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Xiangzheng Deng is a researcher affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, specializing in environmental science with a focus on global and planetary change, environmental engineering, and ecology. Their work spans several subfields including atmospheric science and economics and econometrics, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to environmental challenges.

Their research interests include topics such as agriculture sustainability and environmental impact, environmental impact and sustainability, land use and ecosystem services, climate variability and models, conservation, biodiversity and resource management, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and urban heat island mitigation.

Deng has published extensively in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Environmental Impact Assessment Review
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science

Their most recent papers cover diverse topics related to environmental science and sustainable development. Notable publications include:

  • Modeling farmers' adoption of low-carbon agricultural technology in Jianghan Plain, China: An examination of the theory of planned behavior (2022), published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • Examining the impacts of future land use/land cover changes on climate in Punjab province, Pakistan: implications for environmental sustainability and economic growth (2020), published in Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Livestock greenhouse gas emission and mitigation potential in China (2023), published in Journal of Environmental Management
  • Assessment of land degradation in the North China Plain driven by food security goals (2022), published in Ecological Engineering
  • Impact of rural industrial integration on farmers' income: Evidence from agricultural counties in China (2024), published in Journal of Asian Economics

Deng collaborates with a group of frequent coauthors contributing to their research outputs. These collaborators include Wenjiao Shi, Zhu Liu, Ziyue Yu, Zhigang Sun, and Wei Cheng.

Best Publications

  • China’s response to a national land-system sustainability emergency

    Brett A Bryan;Brett A Bryan;Lei Gao;Yangqiong Ye;Yangqiong Ye;Xiufeng Sun;Xiufeng Sun

  • Spatial and temporal patterns of China's cropland during 1990¿2000: An analysis based on Landsat TM data

    Jiyuan Liu;Mingliang Liu;Mingliang Liu;Hanqin Tian;Hanqin Tian;Dafang Zhuang

  • Study on spatial pattern of land-use change in China during 1995–2000

    Jiyuan Liu;Mingliang Liu;Dafang Zhuang;Zengxiang Zhang

  • Growth, Population and Industrialization and Urban Land Expansion of China

    Xiangzheng Deng;Jikun Huang;Scott Rozelle;Emi Uchida

  • Land-use/land-cover change and ecosystem service provision in China

    Wei Song;Xiangzheng Deng

  • Impact of urbanization on cultivated land changes in China

    Xiangzheng Deng;Jikun Huang;Scott D. Rozelle;Jipeng Zhang

  • Cultivated land conversion and potential agricultural productivity in China

    Xiangzheng Deng;Jikun Huang;Scott D. Rozelle;Emi Uchida

  • Spatio-temporal patterns and driving forces of urban land expansion in China during the economic reform era.

    Jiyuan Liu;Jinyan Zhan;Xiangzheng Deng

  • The impact of urban expansion on agricultural land use intensity in China

    Li Jiang;Xiangzheng Deng;Karen C. Seto

  • City-level climate change mitigation in China

    Yuli Shan;Yuli Shan;Dabo Guan;Dabo Guan;Klaus Hubacek;Klaus Hubacek;Bo Zheng;Bo Zheng

  • Assessing changes in the value of ecosystem services in response to land-use/land-cover dynamics in Nigeria

    Aisha Olushola Arowolo;Xiangzheng Deng;Olusanya Abiodun Olatunji;Abiodun Elijah Obayelu

  • Economic Growth and the Expansion of Urban Land in China

    Xiangzheng Deng;Jikun Huang;Scott Rozelle;Emi Uchida

  • Impacts of industrial structure and technical progress on carbon emission intensity: Evidence from 281 cities in China

    Fan Zhang;Xiangzheng Deng;Fred Phillips;Fred Phillips;Chuanglin Fang

  • Grain for Green versus Grain : Conflict between Food Security and Conservation Set-Aside in China

    Zhigang Xu;Jintao Xu;Xiangzheng Deng;Jikun Huang

  • Exploring the relationship between urbanization and urban eco-efficiency: Evidence from prefecture-level cities in China

    Yuping Bai;Xiangzheng Deng;Sijian Jiang;Qian Zhang

  • A review on trade-off analysis of ecosystem services for sustainable land-use management

    Xiangzheng Deng;Zhihui Li;John Gibson

  • Multi-level modeling of urban expansion and cultivated land conversion for urban hotspot counties in China

    Li Jiang;Xiangzheng Deng;Karen C. Seto

  • Dynamic interactive effects of urban land-use efficiency, industrial transformation, and carbon emissions

    Yin Dong;Gui Jin;Xiangzheng Deng

  • Spatiotemporal patterns in urbanization efficiency within the Yangtze River Economic Belt between 2005 and 2014

    Gui Jin;Xiangzheng Deng;Xiaodong Zhao;Baishu Guo

  • Impacts of land-use change on valued ecosystem service in rapidly urbanized North China Plain

    Wei Song;Xiangzheng Deng;Yongwei Yuan;Zhan Wang

  • Evaluation of the Impacts of Land Use on Water Quality: A Case Study in The Chaohu Lake Basin

    Juan Huang;Jinyan Zhan;Haiming Yan;Feng Wu

Frequent Co-Authors

Jikun Huang
Jikun Huang Peking University
Scott Rozelle
Scott Rozelle Stanford University
John Gibson
John Gibson University of Waikato
Jiyuan Liu
Jiyuan Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wopke van der Werf
Wopke van der Werf Wageningen University & Research
Burak Güneralp
Burak Güneralp Texas A&M University
Mingliang Liu
Mingliang Liu Washington State University
Junguo Liu
Junguo Liu North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power
Mark W. Rosegrant
Mark W. Rosegrant International Food Policy Research Institute
Shuqing Zhao
Shuqing Zhao Peking University

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