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Will China Save the Planet? Book talk and discussion with Barbara Finamore

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The Harvard Law School Library, along with the Harvard-China Project, East Asian Legal Studies, and the HLS Environmental Law Society, recently co-hosted Barbara Finamore, senior attorney and Asia senior strategic director at the Natural Resources Defense...

China and Asia in a Changing Climate: Natural Science for the Non-Scientist

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Panelists: Professor John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University; Co-Director of Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, HKS...

Health Benefit of On-Road Vehicular Emissions Control Program in China

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Speaker: WANG Haikun WANG Haikun, Associate Professor, School of Environment, Nanjing University; Visiting Scholar Alumnus and Collaborator, Harvard-China Project Sponsored by China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Urban Spatial Structure and Travel in China

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Speaker: Lingqian (Ivy) Hu Lingqian (Ivy) Hu, Professor and Chair, Department of Urban Planning, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Abstract: This paper aims to critically review the literature on the relationship...

China Project Organized Harvard Undergrads to Conduct Summer Environmental Research in China

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A Harvard Gazette article by Al Powell A group of Harvard undergraduates spent the summer in China, working on solutions to an array of environmental problems ranging from examining ozone pollution’s effects on crops to analyzing household electricity...

Financial Times Cites Recent China Project Study Exploring Environmental Implications of Electric Vehicle Charging in China

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A Financial Times article examining the sometimes-ambiguous environmental benefits of electric vehicles in China, whose energy market has yet to fully transition out of being fossil fuel-dominated, cites the findings of a China Project study conducted...

China Project Spring 2018 Newsletter

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This spring the Harvard-China Project continued its investigations of the “China 2030/2050” theme sponsored by the Harvard Global Institute (HGI). Our community explored a number of pressing issues, including a Nature Energy paper on the environmental...

Environmental Impact of Electric Vehicles in China? It Depends on How They Are Charged

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China Project research offers a strategy for reducing CO 2 emissions and improving air quality with electric vehicles in Beijing Read the article in Nature Energy By Leah Burrows, SEAS Communications Electric vehicles play a key role in China’s plan to...

Global Power for Global Powers

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A Harvard Gazette Article By Clea Simon, Harvard Correspondent Watch the video here Experience at world’s largest utility company informs call for nations to share energy Liu Zhenya has a vision for revolutionizing not just how we produce energy, but also...

Q&A Session: China's Environmental Challenges 2018: Summer Undergraduate Research Assistantships in China

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Interested in researching in China this summer? Join Harvard-China Project staff and a participating Tsinghua University professor to learn more about our research assistantships opportunity. The Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy and Environment...

Bibliographic References tagged with Transportation and Urban Planning

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Junheng Yan, Jingran Zhang, Ruoxi Wu, Chris P. Nielsen, Ye Wu, Shaojun Zhang, and Michael B. McElroy. 2026. “Aviation As an Emerging Urban Air Quality Challenge in Megacities”. Environmental Science & Technology

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Liuhua Zhu, Fan Wang, Chris Nielsen, Gregory Carmichael, and Meng Gao. 2026. “Optimized Spatial Planning Offers a Dual Solution for Managing Urban Heat and Air Pollution in Humid Subtropical Climates”. Nature Communications

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ChengHe Guan, Haotian Zhong, Yichun Zhou, Ying Li, Bo Zhang, Zhibin Chen, Sumeeta Srinivasan, and Chris P. Nielsen. 2026. “Generational Differences in Active Travel: Estimation, Decomposition, and Policy Implications”. Applied Geography, 191, 103997

Jingran Zhang, Fang Wang, Zhao Jia Ting, Weiguo Dong, Shaojun Zhang, Ye Wu, Chris P. Nielsen, Ming Zhao, Jiming Hao, and Michael B. McElroy. 2025. “Powering Air Travel With Jet Fuel Derived from Municipal Solid Waste ”. Nature Sustainability

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Jingran Zhang, Jingnan Zhang, Junheng Yan, Chris P. Nielsen, Ye Wu, Jiming Hao, Shaojun Zhang, and Michael B McElroy. 2025. “Rising CO2 and Decarbonization Strategies of Aviation in China in the Coming Decade ”. Environmental Science & Technology , 59, 33, Pp. 17496–17506

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Sheng Liu, Meng Cai, Chao Ren, Guangzhao Chen, Chris P. Nielsen, and Holly Samuelson. 2025. “Urban Heat Island Impacts on Cooling Energy Demand of Residential Buildings at the City Scale: A Case Study of Hong Kong”. Energy, 332, 137165

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Lin Shi, Yiliang Jiang, Faan Chen, Kaiyi Zhu, Chris P. Nielsen, Yuejiao Wang, Fang Tian, Jiaorong Wu, and Xiaohong Chen. 2025. “Built Environment, Car Ownership and PM2.5: Stronger Causal Estimates from a Quasi-Experiment”. Journal of Transport Geography, 127, 104301

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Yang Zhao, Xinyu Chen, Peng Liu, Chris P Nielsen, and Michael B McElroy. 2025. “Future Ultrafast Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles in China: Charging Patterns, Load Impacts and Solutions, and Upgrade Costs”. Engineering, 48, May 2025

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Saiwen Zhang, Yiliang Jiang, Shaojun Zhang, and Ernani Choma. 2024. “Health Benefits of Vehicle Electrification through Air Pollution in Shanghai, China”. Science of The Total Environment, 914, 1 March 2024, Pp. 169859

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Faan Chen, Yaxin Li, Qianqian Feng, Zehao Dong, Yiming Qian, Yi Yan, Mun S. Ho, Qianchen Ma, Dashan Zhang, and Yuanzhe Jin. 2023. “Road Safety Performance Rating through PSI-PRIDIT: A Planning Tool for Designing Policies and Identifying Best Practices for EAS Countries”. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

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