Profile
Dr Xudong Wu is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford. He is associated with the Oxford Programme for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems (OPSIS), working on the resilience of infrastructure and macroeconomic networks to climate hazards. He is also interested in modeling high-resolution global land-use and land-cover change and integrating these datasets with large-scale agricultural models such as Lund-Potsdam-Jena managed Land (LPJmL).
Before joining the Environmental Change Institute, Xudong worked as a Humboldt Fellow at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), where he used complexity modelling tools to investigate the propagation of disaster-induced losses across global supply chains, and as a senior scientist at Beijing Forestry University, where he led a group to develop fine-scale global land-use datasets and to assess the spatially explicit environmental footprint of shifting consumption patterns. Xudong holds a PhD in Fluid Mechanics from Peking University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Energy Engineering with a minor in Literature from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
Publications
- Dai KX, Cheng CX*, Li B, Xie Y, Gomez JA, Wang Z, Wu XD*, 2025. Mapping the harvest area of a comprehensive set of crop types in China from 1990 to 2020 at a 1-km resolution. Scientific Data 12, 1–15.
- Wang MR, Zhang TY, Xie YJ, Zhang ZQ, Wu XD*, 2025. Mapping accumulated carbon storage of global mangroves from 2000 to 2020 at a 1 km resolution. Scientific Data 12, 552.
- Ge ZM, Wang MR, Xie YJ, Wu XD*, 2025. Spatially explicit modeling of global tidal marsh accumulated carbon storage revealed its heterogeneous evolutionary patterns across world regions during 2001–2020. Journal of Environmental Management 387, 125630.
- Zou ZX, Cheng CX*, Song ZL, Wu XD*, 2025. Economic resilience of regions within the global supply network in the aftermath of disaster: A case study of Typhoon Mangkhut. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 118, 105275.
- Zhang TY, Wu XD*, Li CH, Cheng CX, 2024. Crop-specific emission projection suggests peaking of agricultural N2O by the middle century. Environmental Science & Technology 58, 22967–22979.
- Zou ZX, Li CH, Wu XD*, Meng Z, Cheng CX*, 2024. The effect of day-to-day temperature variability on agricultural productivity. Environmental Research Letters 19, 124046.
- Li CH*, Pradhan P, Wu XD, Li Z, Liu JY, Hubacek K, Chen GQ*, 2024. Livestock sector can threaten planetary boundaries without regionally differentiated strategies. Journal of Environmental Management 370, 122444.
- Cheng XL, Wu XD1, Guan CH, Sun XD, Zhang B*, 2023. Impacts of production structure changes on global CH4 emissions: Evidences from income-based accounting and decomposition analysis. Ecological Economics 213, 107967.
- Zhang TY, Cheng CX*, Wu XD*, 2023. Mapping the spatial heterogeneity of global land use and land cover from 2020 to 2100 at a 1 km resolution. Scientific Data 10, 748.
- Guo M, Cheng CX*, Wu XD*, 2023. Mapping the heterogeneity of global methane footprint in China at the subnational level. Journal of Environmental Management 345, 118479.
- Xu YM, Xie YJ, Wu XD*, Xie YT, Zhang TY, Zou ZX, Zhang RT, Zhang ZQ*, 2023. Evaluating temporal-spatial variations of wetland ecosystem service value in China during 1990–2020 from the donor side based on cosmic exergy. Journal of Cleaner Production 414, 137485.
- Ji X*, Su PY, Liu YF, Wu GG, Wu XD, 2023. Mutual complementarity of arable land use in the Sino-Africa trade: Evidence from the global supply chain. Land Use Policy 128, 106588.
- Li CH, Wu XD1, Chen K, Chen GQ*, 2022. Global pastureland use as reflected in inter-regional supply chain. Journal of Environmental Management 322, 116016.
- Wang X, Tian WJ, Guan, CH, Wu XD*, Sun XD, Zhang B*, 2022. Global temporal evolution of CH4 emissions via geo-economic integration. Journal of Environmental Management 305, 114377.
- Xie YJ, Zeng L, Wang P*, Wu XD*, Feng TJ, 2022. Water cost for water purification: Renewability assessment of a typical wastewater treatment plant in China. Journal of Cleaner Production 349, 131474.
- Wu XD, Li CH, Shao L, Meng J, Zhang LX*, Chen GQ*, 2021. Is solar power renewable and carbon-neutral: Evidence from a pilot solar tower plant in China under a systems view. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 138, 110655.
- Li CH, Wu XD1, Chen GQ*, Han MY, Chen K, Yangzong CZ, Lo Dan, Alsaedi A, Hayat T, 2021. Pastureland use of China: Accounting variations from different input-output analyses. Land Use Policy 109, 105597.
- Wu XD*, Li CH, Guo JL, Wu XF, Meng J, Chen GQ*, 2021. Extended carbon footprint and emission transfer of world regions: With both primary and intermediate inputs into account. Science of The Total Environment 775, 145578.
- Zhang Y, Wu XD*, Guan CH, Zhang B*, 2021. Methane emissions of major economies in 2014: A household-consumption-based perspective. Science of The Total Environment 768, 144523.
- Fan Y, Wu XD1, Shao L, Han MY, Chen B, Meng J, Wang P*, Chen GQ*, 2021. Can constructed wetlands be more land efficient than centralized wastewater treatment systems? A case study based on direct and indirect land use. Science of The Total Environment 770, 144841.
- Wu XD*, Shao L, Chen GQ*, Han MY, Chi YY, Yang Q, Alhodaly M, Wakeel M, 2021. Unveiling land footprint of solar power: A pilot solar tower project in China. Journal of Environmental Management 280, 111741.
- Wu XD*, Guo JL, Chen GQ*, Wu XF, Meng J, Alhodaly M, Wakeel M, 2021. Energy use flows in the supply chains of the world economy: A full account of both primary and intermediate inputs. Journal of Cleaner Production 320, 128621.
- Fan Y, Wu XD1, Wu XF, Li CH, Yang Q, Hayat T, Alsaedi A, Wang P*, Chen GQ*, 2020. A unified ecological assessment of a solar concentrating plant based on an integrated approach joining cosmic exergy analysis with ecological indicators. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 129, 109934.
- Ji X*, Liu YF, Meng J, Wu XD*, 2020. Global supply chain of biomass use and the shift of environmental welfare from primary exploiters to final consumers. Applied Energy 276, 115484.
- Wu XD, Guo JL, Li CH, Chen GQ*, Ji X, 2020. Carbon emissions embodied in the global supply chain: Intermediate and nal trade imbalances. Science of the Total Environment 707, 134670.
- Wu XD, Guo JL, Li CH, Shao L, Han MY, Chen GQ*, 2019. Global socio-hydrology: An overview of virtual water use by the world economy from source of exploitation to sink of final consumption. Journal of Hydrology 573, 794–810.
- Wu XD, Guo JL, Ji X, Chen GQ*, 2019. Energy use in world economy from household-consumption-based perspective. Energy Policy 127, 287-298.
- Chen GQ*, Wu XD*, Guo JL, Meng J, Li CH, 2019. Global overview for energy use of the world economy: Household-consumption-based accounting based on the world input-output database (WIOD). Energy Economics 81, 835–847.
- Wu XD, Guo JL, Meng J, Chen GQ*, 2019. Energy use by globalized economy: Total-consumption-based perspective via multi-region input-output accounting. Science of the Total Environment 662, 65–76.
- Wu XD, Ji X, Li CH, Xia XH, Chen GQ*, 2019. Water footprint of thermal power in China: Implications from the high amount of industrial water use by plant infrastructure of coal-fired generation system. Energy Policy 132, 452–461.
- Tian WJ, Wu XD, Zhao XL, Ma R, Zhang B*, 2019. Quantifying global CH4 and N2O footprints. Journal of Environmental Management 251: 109566.
- Wu XD, Guo JL, Han MY, Chen GQ*, 2018. An overview of arable land use for the world economy: From source to sink via the global supply chain. Land Use Policy 76: 201-214. (Elsevier Atlas Award; See Elsevier news)
- Wu XD, Guo JL, Chen GQ*, 2018. The striking amount of carbon emissions by the construction stage of coal-fired power generation system in China. Energy Policy 117: 358-369.
- Wei WD, Wu XD1, Li JS*, Jiang X, Zhang P, Zhou SL, Zhu H, Liu H, Chen H, Guo JL, Chen GQ*, 2018. Ultra-high voltage network induced energy cost and carbon emissions. Journal of Cleaner Production 178: 276-292.
- Guo JL, Wu XD, Jiang WQ*, Chen GQ*, 2018. Contaminant transport from point source on water surface in open channel flow with bed absorption. Journal of Hydrology 561: 295-303.
- Wu XD, Chen GQ*, 2017. Energy and water nexus in power generation: The surprisingly high amount of industrial water use induced by solar power infrastructure in China. Applied Energy 195: 125-36.
- Wu XD, Yang Q, Chen GQ*, Hayat T, Alsaedi A, 2016. Progress and prospect of CCS in China: Using learning curve to assess the cost-viability of a 2×600MW retrofitted oxyfuel power plant as a case study. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 60: 1274-85.
- Wu XD, Xia XH, Chen GQ*, Wu XF, Chen B, 2016. Embodied energy analysis for coal-based power generation system-highlighting the role of indirect energy cost. Applied Energy 184: 936-50.
- Wu XF, Chen GQ*, Wu XD, Yang Q, Alsaedi A, Hayat T, Ahmad B, 2015. Renewability and sustainability of biogas system: Cosmic exergy based assessment for a case in China. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 51: 1509-24.
- Wang P*, Li Z*, Wu XD, An YR, 2015. Taylor dispersion in a packed pipe with wall reaction: Based on the method of Gill’s series solution. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 91, 89–97.