Time: Friday ,6 November 15:00-16:30

Tencent Conference Number :449 781 091

Speaker:Qu Shen, Professor of Management Engineering, School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology

Speaker Profile:

Qu Shen, male, born in October 1986, winner of National excellent Youth Science Fund. He is currently working at the School of Management and Economics of Beijing Institute of Technology / Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research and Deputy Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.

The main research interests include economic assessment of environmental risks, energy-water-food linkages, and sustainable urban development. He has published over 40 papers so far, among them the first / correspondent author of more than 20 papers including Nature Communications, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Science &Technology, and Applied Energy.

Introduction:

Virtual water trade (and goods and services used by water resources for cross-regional flows) increases the efficiency of water use globally, but also leads to water-related trading system risks. Because of the transaction costs of water resources management, trade has exacerbated water shortages in areas already short of water, and climate change has complicated the situation. to assess the risks of water scarcity to the global trading system, we have developed a framework that integrates risk analysis, input-output economics, and complex network analysis, making full use of data on regional renewable water supply, sectoral water use, and multi-regional input-output trade structures. In the "hot spot" national sector, water shortages may cause significant losses to the global trading system. In addition, the risk of water shortage to the national economic system is revealed and decomposed according to the source. The research framework helps policy makers to understand the broader socio-economic impact of water resource disruption in the context of globalization (and de-globalization) and can serve as a basis for cross-regional negotiations and related economic choices.

(Host: Department of Management Engineering, Scientific Research and Academic Exchange Centre)