Wei's Research

Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.

Selected Publications


Here presents recent publications related to the GLUES project, both with or without peer-review.

Peer-review

Urban sector land use metabolism reveals inequalities across cities and inverse virtual land flows

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

In large cities, we know about virtual land use for crops, but what about non-agricultural products driving urban economies? ✨ Through a novel full sector inventory, we unveils urban land use and its impact on economy, exposing inequalities among cities in resource input and environmental benefits.

Estimation of entity‐level land use and its application in urban sectoral land use footprint: A bottom‐up model with emerging geospatial data

Journal of Industrial Ecology

We developed a bottom-up model to estimate the entity-level land use in urban areas, and utilized it to generate a spatial-explicit full-sector land use inventory in a mega-city.

Non peer-reviewed

Ecological network analysis of urban land resource use within China

IIASA-YSSP report

Applying system analysis and ecological network analysis to explore the input of land resources and virtual flows among full economic sectors with in China