K Feng

Biographic Data

ID	36081
NAME	K Feng
GIVEN NAMES	K
FAMILY NAME	Feng
SIGNATURE	FENG K
AFFILIATIONS	University of Maryland, College Park
ORCID	0000-0001-5139-444X
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	70
TOTAL CITATIONS	143
AUTHOR COUNT	70
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	6

The road to prosperity
Open AccessWanjun Wang, J Lobo et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2026
In-use stocks capture a core dimension of material well-being by reflecting the tangible conditions of daily life. As such, they form a key component of composite well-being indices and offer a tangible alternative to monetary metrics that can be difficult to compare across regions. In this study, we introduce the cMAC–EEEs (city MAterial Cycles and MAnufactured Capital–Electronic and Electrical Equipment) database—a novel dataset that covers per…
Distributional effects of expanding climate targets beyond CO2
Open AccessYating Kang, Peipei Tian et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2026
Levers for equitable material use
Open AccessPeipei Tian, K Feng et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2026References: 2
Consumption inequalities in material use undermining resources sustainability
Open AccessPeipei Tian, K Feng et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2026References: 14
Unequal air quality benefits from EV adoption in California, the world’s EV leader
Open AccessJiaxun Sun, Guangxiao Hu et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2026
Connects transport electrification to environmental justice using California ZIP code–level panel data (2015–2023). • Lower-income and less-educated communities consistently face higher PM 2.5 exposure. • EV adoption reduces PM 2.5 on average, but larger gains occur in wealthier, better-educated areas. • Develops a fixed-effects moderation framework (with elasticity analysis) to quantify unequal air-quality benefits of EVs. • Identifies income-ba…
Material price surges threaten an equitable and timely renewable energy transition
Open AccessPengfei Yuan, Jiashuo Li et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2025
Mapping mangrove deforestation and blue carbon loss in global supply chains between 2000 and 2019
Open AccessNevill Ge, Yu Xin et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2025
Implications of demographic policies on China’s food-related environmental footprints amid population ageing
Open AccessQingling Wang, Han Zhang et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2025Cited by: 1References: 5
Older adults (> 60 years) would dominate food-related environmental footprints after 2040. • Nationwide land use is projected to rise, whereas GHG emissions, eutrophication and water footprints would decline. • China’s demographic policies might increase total environmental footprints by 3–18% by 2050. • Land use is the most policy-sensitive footprint, with its peak delayed by at least a decade under strong fertility policies. • Adopting plant-ri…
Decoupling and Decomposition of Emissions and Economic Growth Based on Interprovincial Embodied Carbon Flow in China
Shaojian Wang, Jiabei Zhou et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the American…2025Cited by: 1References: 43
Breaking the strong connection between economic growth and carbon emissions is crucial for China to achieve high-quality, sustainable development. Neglecting the carbon emissions embedded in interregional trade risks inflating the perceived progress in decoupling, however, as emissions are often shifted between regions through trade. This research evaluates the decoupling of carbon emissions from economic growth, considering the embodied carbon f…
Determinants of the growing material footprints along the Belt and Road
Open AccessDanyang Zhang, K Feng et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2024
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has induced immense material consumption and environmental threats while fostering economic development along participating countries. Quantifying recent trends of the material footprint of BRI economies and identifying potential drivers are vital to inform sustainable resource use. However, an assessment on the determinants of BRI material consumption from an economic system viewpoint is lacking in the literatu…
Demand-side insights for steering human appropriation of net primary productivity within planetary boundaries
Open AccessShuanjin Wang, Xiangjie Chen et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2024
Global spillover effects of the European Green Deal and plausible mitigation options
Open AccessHonglin Zhong, Yanxian Li et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2024References: 3
Achieving European Green Deal (EGD) targets for carbon removal and ecological restoration would reduce agricultural and forestry production within the European Union yet simultaneously extend ecosystem impacts elsewhere. Here we quantify such spillover impacts by coupling an extended multi-regional input–output analysis with an agro-ecological zones model. We find that EGD’s agricultural and forestry targets set for 2030 could result in a 23.9 Mh…
Assessing the supply risks of critical metals in China's low-carbon energy transition
Open AccessPengfei Yuan, Dan Li et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2024References: 7
Impacts of air pollution on child growth
Open AccessLili Xu, K Feng et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2024Cited by: 3References: 8
Changes in global trade patterns increase global inequality towards Sustainable Development Goals
Open AccessJiayu Wang, Ke Wang et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2024References: 2
Interregional Flows of Embodied Carbon Storage Associated with Land-Use Change in China
Shaojian Wang, Shijie Zhou et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the American…2024Cited by: 6References: 51
With the continuous expansion of regional trade, interregional teleconnections have an increasingly pronounced impact on the changes in carbon storage caused by land use in China. Current research in this area remains remarkably limited, however. This study employs land-use data, carbon density data, and a multiregional input-output model to precisely quantify the embodied flow and spatial patterns of land-use carbon storage in China. We found th…
Burden of the global energy price crisis on households
Open AccessYuru Guan, Yan Jin et al.ARTICLENature Energy2023
Developing countries’ responsibilities for CO2 emissions in value chains are larger and growing faster than those of developed countries
Open AccessBo Meng, Yu Liu et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2023
Life-cycle assessment reveals disposable surgical masks in 2020–2022 led to more than 18 million tons of carbon emissions
Open AccessYue Li, Yuzhou Tang et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2023
Ecologically unequal exchanges driven by EU consumption
Open AccessBenedikt Bruckner, Yuli Shan et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2023Cited by: 4References: 14
Rising carbon inequality and its driving factors from 2005 to 2015
Open AccessHeran Zheng, Richard Wood et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2023Cited by: 10References: 2
Carbon inequality is the gap in carbon footprints between the rich and the poor, reflecting an uneven distribution of wealth and mitigation responsibility. Whilst much is known about the level of inequality surrounding responsibility for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, little is known about the evolution in carbon inequality and how the carbon footprints of socio-economic groups have developed over time. Inequality can be reduced either by improv…
Ageing society in developed countries challenges carbon mitigation
Open AccessHeran Zheng, Yin Long et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2022
Life cycle assessment shows that retrofitting coal-fired power plants with fuel cells will substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Open AccessFan Yang, Lichao Jia et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2022
Rising agricultural water scarcity in China is driven by expansion of irrigated cropland in water scarce regions
Open AccessXinxian Qi, K Feng et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2022
China’s power transformation may drastically change employment patterns in the power sector and its upstream supply chains
Open AccessSili Zhou, Bin Chen et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022
China’s power sector, as the major CO 2 emitter, has experienced significant restructuring that has had profound impacts on employment in both power and its upstream sectors. Combining input–output and structural path analysis, we quantified the direct and indirect impacts of power transformation on employment in China between 2012 and 2017. Direct employment in the power generation sector witnessed a net growth of 0.12 million, while over 10 tim…

Lifestyles, technology and CO2 emissions in China
Open AccessK Feng, Klaus Hubacek et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2009
Assessing regional and global water footprints for the UK
Open AccessYang Yu, Klaus Hubacek et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2010
Comparison of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches to Calculating the Water Footprints of Nations
K Feng, Ashok K Chapagain et al.ARTICLEEconomic Systems Research2011
The water footprint has been introduced as a potential sustainability indicator for human-induced water consumption, and has frequently been studied at local, national and international scales during the last decade. While water footprints are sometimes understood as a measure that includes environmental impact assessment, the water footprint as used in this paper refers to volumes of water consumed, without including weighting procedures to allo…
Analyzing Drivers of Regional Carbon Dioxide Emissions for China
Open AccessK Feng, Yim Ling Siu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2012
China faces the challenge of balancing unprecedented economic growth and environmental sustainability. Rather than a homogenous country that can be analyzed at the national level, China is a vast country with significant regional differences in physical geography, regional economy, demographics, industry structure, and household consumption patterns. There are pronounced differences between the much‐developed Eastern‐Coastal economic zone and the…
Outsourcing CO 2 within China
Open AccessK Feng, Steven J Davis et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2013
Recent studies have shown that the high standard of living enjoyed by people in the richest countries often comes at the expense of CO 2 emissions produced with technologies of low efficiency in less affluent, developing countries. Less apparent is that this relationship between developed and developing can exist within a single country’s borders, with rich regions consuming and exporting high-value goods and services that depend upon production …
Carbon footprints of cities and other human settlements in the UK
Open AccessJan C Minx, Jan Minx et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2013
A growing body of literature discusses the CO2 emissions of cities. Still, little is known about emission patterns across density gradients from remote rural places to highly urbanized areas, the drivers behind those emission patterns and the global emissions triggered by consumption in human settlements - referred to here as the carbon footprint. In this letter we use a hybrid method for estimating the carbon footprints of cities and other human…
Tele-connecting local consumption to global land use
Open AccessYang Yu, K Feng et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2013Cited by: 45References: 4
Economic vulnerability to Peak Oil
Open AccessChristian Kerschner, C Prell et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2013Cited by: 8References: 5
Teleconnecting Consumption to Environmental Impacts at Multiple Spatial Scales
Open AccessKlaus Hubacek, K Feng et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2014
The Economic Gains and Environmental Losses of US Consumption
C Prell, K Feng et al.ARTICLESocial Forces2014
Although research has shown that countries' world-systems positions can predict levels of pollution and wealth, there has been little research looking at how consumption in the core triggers both pollution and wealth elsewhere in the world economy. In this article, we track how consumption in the United States, a core country, triggers value added and pollution throughout global commodity chains. We track these distributions for all commodities a…
Drivers of greenhouse gas emissions in the Baltic States
Janis Brizga, K Feng et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2014
Drivers of the US CO2 emissions 1997–2013
Open AccessK Feng, Steven J Davis et al.ARTICLENature Communications2015
Fossil fuel CO 2 emissions in the United States decreased by ∼11% between 2007 and 2013, from 6,023 to 5,377 Mt. This decline has been widely attributed to a shift from the use of coal to natural gas in US electricity production. However, the factors driving the decline have not been quantitatively evaluated; the role of natural gas in the decline therefore remains speculative. Here we analyse the factors affecting US emissions from 1997 to 2013.…
Reduced carbon emission estimates from fossil fuel combustion and cement production in China
Open AccessZhu Liu, Dabo Guan et al.ARTICLENature2015
Linking Local Consumption to Global Impacts
Open AccessKlaus Hubacek, K Feng et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2016
Global Implications of China's Future Food Consumption
Open AccessYang Yu, K Feng et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2016
Rapid economic growth and urbanization in China have led to a substantial change in consumption patterns and diet structure of Chinese consumers over the past few decades. A growing demand for feed, fuel, and fiber also places intense pressure on land resources. With continuing growth of China's economy and migration from rural to urban, the increase in food consumption and change in diet structure will likely continue, which will not only impose…
Unequal Carbon Exchanges
Open AccessC Prell, K FengARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2016
In this article, we track how consumption in the United States, a highly developed “core” country, triggers value added and carbon inequalities around the globe. We consider these two sources of inequality for all commodities and services consumed in the United States, and then for three specific sectors, these being electronics, motor vehicles, and wearing apparel. Our findings show how the production of commodities for U.S. consumption tends to…
The evolution of global trade and impacts on countries’ carbon trade imbalances
Open AccessC Prell, K FengARTICLESocial Networks2016
Comparing apples and oranges
Open AccessKlaus Hubacek, K FengARTICLELand Use Policy2016Cited by: 9References: 41
Global carbon inequality
Open AccessKlaus Hubacek, Giovanni Baiocchi et al.ARTICLEEnergy, Ecology and Environment2017
Global climate change and inequality are inescapably linked both in terms of who contributes climate change and who suffers the consequences. This fact is also partly reflected in two United Nations (UN) processes: on the one hand, the Paris Agreement of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change under which countries agreed to hold the increase in the global average temperature to below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and, on the other hand,…
Poverty eradication in a carbon constrained world
Open AccessKlaus Hubacek, Giovanni Baiocchi et al.ARTICLENature Communications2017
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change aims to keep warming below 2 °C while recognizing developing countries’ right to eradicate extreme poverty. Poverty eradication is also the first of the Sustainable Development Goals. This paper investigates potential consequences for climate targets of achieving poverty eradication. We find that eradicating extreme poverty, i.e., moving people to an income above $1.9 purchasing power parity (PPP) a d…
Pattern changes in determinants of Chinese emissions
Open AccessZhifu Mi, Jing Meng et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017
The Chinese economy has been recovering slowly from the global financial crisis, but it cannot achieve the same rapid development of the pre-recession period. Instead, the country has entered a new phase of economic development—a 'new normal'. We use a structural decomposition analysis and environmental input–output analysis to estimate the determinants of China's carbon emission changes during 2005–2012. China's imports are linked to a global mu…
The rise of South–South trade and its effect on global CO2 emissions
Open AccessJing Meng, Zhifu Mi et al.ARTICLENature Communications2018
Economic globalization and concomitant growth in international trade since the late 1990s have profoundly reorganized global production activities and related CO 2 emissions. Here we show trade among developing nations (i.e., South–South trade) has more than doubled between 2004 and 2011, which reflects a new phase of globalization. Some production activities are relocating from China and India to other developing countries, particularly raw mate…
Revealing Environmental Inequality Hidden in China’s Inter-regional Trade
Wei Zhang, Yu Liu et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Technology2018
Trade among regions or countries not only allows the exchange of goods and services but also leads to the transfer of pollution. The unequal exchange of goods and services and associated value added and pollution may be subject to environmental inequality in China given that Chinese provinces are in different development stages. By using the latest multiregional input-output tables and the sectoral air pollutant emission inventory in 2012, we tra…
Air quality–carbon–water synergies and trade-offs in China’s natural gas industry
Open AccessYue Qin, Lena Höglund-Isaksson et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2018Cited by: 2References: 5
The environmental impacts of rapidly changing diets and their nutritional quality in China
Open AccessPan He, Giovanni Baiocchi et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2018Cited by: 18References: 5