Hayat, T., Wu, X., Chen, G.
Sustainability of a typical biogas system in China: Emergy-based ecological footprint assessment
Wu, X.F., Yang, Q.✽, Xia, X., Wu, T., Wu, X., Shao, L., Hayat, T., Alsaedi, A., Chen, G.✽
Ecological accounting for an integrated “pig–biogas–fish” system based on emergetic indicators
Wu, X.F.#, Wu, X.#, Li, J.#, Xia, X., Mi, T., Yang, Q., Chen, G.✽, Chen, B., Hayat, T., Alsaedi, A.
Bibliometric indicators for sustainable hydropower development
Han, M.#, Sui, X.#, Huang, Z.✽, Wu, X., Xia, X., Hayat, T., Alsaedi, A.