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1 Kuishuang Feng Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park Tel: Personal Information Education 10/ / / / / / / /2003 University of Leeds, Leeds, UK PhD in Ecological Economics University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Master of Research For Sustainability (MRes): Ecological Economics University of Leeds, Leeds, UK BA Environmental Management with Environmental Science Heilongjiang University, China BSc Environmental Science Appointments 01/ present 09/ / / / / / / / / /2008 Research Associate (full-time), Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, United States. Research Fellow (part-time), Stockholm Environment Institute York, University of York, UK. Research Assistant (part-time), School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Assessing Regional Virtual Water Flows in Yellow River Basin, China funded by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI)/CGIAR (PI: K. Hubacek). Exam office supervisor (part-time), University of Leeds, role involves supervising Invigilators and Chief Invigilator, preparing exam script books and related materials, checking exam papers, and helping with any exam related issues. Research Assistant (part-time), School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Rural Economy and Land Use Programme (RELU), Scoping study to investigate drivers of rural land use change in the UK (PI: K. Hubacek) funded by UK Research Councils (ESRC, NERC, BBSRC). Research Assistant (part-time), Activity related carbon dioxide emissions project (ARCaDE) funded by University of Leeds, Assessing carbon footprints for teaching related activities.

2 01/ /2008 Research Assistant (part-time), School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Global scale impacts of climate change, characterizing regions vulnerable to drought (PI: E.D.G. Fraser). Research, Scholarly and Creative Activities Book chapters Yu, Y., Feng, K., Hubacek, K. (forthcoming), Consumption-based inventory of global land use, in: Murray, J., Cawthorne, G., Dey, C., Andrew, C., Enough for All Forever: A Handbook for Learning about Sustainability. Common Ground publishing on Sustainability. Feng, K., Hubacek, K. (forthcoming), The supply chain of CO 2 emissions in China: a multi-regional input-output analysis, in: Murray, J., Cawthorne, G., Dey, C., Andrew, C., Enough for All Forever: A Handbook for Learning about Sustainability. Common Ground publishing on Sustainability. Fraser, E.D.G., Termansen, M., Sun, N. Guan, D. Dodds, P., Feng, K., Yu, Y. (2007). "Using past climate variability to understand how food systems are resilient to future climate change" In Sustainable Food Production and Ethics. W. Zollitsch, C. Winckler, S. Waiblinger, and A. Haslberger (Eds.). Wageningen Academic Publishers. The Netherlands. Articles in Referred Journals. Published Feng, K., Siu, Y.L., Guan, D., Hubacek, K., (In press), Analyzing drivers of regional CO 2 emissions for China: A structural decomposition analysis, Journal of Industrial Ecology. [IF * = 2.085] Li, X., Feng, K., Siu, Y.L., Hubacek, K., (2012), Energy-Water nexus of wind power in China: The balancing act between CO2 emissions and water consumption, Energy Policy 45, pages [IF = 2.723] Hubacek, K., Feng, K., Chen, B., (2012), Changing lifestyles towards a low carbon economy: an IPAT analysis for China, Energies 5, pages [IF = 1.865] Feng, K., Chapagain, A., Suh, S., Pfister, S. Hubacek, K., (2011), Comparison of Bottom-up and Topdown Approaches to Calculating the Water Footprints of Nations, Economic Systems Research 23 (4), pages [IF = 2.429] Feng, K., Siu, Y.L., Guan, D., Hubacek, K., (2011), Assessing regional virtual water flows and water footprints in the Yellow River Basin, China, Applied Geography 32(2), pages [IF = 3.082] Wiedmann, T., Suh, S., Feng, K., Lenzen, M., Acquaye, A., Scott, K., Barrett, J., (2011), Application of Hybrid Life Cycle Approaches to emerging energy technologies The case of wind power in the UK, Environmental Science & Technology 45(13), pages [IF = 5.228] Acquaye, A., Wiedmann, T., Feng, K., Crawford, R., Barrett, J., Kuylenstierna, J., Duffy, A., Koh, S.C.L., Mcqueen-Mason, S., (2011), Identification of Carbon Hot-Spots and Quantification of GHG * Citation Impact factors (IF) of journals taken from Web of Science, 2011

3 Intensities in the Biodiesel Supply Chain using Structural Path Analysis in a Hybrid LCA, Environmental Science & Technology 45(6), pages [IF = 5.228] Feng, K., Hubacek, K., Minx, J., Siu, Y.L., Chapagain, A., Yu, Y., Guan, D., Barrett, J. (2011), Spatially explicit analysis of water footprints in the UK, Water 3, pages Feng, K., Hubacek, K., Guan, D., Contestabile, M., Minx, J., Barrett, J., (2010), Distributional Effects of Climate Change Taxation: a case study of UK, Environmental Science & Technology 40, pages [IF = 5.228] Yu, Y., Hubacek, K., Feng, K., Guan, D., (2010), Assessing regional and global water footprints for the UK, Ecological Economics 69, pages [IF = 2.713] Feng, K., Hubacek, K., Guan, D., (2009), Lifestyles, technology and CO2 emissions in China: a Regional Comparative Analysis, Ecological Economics 69, pages [IF = 2.713] Fraser, E.D.G., Termansen, M., Sun, N., Guan, D. Dodds, P., Feng, K., Yu, Y., (2008). "Quantifying socio-economic characteristics of drought-sensitive regions: evidence from Chinese provincial agricultural data " Comptes Rendus GeoScience 340: pages [IF = 1.725] Under review or in preparation Feng, K., Li, X., Siu, Y.L., Hubacek, K., (Accepted pending revision), China s Energy-water nexus: An integrated hybrid LCA of electricity generation technologies, Nature Climate Change. Li, X., Feng, K., Siu, Y.L., Hubacek, K., (Under review), Challenges faced when energy meets water: CO2 and water implications of power generation in the northern regions of China, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. [IF = 6.018] Yu, Y., Feng, K., Hubacek, K., (In preparation), tele-connecting local consumption to global land use, Nature Geoscience. [IF = ] Prell, C., Feng, K., Geores, M., Sun, L., Hubacek, K., (In preparation), Air pollution and world systems: the environmental and economic impacts of iconic U.S., Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences. [IF = 9.681] Prell, C., Kerschner, C., Feng, K., Hubacek, K., (In preparation), Economic vulnerability to Peak Oil, Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences. [IF = 9.681] Feng, K., Li, X., Sun, L., Liu, Z., Guan, D., Hubacek, K., (In preparation), Regional inequality and CO2 emissions in China, Nature Climate Change Talks, Abstracts and Other Professional Papers Presented. Invited talks Distributional effects of climate change taxation: the case study of the UK, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, Sep

4 The role of infrastructure in meeting UK climate change targets. Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, Nov Conference Papers Feng, K., Li, X., Sun, L., Hubacek, K., (2012), Regional Inequality and CO2 emissions in China: a consumption-based MRIO approach, The 20 th International Input-output Conference, Bratislava, Slovakia. Li, X., Feng, K., Siu, Y.L., Hubacek, K., (2012), Challenges faced when energy meets water: water implications of power generation in the northern regions of China, The 20 th International Input-output Conference, Bratislava, Slovakia. Feng, K., Hubacek, K., Suh, S., Minx, J., Pfister, S., (2011), A multi-region input-output analysis of global virtual water flows, The 19 th International Input-output Conference, Alexandria, United States. Feng, K., Barrett, J., Wiedmann, T., Hubacek, K., Minx, J., Scott, K., (2010), The role of infrastructure in meeting UK climate change targets, The 18 th International Input-Output Conference, Sydney, Australia. Wiedmann, T., Scott, K., Feng, K., Lenzen, M., Barrett, J., (2010), Hybrid methods for incorporating changes in energy technologies in an input-output framework, The 18 th International Input-Output Conference, Sydney, Australia. Feng, K, Hubacek, K., Siu, Y., Termansen, M., Kirkby, M., Irvine, B., (2008), Full Biophysical and Socio-economic Carbon Accounting for the UK, European Geosciences Union, General Assembly 2008, Vienna, Austria. Yu, Y., Hubacek, K., Guan, D., Feng, K., (2007), Construction and Application of Regional Input- Output Models: Comparative analysis of Water Consumption in Southeast and Northeast of England, The 16 th International Input-output Conference, Istanbul, Turkey. Contracts and Grants. 10/ / / / / /2009 Prizes Human Water Security, Infrastructure Planning and Environmental Trade-offs in Africa funded by the World Bank, (Total 7,500 USD, Co-investigator) Automatization of the national water footprint accounting tool using MATLAB funded by World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) UK (Total 30,000 USD, Co-investigator) Distributional effects of climate change taxation: the case study of UK funded by World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) UK (Total 32,000 USD, Co-investigator) 2011 Postgraduate Researcher Publication Prize, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds.

5 Reviewing Activities for Journals and Other Learned Publications. Ecological Economics Energy Policy Journal of Regional Science Water Resource Management Environmental Science and Technology Economic Systems Research Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Environmental Research Letters Industrial Ecology Bioresource Technology Journal of Cleaner production Population and Environment Teaching, Mentoring and Advising 01/ present Undergraduate courses, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland College Park. GEOG498 Conceptualizing and Modeling Human Environmental Interactions 01/ / / / /2007 Exam office supervisor, role involves supervising Invigilators and Chief Invigilator, preparing exam script books and related materials, checking exam papers, and helping with any exam related issues. Tutoring in a wide variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses at School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds: Undergraduate courses Environment and Ecology Mathematics for Earth and Environmental Science Learning, Communication and Decision Making Skills Water Quality in Urban Catchments Water Resources People and Plants Postgraduate courses Tools and Applications in Ecological Economics Numerical Methods and Statistics Tutoring of Sustainable Woodland Management fieldtrip in Townclose Hills, Local Nature Reserve, Leeds City Council.

6 10/2007 Tutoring of Sustainable Woodland Management fieldtrip in Breary Marsh, Local Nature Reserve, Leeds City Council. Services Reviewing activities for agencies U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Panelist for research grants. Intergovernmental Panel on climate Change (IPCC), expert reviewer for the Working Group (WG) III contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5).

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