全职学者
单钰理 教授

单钰理,南京大学环境与健康研究院长聘教授,英国社会科学院院士,入选国家级海外领军人才项目。是全球高被引学者、英国皇家地理学会会士、《第五次气候变化国家评估报告》首席专家作者、IPCC评估报告作者。先后毕业于复旦大学、东英吉利大学(英),曾就职于伯明翰大学(英)、格罗宁根大学(荷)。

长期致力于多尺度温室气体放清单编制技术研发,共同创建中国碳排放数据库CEADs;深入开展气候变化减缓及区域可持续发展等交叉学科研究,促进气候变化治理效率与公平的系统性改进,为各级政府的“双碳”管理实践提供了数据支撑和理论依据。在CNS子刊、Science Bulletin、National Science Review等国内外顶级学术期刊发表SCI/SSCI论文200余篇。主持、参与英国皇家学会、英国研究与创新署、地平线欧洲计划、国家自然科学基金委员会等多项科研项目。获英国皇家气象学会影响力奖、德国绿色精英奖等学术荣誉30项。担任科学通报、Sustainable Futures、Scientific Data等期刊编辑,国际产业生态学会可持续城市分会理事等。

代表性学术论文

累计发表国际期刊论文200余篇。以下为代表性论文(* 为通讯作者)

1. Li, Y., Yan, J., He P., Pradhan, P., Fang, S., Shan, Y.*, Ruzzenenti, F., & Hubacke, K.*. Youth lead current dietary emissions while seniors increasingly drive total emission growth. Nature Food, 7, 688-700 (2026).

2. Zhang, H., Shan, Y.*, Li, R., Xue, R., Ma, J., Kikstra, J., Shi, Z., Wang, Z.*, Zhang, B., Wang, B., Fang, S., Yang, F., & Hubacek, K. Rising Air-Conditioning Use Intensifies Global Warming. Nature Communications, 17, 1961 (2026).

3. Wang, J., Wang, P.*, Hsu, S., He, P., Wu, Y., Ren F., Wang, Y., Chu, W., Bi, J., Huang, L.*, & Shan, Y. International trade reduces emissions through technology transfer led by key emitters. Nature Climate Change, 16, 451-459 (2026).

4. Tian, P., Feng, K.*, Chen, X., Li, D.*, Jiang, M., Li, J., Zheng, H., Shan, Y., & Sun, L.*. Consumption inequalities in material use undermining resources sustainability. Nature Sustainability, 9, 459-469 (2026).

5. Zhang, L., Bai, Z., Wang, X., Zhang, D., Olesen, J., Harrison, M., Bernacchi, C., Makowski, D., McDonald, A., Shi, S., Liu, K., Rezaei, E., Zheng, Q., Shan, Y., Chen, F., & Yin, X.*. Cultivar evolution underpins maize yield sensitivity to adverse climate conditions. Nature Communications, 17, 4528 (2026)

6. Zhang, N., Gao, X., Duan, H.*, Xiong, G., Yang, Z., Shan, Y., Xu, M., Yang, J., & Bai, X.*. China’s unfinished buildings have created stranded assets with substantial resource and socioeconomic costs, One Earth, 9, 5, 101649 (2026).

7. Shan, Y.*, Tian, K.*, Li, R., Guan, Y., Ou, J., Guan, D., & Hubacek, K.*. Global metahne footprints growth and drivers 1990-2023. Nature Communications, 16, 8184 (2025).

8. Guan, Y., Shan, Y.*, Hang, Y., Nie, Q., Liu, Y., & Hubacek, K.* Unlocking global carbon reduction potential by embracing low-carbon lifestyles. Nature Communications, 16: 4599 (2025).

9. Hou, S., Huo, J., Zhao, X.*, Wang, X., Zhang, X., Tillotson M., Meng, J.*, Shan, Y., Zhao, D, & Hubacek, K.*.Tracking grid-level freshwater boundary exceedance along global supply chains from consumption to impact. Nature Water, 3, 439-448 (2025).

10. Tian, K., Zhang, Y., Meng, J.*, Zhang, Z.*, Shan, Y., Zheng, H., Nie, X., & Yang, C.*. Leveraging multinational enterprises to reduce the escalating regional carbon inequality in China. Nature Communications, 16: 6603 (2025).

11. Li, Y., He, P., Shan, Y.*, Li, Y., Hang, Y., Shao, S., Ruzzenenti, F., & Hubacek, K.*. Reducing climate change impacts from the global food systems through diet shifts. Nature Climate Change, 14, 943-953 (2024).

12. Zhong, H., Li, Y., Ding, J., Bruckner, B., Feng, K.*, Sun, L.*, Prell, C., Shan, Y., & Hubacek, K.*. Global spillover effects of the European Green Deal and plausible mitigation options. Nature Sustainability, 7, 1501-1511 (2024).

13. Xia, C., Zheng, H.*, Meng, J., Shan, Y., Liang, X., Li, J., Yin, Z., Cheng, M., Du, P., & Wang, C. Outsourced carbon mitigation efforts of Chinese cities from 2012 to 2017. Nature Cities, 1, 480-488 (2024).

14. Zhang, N., Schiller, G., Azarijafari, H., Cao, Z., Xi, B., Shan, Y., Li, H., Duan, H.*, & Yang, J.*. Contribution of concrete nitrogenation to global NOx uptake. Nature Cities, 1, 457-468 (2024).

15. Bruckner, B., Shan, Y.*, Prell, C., Zhou, Y., Zhong, H., Feng, K., & Hubacek, K.* Ecologically unequal exchanges driven by EU consumption. Nature Sustainability, 6, 587-598 (2023).

16. Guan, Y., Yan, J., Shan, Y.*, Zhou, Y., Hang, Y., Li, R., Liu, Y., Liu, B., Nie, Q., Bruckner, B., Feng, K., & Hubacek, K.* Burden of the global energy price crisis on households. Nature Energy, 8, 304-316 (2023).

17. Li, Y., Zhong, H., Shan, Y.*, Hang, Y., Zhou, Y., & Hubacek, K.* Changes in global food consumption increase GHG emissions despite efficiency gains along global supply chains. Nature Food, 4, 483-495 (2023).

18. Ye, Q., Krol, M., Shan, Y.*, Schyns, J., Berger, M., & Hubacek, K.* Allocating capital-associated CO2 emissions along full lifespans of capital investments helps re-assessing emission responsibilities. Nature Communications, 14, 2727 (2023).

19. Zheng, H., Zhang, Z., Dietzenbacher, E., Zhou, Y., Többen, J., Feng, K., Moran D., Jiang, M., Shan, Y.*, Wang, D., Liu, X., Zhao, D., Meng, J.*, Ou, J., & Guan, D. Leveraging opportunity of low carbon transition by super-emitter cities in China. Science Bulletin, 68, 2456-2466 (2023).

20. Zhang, N., Duan, H.*, Shan, Y., Miller, T., Yang, J. & Bai, X.* Booming solar energy is encroaching on cropland. Nature Geosciences, 16, 932-934 (2023).

21. Cheng, D., Reiner, D., Yang, F., Cui, C., Meng, J., Shan, Y., Liu, Y., Tao, S., and Guan, D.*. Projecting future carbon emissions from cement production in developing countries. Nature Communications, 14: 8213 (2023).

22. Peng, K., Feng, K., Chen, B., Shan, Y., Zhang, N., Wang, P., Fang, K., Bai, Y., Zou, X., Wei, W., Geng, X., Zhang, Y. & Li, J.*. The global power sector’s low-carbon transition may enhance sustainable development goal achievement. Nature Communications 14: 3144 (2023).

23. Shan, Y., Guan, Y., Hang, Y., Zheng, H., Li, Y., Guan, D.*, Li, J., Zhou, Y., Li, L. & Hubacek, K. City-level emission peak and drivers in China. Science Bulletin 67, 1910-1920 (2022).

24. Bruckner, B., Hubacek, K.*, Shan, Y.*, Zhong, H. & Feng, K. Impacts of poverty alleviation on national and global carbon emissions. Nature Sustainability 5, 311-320 (2022).

25. Shan, Y., Ou, J., Wang, D.*, Zeng, Z., Zhang, S., Guan, D.* & Hubacek, K.*. Impacts of COVID-19 and fiscal stimuli on global emissions and the Paris Agreement. Nature Climate Change 11, 200-206 (2021).

26. Shan, Y.*, Fang, S., Cai, B.*, Zhou, Y.*, Li, D., Feng, K. & Hubacek, K.*. Chinese cities exhibit varying degrees of decoupling of economic growth and CO2 emissions between 2005 and 2015. One Earth 4, 124-134 (2021).

27. Lei, T., Guan, D.*, Shan, Y., Zheng, B., Liang, X., Meng, J., Zhang, Q. & Tao, S. Adaptive CO2 emissions mitigation strategies of global oil refineries in all age groups. One Earth 4, 1114-1126 (2021).

28. Zhou, Y., Shan, Y.*, Guan, D.*, Liang, X., Cai, Y.*, Liu, J., Xie, W., Xue, J., Ma, Z. & Yang, Z. Sharing tableware reduces waste generation, emissions and water consumption in China's takeaway packaging waste dilemma. Nature Food 1, 552-561 (2020).

29. Le Quere, C.*, Jackson, R. B., Jones, M. W., Smith, A. J. P., Abernethy, S., Andrew, R., De-Gol, A. J., Willis, D. R., Shan, Y., Canadell, J. G., Friedlingstein, P., Creutzig, F. & Peters, G. P. Temporary reduction in daily global CO2 emissions during the COVID-19 forced confinement. Nature Climate Change 10, 647-653 (2020).

30. Ou, J., Huang, Z., Klimont, Z.*, Jia, G., Zhang, S., Li, C., Meng, J., Mi, Z., Zheng, H., Shan, Y., Louie, P., Zheng, J.* & Guan, D.*. Role of export industries on ozone pollution and its precursors in China. Nature Communications 11, 5492 (2020).

31. Ou, J., Meng, J., Shan, Y., Zheng, H., Mi, Z. & Guan, D.*. Initial Declines in China's Provincial Energy Consumption and Their Drivers. Joule 3, 1163-1168 (2019).

32. Zheng, J., Mi, Z.*, Coffman, D., Shan, Y., Guan, D. & Wang, S.*. The Slowdown in China's Carbon Emissions Growth in the New Phase of Economic Development. One Earth 1, 240-253 (2019).

33. Zheng, H., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Z., Li, X., Shan, Y., Song, M., Mi, Z., Meng, J.*, Ou, J. & Guan, D.*. Mapping Carbon and Water Networks in the North China Urban Agglomeration. One Earth 1, 126-137 (2019).

34. Shan, Y., Guan, D.*, Hubacek, K., Zheng, B., Davis, S. J.*, Jia, L., Liu, J., Liu, Z., Fromer, N., Mi, Z., Meng, J., Deng, X., Li, Y.*, Lin, J., Schroeder, H., Weisz, H. & Schellnhuber, H. J. City-level climate change mitigation in China. Science Advances 4, eaaq0390 (2018).

35. Guan, D.*, Meng, J.*, Reiner, D., Zhang, N.*, Shan, Y., Mi, Z. F., Shao, S.*, Liu, Z., Zhang, Q. & Davis, S. J. Structural decline in China's CO2 emissions through transitions in industry and energy systems. Nature Geoscience 11, 551-555 (2018).

36. Mi, Z., Meng, J., Guan, D.*, Shan, Y., Song, M., Wei, Y., Liu, Z. & Hubacek, K. Chinese CO2 emission flows have reversed since the global financial crisis. Nature Communications 8, 1712 (2017).

 

主持的研究课题(部分)

1. 英国皇家学会—国家自然科学基金国际交流合作项目:中欧净零战略对区域大气汞污染的影响及协同应对策略,2026-2027年,项目负责人

2. 英国皇家学会—国家自然科学基金国际交流合作项目:优化净零转型的气候与空气质量协同效益,2023-2025年,项目负责人

3. 英国脱碳、适应性与韧性交通基础设施国家中心灵活资助项目:面向净零目标的英国适应性与气候韧性铁路经济影响研究,2025-2026年,项目负责人

4. 英国研究与创新署实现净零转型健康协同效益国家中心:净零住宅转型过程中的室内宜居性研究,2025-2030年,子课题负责人

5. 欧盟地平线欧洲计划—中国科技部国际合作项目:通过中欧合作构建工业脱碳与绿色经济发展路线图,2024-2027年,子课题负责人

6. 英国惠康基金会项目:面向G7国家健康协同效益的气候减缓政策解决方案——以健康为中心的净零系统方法及区域气候减缓政策转型,2023-2026年,子课题负责人

7. 国家自然科学基金重点项目:面向可持续发展目标的全球气候治理风险与韧性提升策略研究,2026-2030年,子课题负责人

8. 国家自然科学基金专项项目:支撑国家双碳战略的政策建模与策略研究——重点行业碳中和技术创新与碳减排激励机制研究,2023-2025年,子课题负责人

 

学术期刊编委(部分)

Sustainable Futures,共同主编

Science Bulletin,编委

Scientific Data,编委

Journal of Cleaner Production,副主编

Carbon Footprints,副主编

Geography and Sustainability,编委

Ÿ Advances in Climate Change Research,青年编委

 

学术/社会兼职(部分)

国际产业生态学会ISIE可持续城市分会理事(2024年至今)

政府间气候变化专门委员会IPCC第六次评估报告作者

《第五次气候变化国家评估报告》首席作者

全国投入产出与大数据研究会常务理事(2020-2025年)

英国财政部绿色金融战略提案咨询专家(2024年)

国家自然科学基金委员会、英国研究与创新署、欧洲研究理事会、瑞典可持续发展研究理事会、挪威研究理事会、香港研究资助局、新加坡科技研究局等项目评审专家

 

荣誉与奖励(部分)

英国社会科学院院士(2026年)

国家级海外领军人才项目入选者(2025年)

全球高被引学者(2020-2026年)

英国皇家地理学会会士(2024年)

英国皇家气象学会影响力奖(2026年)

德国绿色精英奖(2018年)

华人产业生态协会优秀新人奖(2019年)

伯明翰大学创始人奖——Florence Price杰出青年学者奖(2023年)

山东省社会科学优秀成果二等奖(2025年)

《能源与气候变化》期刊杰出贡献奖(2026年)

Science Bulletin优秀编委(2025年)

Carbon footprint优秀副主编(2025年)

Advances in Climate Change Research特别贡献编委(2025年)

 

联系方式

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工作单位:南京大学 环境与健康研究院

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