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Overview

Laixiang Sun is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science with a focus on several subfields including Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Water Science and Technology.

Their body of work addresses key topics such as Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies, Water Resources Management and Optimization, Climate Variability and Models, and Agricultural Innovations and Practices.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Kuishuang Feng, Zhan Tian, Klaus Hubacek, Giovanni Baiocchi, and Dandan Zhao.

The scientist has contributed multiple papers to established venues, often publishing in the SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Environmental Management, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Environmental Research Letters, and Nature.

Selected recent publications include:

  • A review of trends and drivers of greenhouse gas emissions by sector from 1990 to 2018, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • China's electric vehicle and climate ambitions jeopardized by surging critical material prices, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Rising agricultural water scarcity in China is driven by expansion of irrigated cropland in water scarce regions, 2022, One Earth
  • Quantifying economic-social-environmental trade-offs and synergies of water-supply constraints: An application to the capital region of China, 2021, Water Research
  • Household carbon and energy inequality in Latin American and Caribbean countries, 2020, Journal of Environmental Management

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

  • Outsourcing CO2 within China

    Kuishuang Feng;Steven J. Davis;Laixiang Sun;Laixiang Sun;Xin Li

  • Drivers of the US CO2 emissions 1997-2013.

    Kuishuang Feng;Steven J. Davis;Steven J. Davis;Laixiang Sun;Laixiang Sun;Laixiang Sun;Klaus Hubacek

  • Virtual Scarce Water in China

    Kuishuang Feng;Klaus Hubacek;Stephan Pfister;Yang Yu

  • The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in East Asia: A tele-connected value chain analysis using inter-regional input-output analysis

    David J. White;Klaus Hubacek;Klaus Hubacek;Kuishuang Feng;Laixiang Sun;Laixiang Sun;Laixiang Sun

  • Dynamics of Internationalization and Outward Investment: Chinese Corporations' Strategies

    Eunsuk Hong;Laixiang Sun

  • Consumption-based CO2 accounting of China's megacities: the case of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing

    Kuishuang Feng;Klaus Hubacek;Laixiang Sun;Laixiang Sun;Laixiang Sun;Zhu Liu

  • Model based analysis of future land-use development in China

    Günther Fischer;Laixiang Sun

  • Global carbon inequality

    Klaus Hubacek;Klaus Hubacek;Giovanni Baiocchi;Kuishuang Feng;Raúl Muñoz Castillo;Raúl Muñoz Castillo

  • Drivers of cropland abandonment in mountainous areas: A household decision model on farming scale in Southwest China

    Jianzhong Yan;Ziyan Yang;Zanhong Li;Xiubin Li

  • A Scenario Analysis of China's Land Use and Land Cover Change: Incorporating Biophysical Information into Input-Output Modeling

    Klaus Hubacek;Laixiang Sun

  • An Estimation of the Extent of Cropland Abandonment in Mountainous Regions of China

    Shengfa Li;Xiubin Li;Laixiang Sun;Guiying Cao

  • Impacts of Urban Expansion on Terrestrial Carbon Storage in China.

    Xiaoping Liu;Shaojian Wang;Peijun Wu;Kuishuang Feng

  • State-owned versus township and village enterprises in China

    Enrico C Perotti;Laixiang Sun;Liang Zou

  • Study on the Impacts of Climate Change on China's Agriculture

    Hui Liu;Xiubin Li;Guenther Fischer;Laixiang Sun

  • Liquid biofuels in China: Current status, government policies, and future opportunities and challenges

    Huanguang Qiu;Huanguang Qiu;Laixiang Sun;Jikun Huang;Scott Rozelle

  • Explaining virtual water trade: A spatial-temporal analysis of the comparative advantage of land, labor and water in China.

    Dandan Zhao;Klaus Hubacek;Kuishuang Feng;Laixiang Sun

  • Economic and Societal Changes in China and their Effects onWater Use A Scenario Analysis

    Klaus Hubacek;Laixiang Sun

  • The Economic Gains and Environmental Losses of US Consumption: A World-Systems and Input-Output Approach

    Christina Prell;Kuishuang Feng;Laixiang Sun;Martha Geores

  • A hydro-economic MRIO analysis of the Haihe River Basin's water footprint and water stress

    David J. White;Kuishuang Feng;Laixiang Sun;Laixiang Sun;Laixiang Sun;Klaus Hubacek

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Hubacek
Klaus Hubacek University of Groningen
Kuishuang Feng
Kuishuang Feng University of Hong Kong
Günther Fischer
Günther Fischer International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Junguo Liu
Junguo Liu North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power
Steven J. Davis
Steven J. Davis Stanford University
Dabo Guan
Dabo Guan Tsinghua University
Julian Ramirez-Villegas
Julian Ramirez-Villegas Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical
Zhu Liu
Zhu Liu Tsinghua University
Francesco N. Tubiello
Francesco N. Tubiello Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Enrico C. Perotti
Enrico C. Perotti University of Amsterdam

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