Name: HAN Mengyao

Academic Affiliation: Associate Professor

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

Education & Experience:

2022—        University of Cambridge, Visiting Scholar

2018—        Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Associate Professor

2016—2018    Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Assistant Professor

2011—2016    Peking University, Ph.D.

Research Areas:

Energy Geographies; Environmental Economics; Low-carbon Transition; Sustainable Development

Honors & Distinctions:

ESI Highly Cited Paper in Web of Science

Hottest 25 Articles in ScienceDirect

Elsevier Atlas Award Article among 3800 Journals

Best Speaker Award, International Workshop on Geography and Sustainability 2021

Key Scientific Article featured by Renewable Energy Global Innovations

Excellent Tutor Award, China’s National Energy and Economy Academic Creativity Competition

Committees & Services:

Energy Geographies Research Group, General Committee Member

Royal Geographical Society, Fellow

China’s Energy and Climate Finance Association, Committee Member

China’s Ecological and Environmental Systems Engineering, Committee Member

Petroleum Science Bulletin Journal, Executive Editor

Land Journal, Editorial Board Member

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, Associate Editor

Representative Publications:

I. Energy Economics and Energy Geographies

Han, M.Y., Xiong, J., Wang, S.Y., et al., 2020. Chinese photovoltaic poverty alleviation: Geographic distribution, economic benefits and emission mitigation. Energy Policy, 144, 111685.

Liao, M.L., Zhang, Z., Jia, J., Xiong, J., Han, M.Y. (*), 2022. Mapping China’s photovoltaic power geographies: Spatial-temporal evolution, provincial competition and low-carbon transition. Renewable Energy, 191, 251-260.

Xia, Q.Z., Han, M.Y. (*), Guan, S.H., et al., 2022. Tracking embodied energy flows of China’s megacities via multi-scale supply chains. Energy, 260, 125043.

Song, Z.Y., Zhu, Q.L., Han, M.Y. (*), 2021. Tele-connection of global crude oil network: Comparisons between direct trade and embodied flows. Energy, 217, 119359.

Guo, S., Han, M.Y. (*), Yang, Y.P., 2020. Embodied energy flows in China’s economic zones: Jing-Jin-Ji, Yangtze-River-Delta and Pearl-River-Delta. Journal of Cleaner Production, 268, 121710.

Han, M.Y., Tang, J., Lashari, A.K., Abbas, K., Liu, H., Liu, W.D., 2022. Unveiling China’s overseas photovoltaic power stations in Pakistan under low-carbon transition. Land, 11(10), 1719.

Li, Y.L., Han, M.Y. (*), Liu, S.Y., et al., 2019. Energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by buildings: A multi-scale perspective. Building and Environment, 151, 240-250.

Han M.Y., Chen G.Q., Shao L., et al., 2013. Embodied energy consumption of building construction engineering: Case study in E-town, Beijing. Energy and Buildings, 64, 62-72.

II. Low-carbon Transition and Global Climate Change

Han, M.Y., 2020. Joint Efforts for a Green Silk Road. One Earth, 3, 267.

Han, M.Y., Lao, J.M., Yao, Q.H., et al., 2020. Carbon inequality and economic development across the Belt and Road regions. Journal of Environmental Management, 262, 110250.

Han, M.Y., Zhang, B., Zhang, Y.Q., et al., 2019. Agricultural CH4 and N2O emissions of major economies: Consumption-vs. production-based perspectives. Journal of Cleaner Production, 210, 276-286.

Yan, C.H., Han, M.Y. (*), Liu, Y., et al., 2021. Household CH4 and N2O footprints of major economies. Earth’s Future, 9, e2021EF002143.

Sun, X.D., Li, Z.Y., Cheng, X.L., Guan, C.H., Han, M.Y. (*), et al., 2022. Global anthropogenic CH4 emissions from 1970 to 2018: Gravity movement and decoupling evolution. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 182, 106335.

Li Y.L., Chen B., Han, M.Y. (*), 2018. Tracking carbon transfers embodied in Chinese municipalities’ domestic and foreign trade. Journal of Cleaner Production, 192, 950-960.

Zhang, J.P., Han, M.Y. (*), 2022. Production- and consumption-based carbon emission decoupling and decomposition of the Belt and Road countries. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10, 981785.

III. Energy-Water-Land Nexus and Sustainable Development

Liu, S.Y., Zhao, L., Wang, Z.Y., Han, M.Y. (*), et al., 2022. Exploring energy-saving potentials in seawater desalination engineering from the energy-water nexus perspective. Journal of Environmental Management, 312, 114854.

Ai, C., Zhao, L., Song, D., Han, M.Y. (*), et al., 2023. Identifying greenhouse gas emission reduction potentials through large-scale photovoltaic-driven seawater desalination. Science of the Total Environment, 857(3), 159402.

Zhou, W.W., Feng, R.L., Han, M.Y. (*), et al., 2022. Evolution characters and regulation impacts within the global scrap rubber trade network. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 181, 106201.

Han, M.Y., Chen, G.Q., 2018. Global arable land transfers embodied in Mainland China’s foreign trade. Land Use Policy, 70, 521-534.

Han, M.Y., Chen, G.Q., Dunford, M., 2019. Land use balance for urban economy: A multi-scale and multi-type perspective. Land Use Policy, 83, 323-333.

Chen, G.Q., Han, M.Y. (*), 2015. Virtual land use change in China 2002-2010: Internal transition and trade imbalance. Land Use Policy, 47, 55-65.

Han, M.Y., Chen, G.Q., Li, Y.L., 2018. Global water transfers embodied in international trade: Tracking imbalanced and inefficient flows. Journal of Cleaner Production, 184, 50-64.

Han, M.Y., Sui, X., Huang, Z.L., et al., 2014. Bibliometric indicators for sustainable hydropower development. Ecological Indicators, 47, 231-238.

Research Projects:

1. Double Carbon Goals Reshape China’s Cross-border Trade Networks with Potential Economic Risk Prevention, National Social Science Foundation of China (2022-2024)

2. China’s National Assessment Report on Climate Change (4th Version), Ministry of Science and Technology, China (2017-2020)

3. Spatial Roadmap and Construction Mechanism of Green Silk Road Construction, China Academy of Sciences, China (2018-2022)

4. Optimal Path of Carbon Emissions Peak in China towards 2030, National Key Research and Development Program, China (2016-2021)

5. Embodied Resource Transfers in Trade Network: Multi-Regional Multi-Scalar Perspective, National Natural Science Foundation, China (2018-2020)

6. Road Map for Carbon Capture and Storage Development and Technology, Asian Development Bank Project (2013-2014)

7. Low-carbon Technology Development and Supporting System Construction, Beijing ResearchInnovation Project, China (2011-2012) 

Office Address:

11A, Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, PR China

Telephone: 86-10-64889817

Email: hanmy@igsnrr.ac.cn

Updated on November 18, 2022