讲座简介

In today’s globalized world, national, regional, and local economies are deeply embedded in global supply-chains. Globally distributed production activities are key drivers behind environmental change imposing stress on ecosystems across spatial scales. To analyze those changes across global supply chains, we need integrated approaches that allow to better anticipate unintended consequences, assess co-benefits and trade-offs between different environmental resources over space and time as well as consideration of potential social and economic impacts of resource management decisions. An economy-wide systems approach such as multi-regional environmental input-output analysis does not only allow to illuminate these ultimate drivers within a region but also along global supply chains. In addition, this framework allows exploring socio-economic consequences and trade-offs. We will apply this framework to the topic of carbon inequality and show how to creatively link diverse datasets to estimate the effects of our consumption choices throughout global supply chains.

主讲人简介

Professor Klaus Hubacek is an ecological economist with a research focus on conceptualizing and modeling the interaction between human and environmental systems and developing and modeling scenarios of future change. Klaus has worked extensively with stakeholders in participatory research projects and led large interdisciplinary research teams. He has published more than 200 articles in journals, books and research reports on topics such as climate change adaptation and mitigation, participatory modelling, management of ecosystems services, land use change and governanceDr. Kuishuang Feng Associate Research Professorat University of Maryland College Park. Dr. Giovanni Baiocchi Associate Professor in Department of Geographical Sciences and Affiliate Associate Professor in Department of Economics at University of Maryland College Park.