Wei‐Qiang Chen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6387206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wei‐Qiang Chen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wei‐Qiang |
| FAMILY NAME | Chen |
| SIGNATURE | CHEN W Q |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7686-2331 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dynamic resilience and synergistic strategies for the cobalt supply chain
The road to prosperity
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…
Urban metabolism as a pathway to advance Nature-based Solutions for climate-resilient cities
Rapid urbanisation has stimulated profound socio-economic transformation while intensifying systemic urban risks such as flooding and urban heat. These climate-induced stresses underscore the imperative of resilience-oriented urban frameworks. Existing research highlights Nature-based Solutions (NbS) as pivotal strategies for climate mitigation and adaptation, yet their widespread implementation remains constrained by persistent barriers. Urban m…
Optimizing rural settlements in China through rural system resilience and socio-spatial kinships
Applications of geospatial technologies for construction and demolition waste management
Construction and demolition waste management (CDWM) is a grand challenge on a global scale. Traditional CDWM has heavily relied on anthropological approaches, which may prevent stakeholders from acquiring a comprehensive understanding of a macro standpoint for developing effective strategies. The emergence of geospatial technologies offers a more objective and precise approach for CDWM to enhance resource management and support environmental and …
Hybrid multi-stage steel footprinting unveils a more interdependent material foundation of the global economy
Urbanization inequality
Unequal outcomes resulting from urbanization can pose a significant challenge to sustainable development. Vehicles are an important urbanization dimension as a critical component of urban infrastructure by providing mobility and accessibility to social services. China’s vehicle ownership ( referred to as in-use vehicle stocks ) has been growing quickly since 2000, but its per capita stocks are still much lower than that in developed economies. Th…
Material metabolism and associated environmental impacts in Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration
Rapid urbanization has resulted in significant bulk materials use, raising concerns over associated environmental impacts and sustainability challenges. However, a significant gap remains in the city‐level analysis of bulk materials production, use, and associated environmental impacts in China. This study calculated the stocks and flows of 13 bulk materials and their associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across nine cities in the Pearl River…
Mapping manufactured capital in mainland China with harmonized night‐time light images between 1992 and 2018
The manufactured capital, usually denoted as material stocks from an industrial ecology perspective, has thus far received wide attention in sustainability and circularity science. Sustainable resource management should be rooted in detailed knowledge of manufactured capital accumulation in society at a high spatial resolution. Previous studies demonstrated that night‐time light (NTL) data provide a great opportunity for monitoring material stock…
Interdependence in rare earth element supply between China and the United States helps stabilize global supply chains
Environmental impacts of lithium supply chains from Australia to China
Lithium (Li) has been widely recognized as an essential metal for clean technologies. However, the environmental impacts and emission reduction pathways of the lithium supply chain have not been clearly investigated, especially between Australia and China, where most lithium ore are mined and produced. This study analyzed and compared the environmental and human health implications of six key cross-border Li supply chains from Australia to China …
Multinational dynamic steel cycle analysis reveals sequential decoupling between material use and economic growth
Seven decades of plastic flows and stocks in the United States and pathways toward zero plastic pollution by 2050
The United States is the world's second‐largest producer and consumer of plastics and the largest producer of plastic waste. Understanding the sources, drivers, and destinations of plastic production, consumption, and waste is critical for the United States to develop strategies toward a zero‐plastic pollution future. Here, we characterize the dynamic material flows and stocks of plastics in the United States for nearly seven decades (1950–2018) …
Exploring the global trade networks of the tungsten supply chain
International trade is essential to bridge the imbalance between supply and demand of materials along with different nations effectively, especially for critical raw materials such as tungsten that are highly geographically unequally distributed. However, the international trade flows and their complex networks that link those participating nations have remained largely unexplored, which leads to inexplicable concerns for materials' criticality a…
Quantifying urban mass gain and loss by a GIS‐based material stocks and flows analysis
Rapid urbanization generates substantial demand, use, and demolition waste of construction materials. However, the existing top‐down or bottom‐up frameworks combining material flow analysis (MFA) and geographic information system (GIS) tend to underestimate both input and output of construction material flows due to insufficient descriptions of key processes in building construction and demolition. To address this limitation, this study identifie…
Critical mineral constraints in global renewable scenarios under 1.5 °C target
To avoid catastrophic climate change, the world is promoting a fast and unprecedented transition from fuels to renewables. However, the infrastructures of renewables, such as wind turbines and solar cells, rely heavily on critical minerals like rare earths, indium, etc. Such interactions between climate targets, energy transitions, and critical minerals were widely overlooked in the present climate scenario analysis. This study aims to fill this …
Carbon Ion Radiotherapy Acts as the Optimal Treatment Strategy for Unresectable Liver Cancer During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Crisis
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has greatly disrupted the normal treatment of patients with liver cancer and increased their risk of death. The weight of therapeutic safety was significantly amplified for decision-making to minimize the risk of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Herein, the safety and effectiveness of carbon ion radiotherapy (CIRT) for unresectable liver cancer (ULC) were eval…
Design of Beam Shaping Assemblies for Accelerator-Based BNCT With Multi-Terminals
To moderate fast neutrons produced by accelerator to appropriate therapeutic energies for boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT), beam shaping assembly (BSA) is required definitely. In this work, based on a model of 2.5 MeV/30 mA proton accelerator, the Monte Carlo simulation software MCNPX was employed to design multi-terminal BSAs. All parameters for both the thermal and epithermal neutron beams at the exit ports of the designed BSAs meet the tre…
Critical review of global plastics stock and flow data
The production, consumption, and waste of plastics have been rapidly growing worldwide in the last decades. A variety of data are needed to characterize plastics stocks and flows across space, time, and life cycle to derive insights for developing strategies to address various sustainability challenges from plastics and plastics waste. Here we review data sources on plastics stocks and flows to identify data gaps and research needs. We categorize…
Build in prevention and preparedness to improve climate resilience in coastal cities
Toward sustainable climate change adaptation
Industrial ecology (IE) has made great contributions to climate change mitigation research, in terms of its systems thinking and solid methodologies such as life cycle assessment, material flow analysis, and environmentally extended input–output analysis. However, its potential contribution to climate change adaptation is unclear. Adaptation has become increasingly urgent in a continuously changing climate, especially in developing countries, whi…
Urban Science
Restoring Abandoned Farmland to Mitigate Climate Change on a Full Earth
Characteristics of the global copper raw materials and scrap trade systems and the policy impacts of China's import ban
Inequality of public health and its role in spatial accessibility to medical facilities in China
Genuine saving rate
The construction of an ecocity is gradually gaining attention as an indicator of sustainable development. Genuine saving rate (GSR), which takes account of various impacts of economic activities including depletion of natural resources, costs of environmental pollution and long-term environmental damage, can be used as an integrated indicator to measure the status quo and potential of sustainability for an ecocity. This paper discusses the concep…
Dynamic analysis of aluminum stocks and flows in the United States
Recycling Rates of Aluminum in the United States
Recycling rates of aluminum are defined in different (sometimes inconsistent) ways and poorly quantified. To address this situation, the definitions and calculation methods of four groups of indicators are specified for the United States: (1) indicators used to measure recycling efficiencies of old aluminum scrap at the end‐of‐life (EOL) stage, including EOL collection rate (CR), EOL processing rate, EOL recycling rate, and EOL domestic recycling…
Economic Growth and the Evolution of Material Cycles
Inequality of public health and its role in spatial accessibility to medical facilities in China
Dynamic Product‐Level Analysis of In‐Use Aluminum Stocks in the United States
This study estimates product‐level in‐use stocks of aluminum in the United States for the period 1960–2009 (or longer in some cases) and explores patterns of the historical evolution of in‐use aluminum stocks at both product and sector levels. The principal findings are the following: (1) results estimated by the product‐level methods in this study match reasonably well with those estimated by the sector‐level method for five sectors (except the …
Toward sustainable climate change adaptation
Industrial ecology (IE) has made great contributions to climate change mitigation research, in terms of its systems thinking and solid methodologies such as life cycle assessment, material flow analysis, and environmentally extended input–output analysis. However, its potential contribution to climate change adaptation is unclear. Adaptation has become increasingly urgent in a continuously changing climate, especially in developing countries, whi…
Urban Science
Restoring Abandoned Farmland to Mitigate Climate Change on a Full Earth
Characteristics of the global copper raw materials and scrap trade systems and the policy impacts of China's import ban
Carbon Ion Radiotherapy Acts as the Optimal Treatment Strategy for Unresectable Liver Cancer During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Crisis
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has greatly disrupted the normal treatment of patients with liver cancer and increased their risk of death. The weight of therapeutic safety was significantly amplified for decision-making to minimize the risk of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Herein, the safety and effectiveness of carbon ion radiotherapy (CIRT) for unresectable liver cancer (ULC) were eval…
Design of Beam Shaping Assemblies for Accelerator-Based BNCT With Multi-Terminals
To moderate fast neutrons produced by accelerator to appropriate therapeutic energies for boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT), beam shaping assembly (BSA) is required definitely. In this work, based on a model of 2.5 MeV/30 mA proton accelerator, the Monte Carlo simulation software MCNPX was employed to design multi-terminal BSAs. All parameters for both the thermal and epithermal neutron beams at the exit ports of the designed BSAs meet the tre…
Critical review of global plastics stock and flow data
The production, consumption, and waste of plastics have been rapidly growing worldwide in the last decades. A variety of data are needed to characterize plastics stocks and flows across space, time, and life cycle to derive insights for developing strategies to address various sustainability challenges from plastics and plastics waste. Here we review data sources on plastics stocks and flows to identify data gaps and research needs. We categorize…
Build in prevention and preparedness to improve climate resilience in coastal cities
Quantifying urban mass gain and loss by a GIS‐based material stocks and flows analysis
Rapid urbanization generates substantial demand, use, and demolition waste of construction materials. However, the existing top‐down or bottom‐up frameworks combining material flow analysis (MFA) and geographic information system (GIS) tend to underestimate both input and output of construction material flows due to insufficient descriptions of key processes in building construction and demolition. To address this limitation, this study identifie…
Critical mineral constraints in global renewable scenarios under 1.5 °C target
To avoid catastrophic climate change, the world is promoting a fast and unprecedented transition from fuels to renewables. However, the infrastructures of renewables, such as wind turbines and solar cells, rely heavily on critical minerals like rare earths, indium, etc. Such interactions between climate targets, energy transitions, and critical minerals were widely overlooked in the present climate scenario analysis. This study aims to fill this …
Seven decades of plastic flows and stocks in the United States and pathways toward zero plastic pollution by 2050
The United States is the world's second‐largest producer and consumer of plastics and the largest producer of plastic waste. Understanding the sources, drivers, and destinations of plastic production, consumption, and waste is critical for the United States to develop strategies toward a zero‐plastic pollution future. Here, we characterize the dynamic material flows and stocks of plastics in the United States for nearly seven decades (1950–2018) …
Exploring the global trade networks of the tungsten supply chain
International trade is essential to bridge the imbalance between supply and demand of materials along with different nations effectively, especially for critical raw materials such as tungsten that are highly geographically unequally distributed. However, the international trade flows and their complex networks that link those participating nations have remained largely unexplored, which leads to inexplicable concerns for materials' criticality a…
Urbanization inequality
Unequal outcomes resulting from urbanization can pose a significant challenge to sustainable development. Vehicles are an important urbanization dimension as a critical component of urban infrastructure by providing mobility and accessibility to social services. China’s vehicle ownership ( referred to as in-use vehicle stocks ) has been growing quickly since 2000, but its per capita stocks are still much lower than that in developed economies. Th…
Material metabolism and associated environmental impacts in Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration
Rapid urbanization has resulted in significant bulk materials use, raising concerns over associated environmental impacts and sustainability challenges. However, a significant gap remains in the city‐level analysis of bulk materials production, use, and associated environmental impacts in China. This study calculated the stocks and flows of 13 bulk materials and their associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across nine cities in the Pearl River…
Mapping manufactured capital in mainland China with harmonized night‐time light images between 1992 and 2018
The manufactured capital, usually denoted as material stocks from an industrial ecology perspective, has thus far received wide attention in sustainability and circularity science. Sustainable resource management should be rooted in detailed knowledge of manufactured capital accumulation in society at a high spatial resolution. Previous studies demonstrated that night‐time light (NTL) data provide a great opportunity for monitoring material stock…
Interdependence in rare earth element supply between China and the United States helps stabilize global supply chains
Environmental impacts of lithium supply chains from Australia to China
Lithium (Li) has been widely recognized as an essential metal for clean technologies. However, the environmental impacts and emission reduction pathways of the lithium supply chain have not been clearly investigated, especially between Australia and China, where most lithium ore are mined and produced. This study analyzed and compared the environmental and human health implications of six key cross-border Li supply chains from Australia to China …
Multinational dynamic steel cycle analysis reveals sequential decoupling between material use and economic growth
Applications of geospatial technologies for construction and demolition waste management
Construction and demolition waste management (CDWM) is a grand challenge on a global scale. Traditional CDWM has heavily relied on anthropological approaches, which may prevent stakeholders from acquiring a comprehensive understanding of a macro standpoint for developing effective strategies. The emergence of geospatial technologies offers a more objective and precise approach for CDWM to enhance resource management and support environmental and …
Economics (16 works) · Business (14 works) · Engineering (13 works) · Environmental Science (13 works) · Environmental Impact and Sustainability (12 works) · Extraction and Separation Processes (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · China (10 works) · Natural resource economics (9 works) · Sustainability (9 works)