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Wendong Wei is affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China and specializes in environmental science with a research focus on multiple subfields including economics and econometrics, environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and pollution.

Their work covers key topics such as environmental impact and sustainability, energy, environment, and economic growth, extraction and separation processes, recycling and waste management techniques, air quality and health impacts, energy and environment impacts, as well as climate change policy and economics.

Recent papers authored by Wendong Wei include the following:

  • The impact of low-carbon city pilot policy on the total factor productivity of listed enterprises in China (2021), published in Resources Conservation and Recycling
  • Regional determinants of China's consumption-based emissions in the economic transition (2020), published in Environmental Research Letters
  • The effect of economic growth target constraints on green technology innovation (2021), published in Journal of Environmental Management
  • Air pollution reduction and climate co-benefits in China's industries (2021), published in Nature Sustainability
  • Will income inequality influence the abatement effect of renewable energy technological innovation on carbon dioxide emissions? (2020), published in Journal of Environmental Management

Wendong Wei frequently publishes in journals such as the Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, Environmental Research Letters, Resources Policy, and Resources Conservation and Recycling.

Their frequent collaborators include Yong Geng, Jiashuo Li, Pengfei Zhang, Haoqi Qian, and Zhujun Chen.

Best Publications

  • The impact of low-carbon city pilot policy on the total factor productivity of listed enterprises in China

    Hao Chen;Hao Chen;Wei Guo;Xue Feng;Wendong Wei

  • Global land-water nexus: Agricultural land and freshwater use embodied in worldwide supply chains.

    B. Chen;M.Y. Han;K. Peng;S.L. Zhou

  • Regional determinants of China's consumption-based emissions in the economic transition

    Heran Zheng;Zengkai Zhang;Wendong Wei;Malin Song

  • Air pollution reduction and climate co-benefits in China’s industries

    Haoqi Qian;Shaodan Xu;Jing Cao;Feizhou Ren

  • Will income inequality influence the abatement effect of renewable energy technological innovation on carbon dioxide emissions

    Caiquan Bai;Chen Feng;Hong Yan;Xing Yi

  • How does digital technology promote carbon emission reduction? Empirical evidence based on e-commerce pilot city policy in China.

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  • Chinese provincial multi-regional input-output database for 2012, 2015, and 2017.

    Heran Zheng;Yangchun Bai;Wendong Wei;Jing Meng

  • The global power sector’s low-carbon transition may enhance sustainable development goal achievement

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  • Embodied greenhouse gas emissions from building China’s large-scale power transmission infrastructure

    Wendong Wei;Jiashuo Li;Bin Chen;Meng Wang;Meng Wang

  • Critical Rare-Earth Elements Mismatch Global Wind-Power Ambitions

    Jiashuo Li;Kun Peng;Peng Wang;Ning Zhang

  • Transregional electricity transmission and carbon emissions: Evidence from ultra-high voltage transmission projects in China

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  • Unbalanced economic benefits and the electricity-related carbon emissions embodied in China's interprovincial trade.

    Wendong Wei;Shaojie Hao;Mingtao Yao;Wen Chen

  • Multi-scope electricity-related carbon emissions accounting: a case study of Shanghai

    Wendong Wei;Pengfei Zhang;Mingtao Yao;Min Xue

  • Decoupling relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in China's provinces from the perspective of resource security

    Wendong Wei;Wenqiu Cai;Yi Guo;Caiquan Bai

  • Carbon emissions and driving forces of China's power sector: Input-output model based on the disaggregated power sector

    Fang Luo;Yi Guo;Mingtao Yao;Wenqiu Cai

  • Spatial-temporal pattern evolution and driving factors of China's energy efficiency under low-carbon economy.

    Yan Zhang;Wei Wang;Longwu Liang;Daoping Wang

  • Urban carbon emissions associated with electricity consumption in Beijing and the driving factors

    Pengfei Zhang;Pengfei Zhang;Wenqiu Cai;Mingtao Yao;Zhiyou Wang

  • Tracking mercury emission flows in the global supply chains: A multi-regional input-output analysis

    J.S. Li;B. Chen;G.Q. Chen;W.D. Wei

  • How green transition of energy system impacts China's mercury emissions

    Jiashuo Li;Wendong Wei;Wei Zhen;Yi Guo

  • Evolutionary process of household waste separation behavior based on social networks

    Junjun Zheng;Gang Ma;Ju Wei;Wendong Wei

  • China's energy-related mercury emissions: Characteristics, impact of trade and mitigation policies

    B. Chen;B. Chen;J.S. Li;G.Q. Chen;W.D. Wei

  • Has environmental information disclosure eased the economic inhibition of air pollution

    Yan Feng;Hao Chen;Zhujun Chen;Yinuo Wang

  • Impact of a Coal-Fired Power Plant Shutdown Campaign on Heavy Metal Emissions in China.

    Sili Zhou;Wendong Wei;Long Chen;Zengkai Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Bin Chen
Bin Chen Xi'an Jiaotong University
Dabo Guan
Dabo Guan Tsinghua University
Guoqian Chen
Guoqian Chen Peking University
Jing Meng
Jing Meng University College London
Kuishuang Feng
Kuishuang Feng University of Hong Kong
Qing Yang
Qing Yang Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Ning Zhang
Ning Zhang Tsinghua University
Sai Liang
Sai Liang Guangdong University of Technology
Bin Chen
Bin Chen Beijing Normal University
Yutao Wang
Yutao Wang Fudan University

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