Geography, Ecology, Sustainability science, Global climate change

 

2014.11---2015.11   Visiting Scholar, Michigan State University

2003.09---2009.07   M.S., Ph.D., Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences

 

   

2009.08---now, Assistant/Associate professor, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences

   

[1].     Dewei Yang, Tao Luo, Tao Lin, Quanyi Qiu, Yunjian Luo. 2014. Combining aesthetic with ecological values for landscape sustainability. PLoS one, e102437.

[2].     Dewei Yang, William Kao, Ning Huang, Run Wang, Xin Zhang, Wei Zhou. 2014. Process-based environmental communication and conflict mitigation during sudden pollution accidents. Journal of Cleaner Production, 66: 1–9.

[3].    Dewei Yang, William Tze Ming Kao, Guoqin Zhang, Nanyang Zhang. 2014. Evaluating spatiotemporal differences and sustainability of Xiamen urban metabolism using emergy synthesis. Ecological Modelling, 272: 40–48.

[4].    Dewei Yang, Yanjie Lin, Lijie Gao, Yanwei Sun, Run Wang, Guoqin Zhang. 2013. Process-based investigation of environmental pressure from urban household consumption for cross-boundary management. Energy Policy, 55: 626–635.

[5].    Dewei Yang, Lijie Gao, Lishan Xiao, Run Wang. 2012. Cross-boundary environmental effects of urban household metabolism based on an urban spatial conceptual framework: a comparative case of Xiamen. Journal of Cleaner Production, 27: 1–10.

[6].    Dewei Yang, Quanyi Qiu, Wenjuan Liu. 2012. Complementary zoning frameworks for sustainable management of eco-economic capital: a case study of Lijiang, China. Journal of Mountain Science, 9(6): 760–769.

[7].    Mingli Zhao*, Dewei Yang, Ping Wang, Ping Shi. 2015. A market-based approach to marine sand resource management in the Pearl River estuary, China. Ocean & Coastal Management, 105: 56–64.

[8].     Lijie Gao, Shenghui Cui, Dewei Yang, Jonathan Vause, Lishan Xiao, Longyu Shi, Xuanqi Li. 2016. Sustainability and Chinese urban settlements: extending the metabolism model of emergy evaluation. Sustainability. doi:10.3390/su8050459.

[9].     Fei Li, Shengkui Cheng, Huilu Yu, Dewei Yang. 2016. Waste from livestock and poultry breeding and its potential assessment of biogas energy in rural China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 126: 451–460.

[10].  Yan-wei Sun, Angela Hof, Run Wang, Jian Liu, Yan-jie Lin, De-wei Yang. 2013. GIS-based approach for potential analysis of solar PV generation at the regional scale: A case study of Fujian Province. Energy Policy, 58: 248–259.

 

Research interests have been focusing on functional interactions and cross-boundary environmental effects of regional geo-ecological process, socio-ecological system sustainability during urbanization, and adaptation policy and technologies to global climate change.

 

Key words: Urban metabolism; Geo-ecological processes; Human-environment interactions; Life Cycle Analysis; Material flows; Model simulation; Socio-ecosystem sustainability; Urban-region evolution; Urban footprint