The average American’s daily Calorie consumption increased from 2,168 in 1970 to 2,673 in 2008.
Ming Xu
Position:
Core Staff
Assistant Professor
Email:
mingxu@umich.edu
Website:
Office Location:
3006 Dana Building, 440 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1041
Degrees:
Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Arizona State University, '09
M.S., Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, '06
B.S., Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua University, '03
Research Interests:
He is interested in developing and applying interdisciplinary system-based analytical tools to understand complex sustainability issues. Tools developed and applied include industrial ecology approaches (e.g., environmental input-output analysis, life cycle analysis, material flow analysis) and complex systems modeling methods (e.g., agent-based modeling, complex network analysis). Systems he has been interested in studying include international trade, energy systems, and urban systems.
Projects:
- 2011 SG: Research Roadmap for Urban Sustainability
- Advancing the Science of Infrastructure Ecology by Exploring and Explaining Universal Regularities of Urban Sustainability Indicators
- Developing a Spatially-Explicit Agent-Based Life Cycle Analysis Framework for Improving the Environmental Sustainability of Bioenergy Systems
- Livable Communities through Sustainable Transportation: Integrated Assessment of Infrastructure Greening within Detroit for Improved Sustainable Transportation, Water Quality and Health
- U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center for Clean Vehicles (CERC-CVC)
Publications:
- Beyond life cycle analysis: Using an agent-based approach to model the emerging bio-energy industry
- CO2 emissions embodied in China's exports from 2002 to 2008: A structural decomposition analysis
- Dependence of wind energy on electric utility in the US
- Developing a Science of Infrastructure Ecology for Sustainable Urban Systems
- Infrastructure Ecology: A Conceptual Model For Understanding Urban Sustainability
- Input-Output Analysis For Infrastructure Ecology
- Water, energy, land use, transportation and socioeconomic nexus: A blue print for more sustainable urban systems
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Center for Sustainable Systems
School of Natural Resources and Environment
University of Michigan
3012 Dana Building
440 Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1041
Phone: (734) 764-1412
css.info@umich.edu