Climate change and human activities are considered to be the biggest threats and
challenges to crop productivity and increase water stress in agricultural systems. Water …

The water-energy nexus has gained great attention to both academe and practitioners in the
past decade. In order to help expand the understanding in this field, we conduct a …

Most of China's CO 2 emissions are related to energy consumption in its cities. Thus, cities
are critical for implementing China's carbon emissions mitigation policies. In this study, we …

Rapid urbanization and the expansion of metropolitan areas have resulted in severe
demands on water and energy resources, which threaten the sustainability of the urban …

The nexus between energy and water introduces cross-sectoral vulnerabilities, which
provides cross-cutting opportunities to mitigate urban energy and water demand pressure …

Socioeconomic development has led to increased consumption of both blue and green
water. Consequently, China is facing serious water scarcity issue. However, few studies …

Previous studies had shown that the virtual water flows had intensified local water scarcity of
China. There is an urgent need to identify the drivers of virtual water flows and provide the …

Industries become increasingly aware that they contribute directly and indirectly to water
scarcity and pollution, and that this constitutes a risk they have to respond to. Therefore, a …

Compiling, deploying and utilising large-scale databases that integrate environmental and
economic data have traditionally been labour-and cost-intensive processes, hindered by the …

Cities are leading carbon mitigation but are heterogeneous in their mitigation policies due to
different socioeconomic backgrounds. Given that cities are increasingly inextricably linked …