PERSONAL PROFILE

Professor Xu Zhao specializes inwater resources accounting and management, industrialecology, input-output modelling,water footprint and virtual water, and food- energy-water nexus. He has published47peer-reviewed papers in prestigious SCI/SSCI journals, including PNAS, ES&T,EI,and WRR. He is serving asanAssociate Editorin Environmental Economics and Management of Frontiers in Environmental Science. ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7461-852X

Publication (selected)

1.Zhao, X., Liu, J., Liu, Q., Tillotson, M.R., Guan, D., Hubacek, K., 2015. Physical and virtual water transfers for regional water stress alleviation in China.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)112(4), 1031-1035.

2.Zhao, X.*, Hou, S., Zhang, X., Hubacek, K., Tillotson, M.R., Liu, Y., Liu, J. 2023. Revealing trade potential for reversing regional freshwater boundary exceedance.Environmental Science &Technology. 57,11520-11530.

3.Hou, S.,Zhao, X.*, Liu, Y., Tillotson, M.R., Weng, S., Wang, H., Li, Y., Liu, B., Feng, K., Zhang, N., 2022. Spatial analysis connects excess water pollution discharge, industrial production, and consumption at the sectoral level.npj Clean Water5, 4.

4.Zhao, X.Liu, J., Yang, H., Duarte, R., Tillotson, M.R., Hubacek, K., 2016. Burden shifting of water quantity and quality stress from megacity Shanghai.Water Resources Research.52(9),6916-6927

5.Guo,W,Zhang,X.,Yue,J.,Gao,Y.,Tillotson,M. R.,Zhao, X.*, 2024.Nasal filter reveal exposure risks of inhalable particulates and heavy metals in urban women.Environment International 2024 Vol. 188

6.Mpiya Kapalata Frederic, Xinyu Guo,Xu Zhao*，Harold Lyonel Feukam Nzudie, Martin R. Tillotson,Ya Zhou, Yiping Li, 2023. Evaluating the water footprint and nutritional quality of takeaway dishes for selected large cities in China.Science of the Total Environment911, 168632.

7.Shen,C., Hao, X.,An,D., Tillotson, M.R., Yang, L.,Zhao, X.*, 2023. Unveiling the potential for artificial upwelling in algae derived carbon sink and nutrient mitigation.Science of the Total Environment905, 167150.

8.Zhang, S.,Zhao, X.*, Feng, K.*, Hu, Y., Tillotson, M.R., Yang, L., 2022. Do mariculture products offer better environment and nutritional choices compared to land-based protein products in China? Journal of Cleaner Production 372, 133697.

9.Zhao, X., Liao, X. *, Zhang, C., Zhang, X.*,Mao, G., Zhang, S., Tillotson, M.R., 2021. Unveiling the dynamic of water-electricity conflict within and beyond megacity boundary.Journal of Environmental Management286.

10.Zhang, Q.* Smith, K.,Zhao, X.*Jin, X., Wang, S., Shen, J., Ren, Z.J.,2021. Greenhouse gas emissions associated with urban water infrastructure: What we have learnt from China's practice.WIREs Water.e1529

11.Feukam Nzudie,H. L.,Zhao, X.*,Liu, G.,Tillotson, M.R., Hou, S., Li, Y., 2021. Driving force analysis for food loss changes in Cameroon.Journalof Cleaner Production.278,123892.

12.Liao, X.,Zhao, X.*, Liu, W., Li, R., Wang, X., Wang, W., Tillotson, M.R., 2020. Comparing water footprint and water scarcity footprint of energy demand in China’s six megacities.Applied Energy269, 115137.

13.Zhang, X.,Zhao, X.*, Li, R., Mao, G., Tillotson, M.R., Liao, X., Zhang, C., Yi, Y., 2020. Evaluating the vulnerability of physical and virtual water resource networks in China's megacities.Resources, Conservation and Recycling161, 104972.

14.Feukam Nzudie, H.L.,Zhao, X.*, Tillotson, M.R., Zhang, F., Li, Y.*, 2020. Modelling and forecasting roots & tubers losses and resulting water losses in sub-Saharan Africa considering climate variables.Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 102952.

15.Zhao, X.*, Liao, X., Chen, B., Tillotson, M.R., Guo, W., Li, Y., 2019. Accounting global grey water footprint from both consumption and production perspectives.Journal of Cleaner Production. 225, 963-971.

16.Zhao, X.*, Jin, X., Guo, W., Zhang, C., Shan, Y.L., Du, M.X., Tillotson, M.R., Yang, H., Liao, X., Li, Y.P., 2019. China’s urban methane emissions from municipal wastewater treatment plant.Earth’s Future. 7, 480-490.https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EF001113.

17.Zhang, X., Liu, J.,Zhao, X. *,Yang, H., Deng, X., Jiang, X., Li, Y., 2019. Linking physical water consumption with virtual water consumption: Methodology, application and implications.Journal of Cleaner Production228, 1206-1217.

18.Liao, X.,Zhao, X.*, Jiang, Y., Liu, Y., Yi, Y., Tillotson, M.R., 2019. Water footprint of the energy sector in China’s two megalopolises.Ecological Modelling391, 9-15.

19.Liao, X.,Zhao, X.*, Hall, J.W., Guan, D., 2018. Categorising virtual water transfers through China’s electric power sector.Applied Energy226, 252-260.

20.Zhao, X.*, Li, Y., Yang, H., Liu, W.F., Tillotson, M.R., Guan, D., Yi, Y., Wang, H., 2018. Measuring scarce water saving from interregional virtual water flows in China.Environmental Research Letters13, 054012.

21.Liu, J.,Zhao, X.^#*, Yang, H., Liu, Q., Xiao, H., Cheng, G., 2018. Assessing China's “developing a water-saving society” policy at a river basin level: A structural decomposition analysis approach.Journal Cleaner Production190, 799-808. (co-first author)

22.Hou, S., Liu, Y.,Zhao, X.*, Tillotson, M., Guo, W., Li, Y., 2018. Blue and Green Water Footprint Assessment for China—A Multi-Region Input–Output Approach.Sustainability10, 2822.

23.Zhao, X.*,Tillotson, M.R. Liu, Y.W., Guo, W. Yang, A.H., Li, Y.F. 2017. Indexdecomposition analysis of urban crop water footprint. 348, 25-32.Ecological Modelling.

24.Zhao, X., Tillotson, M.R., Yang, Z., Yang, H., Liu, J. 2016 Reduction and reallocation of water use of products in Beijing.Ecological Indicators. 16,893-898.

25.Zhao, X., Yang, H., Yang, Z.F., Chen, B., Qin, Y., 2010. Applying the input-output method to account for water footprint and virtual water trade in the Haihe River basin in China.Environmental Science & Technology, 44(23), 9150-9156.

26.Zhao, X., Chen, B., Yang, Z.F., 2009. National water footprint in an input-output framework- A case study of China 2002.Ecological Modelling, 220(2), 245-253