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"Nature Communications" published latest research progress from Institute of Urban Environment, CAS
Contacts:CHEN Weiqiang
E-mail：wqchen@iue.ac.cn
link1:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22245-6Steel is the most used metal in our modern world, but its production is highly energy- and carbon- intensive. To achieve a carbon-neutral and climate-safe future, there is a need for reaching net-zero emissions by around 2050 and net negative emissions thereafter for every sector including the steel industry. However, steel production, together with other energy-intensive in...
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The Institute of Urban Environment makes progress in cross-disciplinary research on exploring obesity and environmental effects of sustainable food consumption
Contacts:CUI Shenghui
E-mail：shcui@iue.ac.cn
link1:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344920301233
link2:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348015014_The_cobenefits_for_food_carbon_footprint_and_overweight_and_obesity_from_dietary_adjustments_in_ChinaFood system is a complex system that affects human and environmental health, which relates to the realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals directly. Current food consumption led to heavy burden to residents’ health, and the improvement of nutrition-related diseases and chronic diseases through dietary adjustments has been put on the United Nations glo...
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The Institute of Urban Environment makes progress in cross-disciplinary research on coupling energy system and agriculture ecology
Contacts:LIN Jianyi
E-mail：jylin@iue.ac.cn
Article : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.116222Industrial sector accounts for 30% of global energy end-use, which is also be considered as a difficult-to-decarbonize sector. Therefore, system-thinking and comprehensive method are needed to decarbonize it. This research proposes a concept of eco-Industrial Energy System (e-IES) that coupling vegetation on industrial buildings’ rooftops with multi-energy systems. A mathem...
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Phosphorus recovery from wastewater: the unnegligible pervasion of antibiotic resistance
Contacts:YE Zhilong
E-mail：zlye@iue.ac.cn
Article : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115361Phosphorus is an essential nutrient for all lives. Phosphorus is involved in the process of material and energy transmission and storage in the biological organisms. Phosphorus exists in the phospholipid bilayer, which forms the basic skeleton of cell membrane. It is also an important component of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and RNA (ribonucleic acid), which are used by livi...
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Air pollution increases human health risks of PM2.5-bound PAHs and nitro-PAHs
Contacts:CHEN Jinsheng
E-mail：jschen@iue.ac.cn
Article :https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145402Air pollution due to fine particulates (PM2.5) is globally increasing the relative risk of mortality from cerebrovascular disease, lung cancers, and chronic respiratory diseases. However, an emerging challenge is to understand the relationship between active components of PM2.5 and human health. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) was considered as an essential toxic com...
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Urban Environment Institute makes progress in the development of urban energy resilience planning models
Contacts:LIN Jianyi
E-mail：jylin@iue.ac.cn
Article : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.116222More than 50% of the world's population lives in cities, and the end-use energy and emissions of cities account for more than 60% of global total amount. Therefore, the low-carbon transformation of urban energy is of great significance to the realization of global sustainable development. Meanwhile, facing of increasingly serious climate change and extreme weather events, it...
