PERSONAL PROFILE

Honglin Zhongreceived his Ph.D. degreefromUniversityof Maryland, United States. He is currently a professor at the Institute of Blue and Green Development, Shandong University, and was the visiting scholar at the International Institute of the Applied Systems Analysis, Austria. His researchis founded by the Taishan Scholar Program (Youth) of Shandong Province. His research interests primarilyfocuson thefood system sustainable development under future socio-economic and climate change scenarios, includingsustainable low-carbon agricultural system, global food trade and supply chains and the related food security. He has published over30 papers in peer-reviewed journals, includingNature Sustainability,NatureFood, andPNAS-nexus. His studies have received citations fromtopjournals such asNatureSustainability. He serves as the PI or Co-PI forfiveresearch projects funded by theNational Science Foundation of China(National and Shandong Province),the National Social Science Foundation of China(Major and Key projects),the Ministry of Science and Technology(Qinghai) and the Inter-American Development Bank. He serves as an editorial board member forFrontiers of Earth Sciences andmanypolicy reports have received positive feedback and commendations from leaders of theCentral and the local (Shandong, Qinghai) Governments.

Publication

[1] Peipei Tian; Kuishuang Feng; Heran Zheng*; Klaus Hubacek; Jiashuo Li;Honglin Zhong*; Xiangjie Chen; Laixiang Sun*; Implementation of carbon pricing in an aging world calls for targeted protection schemes. PNAS Nexus, 2023, 2(7), DOI:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad209

[2] Yanxian Li,Honglin Zhong, Yuli Shan*, Ye Hang, Dan Wang, Yannan Zhou, and Klaus Hubacek*. 2023. Changes in global food consumption increase GHG emissions despite efficiency gains along global supply chains, Nature Food, 4: 483-95.

[3]Benedikt Bruckner; Yuli Shan*; Christina Prell*; Yannan Zhou;Honglin Zhong; Kuishuang Feng; Klaus Hubacek*; Ecologically unequal exchanges driven by EU consumption. Nature Sustainability, 2023, 6:587-598.

[4] Bruckner Benedikt; Klaus Hubacek*; Yuli Shan*;Honglin Zhong; Kuishuang Feng; Impacts of Poverty Alleviation on National and Global Carbon Emissions. Nature Sustainability, 2022, 5(4): 311-320.

[5]Honglin Zhong; Kuishuang Feng*; Laixiang Sun; Zhan Tian; Gunther Fischer; Li Cheng; Raul Munoz Castillo; Water-land tradeoffs to meet future demands for sugar crops in Latin America and the Caribbean: A bio-physical and socio-economic nexus perspective, Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 2021, 169: 105510.

[6]Honglin Zhong; Kuishuang Feng*; Laixiang Sun; Li Cheng; Klaus Hubacek; Household Carbon and Energy Inequality in Latin American and Caribbean Countries, Journal of Environmental Management, 2020, 273: 110979.

[7]Honglin Zhong; Laixiang Sun*; Guenther Fischer; Zhan Tian; Zhuoran Liang; Optimizing regional cropping systems with a dynamic adaptation strategy for water sustainable agriculture in the Hebei Plain, Agricultural Systems, 2019, 173: 94-106.

[8]Honglin Zhong; Laixiang Sun*; Gunther Fischer; Zhan Tian; Harrij van Velthuizen; Zhuoran Liang; Mission Impossible? Maintaining regional grain production level and recovering local groundwater table by cropping system adaptation across the North China Plain, Agricultural Water Management, 2017, 193: 1-12.