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Overview

Yan Zhang is affiliated with Beijing Normal University in China and specializes in environmental science with a focus on topics such as environmental impact and sustainability, sustainability and ecological systems analysis, land use and ecosystem services, sustainable industrial ecology, climate change policy and economics, energy, environment, economic growth, and urban transport and accessibility.

Yan Zhang's research contributions span across several main and subfields of study including:

  • Environmental Science
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Ecology

Yan Zhang has published extensively in scientific journals, with frequent venues of publication including:

  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Environmental Impact Assessment Review
  • Resources Conservation and Recycling
  • Ecological Modelling
  • Journal of Environmental Management

Several notable recent papers include:

  • The carbon emissions related to the land-use changes from 2000 to 2015 in Shenzhen, China: Implication for exploring low-carbon development in megacities (2022), Journal of Environmental Management
  • The evolution of material stock research: From exploring to rising to hot studies (2021), Journal of Industrial Ecology
  • Impacts of landscape change on net primary productivity by integrating remote sensing data and ecosystem model in a rapidly urbanizing region in China (2021), Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Integrated effects of land use and land cover change on carbon metabolism: Based on ecological network analysis (2023), Environmental Impact Assessment Review
  • Evaluating circular economy performance based on ecological network analysis: A framework and application at city level (2021), Resources Conservation and Recycling

Yan Zhang frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, many of whom have multiple joint publications. These include:

  • Zhifeng Yang
  • Dongxiao Xu
  • Linlin Xia
  • Chenling Fu
  • Tianjie Deng

Best Publications

  • Urban metabolism: a review of research methodologies.

    Yan Zhang

  • Analyses of urban ecosystem based on information entropy

    Yan Zhang;Zhifeng Yang;Wei Li

  • Ecological network analysis of an urban water metabolic system: Model development, and a case study for Beijing

    Yan Zhang;Zhifeng Yang;Brian D. Fath;Brian D. Fath

  • Ecological network and emergy analysis of urban metabolic systems: Model development, and a case study of four Chinese cities

    Yan Zhang;Zhifeng Yang;Xiangyi Yu

  • Urban Metabolism: A Review of Current Knowledge and Directions for Future Study

    Yan Zhang;Zhifeng Yang;Xiangyi Yu

  • Evaluation of urban metabolism based on emergy synthesis: A case study for Beijing (China)

    Yan Zhang;Zhifeng Yang;Xiangyi Yu

  • Eco-efficiency of urban material metabolism: a case study in Shenzhen, China

    Yan Zhang;Zhifeng Yang

  • Ecological network analysis of an urban energy metabolic system: Model development, and a case study of four Chinese cities

    Yan Zhang;Zhifeng Yang;Brian D. Fath;Brian D. Fath;Shengsheng Li

  • Ecological network analysis of an urban metabolic system based on input–output tables: Model development and case study for Beijing

    Yan Zhang;Hongmei Zheng;Brian D. Fath;Brian D. Fath;Hong Liu

  • Measurement and evaluation of interactions in complex urban ecosystem

    Yan Zhang;Zhifeng Yang;Xiangyi Yu

  • Remediation technology for the uranium contaminated environment: a review

    J. Li;Y. Zhang

  • Prevention and control policy analysis for energy-related regional pollution management in China

    Gengyuan Liu;Gengyuan Liu;Zhifeng Yang;Zhifeng Yang;Bin Chen;Bin Chen;Yan Zhang;Yan Zhang

  • Urban energy flow processes in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (Jing-Jin-Ji) urban agglomeration: combining multi-regional input–output tables with ecological network analysis

    Yan Zhang;Hongmei Zheng;Zhifeng Yang;Yanxian Li

  • Calibration of the LISEM model for a small loess plateau catchment

    Rudi Hessel;Rudi Hessel;Victor Jetten;Baoyuan Liu;Yan Zhang

  • Regional differences in the factors that influence China’s energy-related carbon emissions, and potential mitigation strategies

    Yan Zhang;Jinyun Zhang;Zhifeng Yang;Shengsheng Li

  • An emergy-LCA analysis of municipal solid waste management

    Gengyuan Liu;Gengyuan Liu;Yan Hao;Yan Hao;Liang Dong;Liang Dong;Zhifeng Yang;Zhifeng Yang

  • Analyzing spatial patterns of urban carbon metabolism: A case study in Beijing, China

    Yan Zhang;Xia Linlin;Xiang Weining

  • Emergy analysis of the urban metabolism of Beijing

    Yan Zhang;Zhifeng Yang;Gengyuan Liu;Xiangyi Yu

  • Multiscale spatiotemporal characteristics of landscape patterns, hotspots, and influencing factors for soil erosion

    Lijia Guo;Ruimin Liu;Cong Men;Qingrui Wang

  • Ecological network determination of sectoral linkages, utility relations and structural characteristics on urban ecological economic system

    G.Y. Liu;Z.F. Yang;B. Chen;Y. Zhang

  • Multi-regional input–output model and ecological network analysis for regional embodied energy accounting in China

    Yan Zhang;Hongmei Zheng;Zhifeng Yang;Meirong Su

  • Emergy-based urban ecosystem health assessment: A case study of Baotou, China

    G.Y. Liu;Z.F. Yang;B. Chen;Y. Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Gengyuan Liu
Gengyuan Liu Beijing Normal University
Zhifeng Yang
Zhifeng Yang Guangdong University of Technology
Brian D. Fath
Brian D. Fath Towson University
Sergio Ulgiati
Sergio Ulgiati Parthenope University of Naples
Lixiao Zhang
Lixiao Zhang Beijing Normal University
Ruimin Liu
Ruimin Liu Beijing Normal University
Mark T. Brown
Mark T. Brown University of Florida
Klaus Hubacek
Klaus Hubacek University of Groningen
Liang Dong
Liang Dong City University of Hong Kong
Junhong Bai
Junhong Bai Beijing Normal University

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