Dr. Ying Xu

Research Fellow, Geography

yxu9@tcd.ie https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ying-Xu-63

Biography

Dr Xu has wide research interests in sustainable urbanism, smart and eco-city, platform urbanism, urban planning and governance, and environmental governance, especially in East Asia and European Cities. He got his PhD degree from Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., China. Before joining TCD, he worked as a post-doctoral research associate in the Geography department, Univerity of Exeter, UK. As an early-career researcher, Dr Xu has got multiple research funding from Post-graduate scholarship (CUHK) the Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence (CUHK), Zhongjian Dongfang Gao's Scholarship (CUHK), Ford Foundation (U.S.) and Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Germany). He has research experience on projects including: Eco-cities and Governing Socio-Nature in China, Citizenship and the Chinese smart city-social credit systems, Climate Change Initiatives and Chinese Cities, Growth Machines? Sustainable Communities? Values and Urban Fortunes in Chinese Cities.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Zhang, W. and Xu, Y. and Streets, D.G. and Wang, C., Can new-type urbanization realize low-carbon development? A spatiotemporal heterogeneous analysis in 288 cities and 18 urban agglomerations in China, Journal of Cleaner Production, 420, 2023Journal Article, 2023
Xu, Y. and Zhang, W. and Huo, T. and Streets, D.G. and Wang, C., Investigating the spatio-temporal influences of urbanization and other socioeconomic factors on city-level industrial NO_x emissions: A case study in China, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 99, 2023Journal Article, 2023
Zhang, W. and Wang, J. and Xu, Y. and Wang, C. and Streets, D.G., Analyzing the spatio-temporal variation of the CO₂ emissions from district heating systems with ?Coal-to-Gas? transition: Evidence from GTWR model and satellite data in China, Science of the Total Environment, 803, 2022Journal Article, 2022
Xu, Y. and Caprotti, F. and Zhang, W. and Pan, M., The socioenvironmental state and urban transitions: Eco-urbanism in China and the UK, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2022Journal Article, 2022
Xu, Y. and Zhang, W. and Wang, J. and Ji, S. and Wang, C. and Streets, D.G., Investigating the spatially heterogeneous impacts of urbanization on city-level industrial SO₂ emissions: Evidence from night-time light data in China, Ecological Indicators, 133, 2021Journal Article, 2021

Recent publication: [1] Xu, Ying, Caprotti, F.*, Zhang, W., & Pan, M., (2022) The socioenvironmental state and urban transitions: Eco-urbanism in China and the UK. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221132835. [2] Ying Xu*, Federico Caprotti, Crison Chien (2023) The Smartmentality of Urban Data Politics: Evidence from Two Chinese Cities. in Data Power in Action, Bristol University Press. (Book chapter forthcoming) [3] Zhang W, Xu Y*, Streets DG, et al. (2023) Can new-type urbanization realize low-carbon development? A spatiotemporal heterogeneous analysis in 288 cities and 18 urban agglomerations in China. Journal of Cleaner Production. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.138426. [4] Caprotti, F., Xu, Y. (2023). Plattform-Urbanismus im Übergang von Smart Cities zu autonomen Städten. In: Hardaker, S., Dannenberg, P. (eds) China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66560-2_27 (Book chapter, Smart cities in China: platform urbanism in the transition from the smart to autonomous cities) [5] Ying Xu, Weishi Zhang*, Can Wang, David G. Streets, (2023) Investigating the spatio-temporal influences of urbanization and other socioeconomic factors on city-level industrial NOx emissions: A case study in China. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2022.106998. [6] Ying Xu, Weishi Zhang, Jionghua Wang, Siping Ji, Can Wang, David G. Streets, (2021) Investigating the spatially heterogeneous impacts of urbanization on city-level industrial SO2 emissions: Evidence from night-time light data in China, Ecological Indicators, 133, 108430. [7] Ying Xu, Towards More Flourishing Environmental Wellbeing"Understand Eco-city from a Perspective of Urban Political Ecology, Hong Kong Geography Day 2018, HKGA (Best paper award) [8] W. Zhang1, Ying Xu*1, (2022). Assessment of the driving factors of CO2 mitigation costs of household biogas systems in China: A LMDI decomposition with cost analysis model, Renewable Energy, 181, 978-989. [9] Zhang, W., Wang, J.*, Xu, Y.*, Wang, C., & Streets, D. G., (2022). Analyzing the spatio-temporal variation of the CO2 emissions from district heating systems with "Coal-to-Gas" transition: Evidence from GTWR model and satellite data in China. Science of The Total Environment, 803, 150083.

Social Sciences, Economics, Law & Business, Environment (incl.) Climate Change,