The sustainability of staple crops in China can be substantially improved through localized strategies

Mapping global carbon footprint in China

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Outlook of China's agriculture transforming from smallholder operation to sustainable production

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Degradation of river ecological quality in Tibet plateau with overgrazing: A quantitative assessment using biotic integrity index improved by random forest

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Impacts of irrigated agriculture on food–energy–water–CO2 nexus across metacoupled systems

(2020) Zhenci Xu et al.   Nature Communications

Closing yield gaps for rice self-sufficiency in China

(2019) Nanyan Deng et al.   Nature Communications

Assessing the efficiency and sustainability of wheat production systems in different climate zones in China using emergy analysis

(2019) Huan Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Effects of Spatial Scale on Life Cycle Inventory Results

(2019) Yi Yang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Quantifying the sustainability of three types of agricultural production in China: An emergy analysis with the integration of environmental pollution

(2019) Yue Su et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Emergy-based analysis of grain production and trade in China during 2000–2015

(2018) Xiaolong Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Pursuing sustainable productivity with millions of smallholder farmers

(2018) Zhenling Cui et al.   NATURE

Toward sustainable crop production in China: An emergy-based evaluation

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Small-scale urban agriculture results in high yields but requires judicious management of inputs to achieve sustainability

(2018) Robert McDougall et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cropland soils in China have a large potential for carbon sequestration based on literature survey

(2018) Fulu Tao et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Emergy analysis on industrial symbiosis of an industrial park – A case study of Hefei economic and technological development area

(2017) Yupeng Fan et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Nitrogen use efficiencies in Chinese agricultural systems and implications for food security and environmental protection

(2017) Baojing Gu et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Recent progress on emergy research: A bibliometric analysis

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An emergy evaluation of the sustainability of Chinese crop production system during 2000–2010

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Emergy assessment of global renewable sources

(2016) Mark T. Brown et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Can knowledge-based N management produce more staple grain with lower greenhouse gas emission and reactive nitrogen pollution? A meta-analysis

(2016) Longlong Xia et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Intensification of phosphorus cycling in China since the 1600s

(2016) Xin Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A review of emergy theory, its application and latest developments

(2016) Luís P. Amaral et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

What Is the Vulnerability of a Food System to Global Environmental Change?

(2016) Polly J. Ericksen   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Evidence for a Historic Change Occurring in China

(2015) Xuejun Liu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Machine learning for predicting soil classes in three semi-arid landscapes

(2015) Colby W. Brungard et al.   GEODERMA

Managing nitrogen for sustainable development

(2015) Xin Zhang et al.   NATURE

Integrated reactive nitrogen budgets and future trends in China

(2015) Baojing Gu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Addressing China's grand challenge of achieving food security while ensuring environmental sustainability

(2015) Y. Lu et al.   Science Advances

Producing more grain with lower environmental costs

(2014) Xinping Chen et al.   NATURE

Provincial level-based emergy evaluation of crop production system and development modes in China

(2013) Jin Tao et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

A projection of ozone-induced wheat production loss in China and India for the years 2000 and 2020 with exposure-based and flux-based approaches

(2013) Haoye Tang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Closing the yield gap could reduce projected greenhouse gas emissions: a case study of maize production in China

(2013) Zhenling Cui et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Enhanced nitrogen deposition over China

(2013) Xuejun Liu et al.   NATURE

New technologies reduce greenhouse gas emissions from nitrogenous fertilizer in China

(2013) W.-f. Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

China's Food Security Soiled by Contamination

(2013) Y. Liu et al.   SCIENCE

Transforming agriculture in China: From solely high yield to both high yield and high resource use efficiency

(2013) Jianbo Shen et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Multi-scale object-based image analysis and feature selection of multi-sensor earth observation imagery using random forests

(2012) Dennis C. Duro et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnation

(2012) Deepak K. Ray et al.   Nature Communications

Integrated soil-crop system management for food security

(2011) X.-P. Chen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Updated evaluation of exergy and emergy driving the geobiosphere: A review and refinement of the emergy baseline

(2010) Mark T. Brown et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

The impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in China

(2010) Shilong Piao et al.   NATURE

Water Shortages Loom as Northern China's Aquifers Are Sucked Dry

(2010) L. Jiao   SCIENCE

Significant Acidification in Major Chinese Croplands

(2010) J. H. Guo et al.   SCIENCE

Reducing environmental risk by improving N management in intensive Chinese agricultural systems

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