Position:
Research Fellow
Degrees:
Ph.D. Economics, Georgetown University, 2015
B.S. Mathematics & Physics, Tsinghua University, 2009
Research Interests:
Shen Qu is a Dow Sustainability Postdoctoral Fellow at SEAS of the University of Michigan. His current research focuses on how environmental risks may impact the global trade network. In particular, he combines tools of input-output analysis and network analysis to uncover the role of international trade in spreading and preventing environmental impacts.
Projects:
Publications:
- A Quasi-Input-Output model to improve the estimation of emission factors for purchased electricity from interconnected grids
- A Review on Energy, Environmental, and Sustainability Implications of Connected and Automated Vehicles
- Betweenness-Based Method to Identify Critical Transmission Sectors for Supply Chain Environmental Pressure Mitigation
- CO2 emissions embodied in interprovincial electricity transmissions in China
- Consumption-based human health impacts of primary PM2.5: The hidden burden of international trade
- Deriving hazardous material flow networks: a case study of lead in China
- Determinants of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Interconnected Grids in China
- Developing the Chinese Environmentally Extended Input-Output (CEEIO) Database
- Development and application of an energy use and CO2 emissions reduction evaluation model for China’s online car hailing services
- Estimating Missing Unit Process Data in Life Cycle Assessment Using a Similarity-based Approach
- Global Drivers of Russian Timber Harvest
- Greenhouse gas emission factors of purchased electricity from interconnected grids
- Income-based greenhouse gas emissions of nations
- Life Cycle Assessment of High Speed Rail in China
- Modeling domestic geographical transfers of toxic substances in WEEE: a case study of spent lead-acid batteries in China
- Post-consumer packaging waste from express delivery in China
- Quantifying the Urban Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus: The Case of the Detroit Metropolitan Area
- Quantifying the Urban Food–Energy–Water Nexus: The Case of the Detroit Metropolitan Area
- Regional water footprints and interregional virtual water transfers in China
- Scale, distribution and variations of global greenhouse gas emissions driven by U.S. households
- Scaling of Global Input-Output Networks
- Socioeconomic Drivers of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States
- The Disposal and Willingness to Pay for Residents' Scrap Fluorescent Lamps in China: A Case Study of Beijing
- Virtual CO2 emission flows in the global electricity trade network
- Virtual water scarcity risk to global trade under climate change