Research Toward sustainable climate change adaptation Industrial ecology (IE) has made great contributions to climate change mitigation research, in terms of its systems thinking and solid methodologies such as life cycle assessment, material flow analysis, and environmentally extended input–output analysis.
Research A review of methods and data to determine raw material criticality The assessment of the criticality of raw materials allows the identification of the likelihood of a supply disruption of a material and the vulnerability of a system (e.g. a national economy, technology, or company) to this disruption.
Project Exploring Material Energy Nexus and Criticality Mitigation Strategies: A Case Study on Power Batteries Youth Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China 2020.01-2022.12
Project Promoting Resource Efficiencies of Metals:Mapping,Measurement, and Management International Cooperation and Exchanges NSFC 2020.01-2024.12
Research Material-energy-water nexus: Modelling the long term implications of aluminium demand and supply on global climate change up to 2050 Aluminium is a widely used metal and one of the most energy intensive industries, and therefore it has been included in most energy models and scenarios.
Research Structure of the global plastic waste trade network and the impact of China’s import Ban Millions of tonnes (teragrams) of plastic waste are traded around the world every year, which plays an important role in partially substituting virgin plastics as a source of raw materials in plastic product manufacturing.
Research Incorporating critical material cycles into metal-energy nexus of China’s 2050 renewable transition Renewables rely heavily on critical materials. Such material (metal)-energy nexus thinking is critical to guarantee global renewable transition.
news The 3rd Forum of Excellent Chinese Young Scholars in Environmental Geography was successfully held in IUE The 3rd Forum of Excellent Chinese Young Scholar in Environmental Geography (FECYSEG), with the theme of “Environmental Geography and Beautiful China”, was successfully held during October 25-27, 2019 in the Institute of Urban Environment (IUE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
news Wei-Qiang Chen attended the China-US Urban Sustainability Workshop An expert committee under the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Science and Technology for Sustainability (STS) program, in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, organized a one-day public workshop on urban sustainability in China and the United States.
news Our group jointly hosted the first annual seminar of EEP Committee of Chinese Society of Rare Earths in Baotou This seminar is jointly hosted with research group from China University of Geoscience (Beijing) and from Inner Mongolia University of Science & Technology, and Chinese Society of Rare Earths.
