Publications
Journal Articles
A list of journal articles published by CSIS members, including 3 cover stories in Nature, 24 appearances in Science, and 17 in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America).
Books and Book Chapters
Selected books (edited books) and book chapters published by CSIS members.
Publications
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NATURE GEOSCIENCE - Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 2010
Published on July 19, 2024
We present a material flow analysis of sand from 1995 to 2020 that shows China’s overall sand supply surged by approximately 400% over the study period. -
HELIYON - Heterogeneous and interactive effects of payments for ecosystem services on household income across giant panda nature reserves
Published on July 19, 2024
This study used linear regression and geographic detector analysis to evaluate the effects of the NFCP and GTGP on household income and the factors which moderate these effects. -
THE INNOVATION GEOSCIENCE - Innovations in science, technology, engineering, and policy (iSTEP) for addressing environmental issues towards sustainable development
Published on July 17, 2024
The evolution of sustainability science reviewed. iSTEP is addressing key environmental issues towards sustainable development outlined. Future perspectives on iSTEP for promoting sustainable development are proposed. -
NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION - Gaps and opportunities in modelling human influence on species distributions in the Anthropocene
Published on June 12, 2024
We show considerable gaps in including human predictors to understand current and future species distributions in the Anthropocene, opening opportunities for new inquiries -
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION - Field experiment reveals complex warming impacts on giant pandas' bamboo diet
Published on June 1, 2024
We conducted the first field experiment in giant panda habitats to assess the impacts of warmer temperatures on the population dynamics and dietary quality of arrow bamboo, a main food source of giant pandas. -
AMBIO - Mammal recovery inside and outside terrestrial protected areas
Published on April 10, 2024
We conducted an analysis of 2706 mammal populations both inside and outside of protected areas worldwide to better understand how protected areas contribute to mammalian recovery. -
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY - Mining threats in high-level biodiversity conservation policies
Published on April 4, 2024
We investigated how high-level national and international biodiversity conservation policies address mining threats, with a special focus on construction minerals. -
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT - Global hidden spillover effects among concurrent green initiatives
Published on March 20, 2024
We collected empirical data and information about green initiatives from 15 sites or countries worldwide, and explored how specific policy, intended behaviors, and gains of given green initiative may interact with those of other green initiatives. -
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY - Telecoupled impacts of the Russia–Ukraine war on global cropland expansion and biodiversity
Published on March 1, 2024
We simulated the global cropland expansion provoked by the reshaping of international virtual cropland flows under different war scenarios and conducted a biodiversity impact assessment. -
RESOURCES, CONSERVATION & RECYCLING - Workable solutions for sustainably feeding the Chinese population
Published on March 1, 2024
We calculated the environmental costs of producing domestic rice, wheat, corn, soybeans, and imported soybeans. The environmental costs were enormous, and the food self-sufficiency and sufficiency (imported soybean included) rates were below 100%. -
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Pathways for achieving conservation targets under metacoupled anthropogenic disturbances
Published on February 27, 2024
We endeavored to model the connectivity between protected areas in rapidly urbanizing regions in China, drawing on insights from the framework of metacoupling based on connected corridors at short and long distances. -
NATURE - Triple win: Solar farms in deserts can boost power, incomes and ecosystems
Published on February 20, 2024
As land degradation becomes more severe (see Nature 623, 666; 2023), desert photovoltaics are a triple-win, fostering not only clean-energy generation but also ecosystem recovery and local poverty reduction. -
EARTH INTERACTIONS - Effects of payment for ecosystem services and tourism on conservation and development: trade-off or synergistic?
Published on February 13, 2024
We showed a trade-off between the ecological and economic effects of two PES programs, while synergistic effects exist in the ecological and economic benefits of tourism. -
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS - Global transboundary synergies and trade-offs among Sustainable Development Goals from an integrated sustainability perspective
Published on January 13, 2024
This study quantified the transboundary interactions between 768 pairs of SDG indicators. The results showed that high income countries comprised 14.18% of the global population, but contributed to total SDG interactions worldwide (60.60%). -
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION - Building smallholder-adapted climate-resilient systems: Evidence from China's apple farms
Published on January 5, 2024
We developed a smallholder-adapted climate-resilient system (SA-CRS) conceptual framework and applied this in an empirical assessment of the adaptation of smallholder apple farmers (SAFs) to the risk of low temperature during flowering (LTF) in China -
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY - Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses
Published on January 4, 2024
We identify commonly used sharing approaches, illustrate ten principles of translation and present a protocol involving key building blocks and control steps in translation. -
URSUS - Social network analysis uncovers hidden social complexity in giant pandas
Published on December 7, 2023
We employed noninvasive fecal genetic sampling to identify individuals of giant pandas, then used spatiotemporal proximity thresholds to infer scent mark–based association networks and conduct social network analyses of the population. -
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIODIVERSITY - Evaluation of ecosystem service policies from biophysical and social perspectives: The case of China
Published on December 1, 2023
The article highlights China's major large-scale ecosystem service policies: Nature Reserve System, Natural Forest Conservation Program, and Grain-to-Green Program. Overall, these programs have produced positive biophysical and socioeconomic effects. -
PNAS - Environmental impacts beyond land use and conservation risk hotspots: Coffee and tea
Published on November 20, 2023
Compared the production and consumption of coffee and tea, the most common beverages after water. -
ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY - Transboundary flows in the metacoupled Anthropocene: typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability
Published on September 20, 2023
We make the first attempt to develop a typology of transboundary flows using six flow attributes (i.e., type, magnitude, direction, distance, time, and mode) to advance metacoupling flow research and governance.