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Hancheng Dai

Hancheng Dai

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
54
Citations
10235
World Ranking
4059
National Ranking
429

Overview

Hancheng Dai is affiliated with Peking University in China and has an extensive research background primarily in environmental science. Their scientific contributions focus on several interrelated topics including environmental impact and sustainability, air quality and health impacts, and climate change and health impacts.

Their work spans multiple subfields such as health, toxicology and mutagenesis, environmental engineering, economics and econometrics, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, and electrical and electronic engineering. This multidisciplinary scope aligns with the complex nature of environmental challenges and policy implications addressed in their research.

Hancheng Dai frequently collaborates with scholars such as Yang Xie, Cunrui Huang, Shaohui Zhang, Xiaorui Liu, and Qiyong Liu. These collaborations have resulted in a significant number of publications, reflecting sustained research partnerships.

Their research is regularly published in a range of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include Environmental Research Letters, Applied Energy, The Lancet Public Health, Resources Conservation and Recycling, and the Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version). These journals reflect a strong focus on environmental and public health issues within an applied science context.

Notable recent publications by Hancheng Dai include:

  • A review of trends and drivers of greenhouse gas emissions by sector from 1990 to 2018 (2021, Environmental Research Letters)
  • Decarbonizing China's iron and steel industry from the supply and demand sides for carbon neutrality (2021, Applied Energy)
  • The 2020 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change (2020, The Lancet Public Health)
  • The general equilibrium impacts of carbon tax policy in China: A multi-model comparison (2021, Energy Economics)
  • A review of spatial resolution and regionalisation in national-scale energy systems optimisation models (2021, Energy Strategy Reviews)

The main topics covered in their research are:

  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure

With a wealth of publications spread across these themes, Hancheng Dai contributes academically to the understanding of both environmental systems and the socio-economic factors influencing sustainable development and climate policies, especially in the context of China.

Best Publications

  • A review of trends and drivers of greenhouse gas emissions by sector from 1990 to 2018

    William F. Lamb;Thomas Wiedmann;Julia Pongratz;Robbie Andrew

  • SSP3: AIM implementation of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

    Shinichiro Fujimori;Tomoko Hasegawa;Toshihiko Masui;Kiyoshi Takahashi

  • Global, regional, and national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health: all-cause and cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.

    Katherine R Paulson;Aruna M Kamath;Tahiya Alam;Kelly Bienhoff

  • Green growth: The economic impacts of large-scale renewable energy development in China

    Hancheng Dai;Xuxuan Xie;Yang Xie;Jian Liu

  • Economic Impacts from PM2.5 Pollution-Related Health Effects in China: A Provincial-Level Analysis.

    Yang Xie;Hancheng Dai;Huijuan Dong;Tatsuya Hanaoka

  • Comparison of health and economic impacts of PM2.5 and ozone pollution in China.

    Yang Xie;Hancheng Dai;Yanxu Zhang;Yazhen Wu

  • Pursuing air pollutant co-benefits of CO2 mitigation in China: A provincial leveled analysis

    Huijuan Dong;Hancheng Dai;Liang Dong;Tsuyoshi Fujita

  • Achieving Copenhagen target through carbon emission trading: Economic impacts assessment in Guangdong Province of China

    Peng Wang;Han-cheng Dai;Song-yan Ren;Dai-qing Zhao

  • Decarbonizing China’s iron and steel industry from the supply and demand sides for carbon neutrality

    Ming Ren;Pantao Lu;Xiaorui Liu;M.S. Hossain

  • The 2020 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change.

    Wenjia Cai;Chi Zhang;Hoi Ping Suen;Siqi Ai

  • The impacts of China’s household consumption expenditure patterns on energy demand and carbon emissions towards 2050

    Hancheng Dai;Toshihiko Masui;Yuzuru Matsuoka;Shinichiro Fujimori

  • Exploring impact of carbon tax on China’s CO2 reductions and provincial disparities

    Huijuan Dong;Hancheng Dai;Yong Geng;Tsuyoshi Fujita

  • Assessment of China's climate commitment and non-fossil energy plan towards 2020 using hybrid AIM/CGE model

    Hancheng Dai;Toshihiko Masui;Toshihiko Masui;Yuzuru Matsuoka;Shinichiro Fujimori

  • Impacts of low-carbon power policy on carbon mitigation in Guangdong Province, China

    Beibei Cheng;Beibei Cheng;Hancheng Dai;Peng Wang;Yang Xie

  • The general equilibrium impacts of carbon tax policy in China: A multi-model comparison

    Jing Cao;Hancheng Dai;Shantong Li;Chaoyi Guo

  • Impacts of carbon trading scheme on air pollutant emissions in Guangdong Province of China

    Beibei Cheng;Beibei Cheng;Hancheng Dai;Peng Wang;Daiqing Zhao

  • Achieving China’s INDC through carbon cap-and-trade: Insights from Shanghai

    Rui Wu;Hancheng Dai;Yong Geng;Yang Xie;Yang Xie

  • Economic Impacts from PM2.5 Pollution-Related Health Effects: A Case Study in Shanghai

    Rui Wu;Rui Wu;Hancheng Dai;Yong Geng;Yang Xie

  • Co-benefits of climate mitigation on air quality and human health in Asian countries.

    Yang Xie;Hancheng Dai;Xinghan Xu;Shinichiro Fujimori

  • U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement: Reasons, impacts, and China's response

    Hai-Bin Zhang;Han-Cheng Dai;Hua-Xia Lai;Wen-Tao Wang

  • Distribution of sorbed phenanthrene and pyrene in different humic fractions of soils and importance of humin.

    B. Pan;B.S. Xing;W.X. Liu;S. Tao

  • The effectiveness of energy service demand reduction: A scenario analysis of global climate change mitigation

    Shinichiro Fujimori;Mikiko Kainuma;Toshihiko Masui;Tomoko Hasegawa

  • Aligning renewable energy targets with carbon emissions trading to achieve China's INDCs: A general equilibrium assessment

    Hancheng Dai;Yang Xie;Jingyu Liu;Toshihiko Masui

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshihiko Masui
Toshihiko Masui National Institute for Environmental Studies
Shinichiro Fujimori
Shinichiro Fujimori Kyoto University
Yong Geng
Yong Geng Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Tomoko Hasegawa
Tomoko Hasegawa Ritsumeikan University
Bo Pan
Bo Pan Kunming University of Science and Technology
Tsuyoshi Fujita
Tsuyoshi Fujita University of Tokyo
Shu Tao
Shu Tao Peking University
Kiyoshi Takahashi
Kiyoshi Takahashi National Institute for Environmental Studies
Huijuan Dong
Huijuan Dong Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Baoshan Xing
Baoshan Xing University of Massachusetts Amherst

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