Xuemei Bai Explained

Xuemei Bai
Workplaces:CSIRO
Australian National University
Alma Mater:Peking University
University of Tokyo

Xuemei Bai (白雪梅) is a professor of Urban Environment and Human Ecology at the Australian National University. She was the winner of the 2018 Volvo Environmental Prize, and is an elected fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

Education and career

Bai was born and raised in China. She resided in Japan for many years, and is now a citizen in Australia.[1] She earned her bachelor's degree from Peking University (1988), her master's in engineering from The University of Tokyo (1990), and her Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo (1993).[2] [3]

From 1993 until 1998, Bai was a researcher at the Japanese Center for International Studies in Ecology,[4] and then she worked at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan until 2006. From 2001 until 2003, she was a visiting professor at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

In 2006, she joined CSIRO in Australia, and in 2011 she became a distinguished professor in the Fenner School of Environment and Society at Australian National University.

Research

Bai is known for her work in urban sustainability science and policy, including drivers and consequence of urbanization, structure, function, processes, and evolution of urban socio-ecological systems, urban metabolism, urban sustainability experiments and transition, cities and climate change, and urban environmental policy and governance, and cross-scale translations between planetary level boundaries and targets into cities.

Bai's early work studied the urban environment of East Asia[5] [6] and sustainability experiments in Asia.[7] [8] She has also examined the linkages between urbanization and economic growth,[9] human well-being,[10] and the environment.[11] More recently, she has characterized China's urbanization plan,[12] and defined future research plans for sustainable cities.[13] [14]

Selected publications

As of 2022, Bai has over 16,000 citations to her work at Google Scholar and an h-index of 47.[15]

Awards and honors

Bai was elected a fellow of Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2017.[16] She was the 2018 Laureate of the Volvo Environment Prize,[17] and was named one of the World's 100 Most Influential People in Climate Change Policy by Apolitical in 2019.[18] [19] In 2021, Bai received the Global Economy Prize from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.[20] [21]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Xuemei Bai of Future Earth Urban Knowledge Action Network awarded Volvo Environment Prize 2018 Future Earth. 2022-01-02. en-US.
  2. Web site: Director (Research Services Division). Distinguished Professor Xuemei Bai. 2020-12-16. researchers.anu.edu.au. en-US.
  3. Web site: ORCID. 2022-01-02. orcid.org.
  4. Web site: Academy Fellow: Professor Xuemei Bai. 2020-12-16. Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. en-AU.
  5. Bai. Xuemei. Imura. Hidefumi. 2001. Towards sustainable urban water resource management: a case study in Tianjin, China. Sustainable Development. en. 9. 1. 24–35. 10.1002/sd.149. 1099-1719.
  6. Bai. Xuemei. 2007. Integrating Global Environmental Concerns into Urban Management: The Scale and Readiness Arguments. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 11. 2. 15–29. 10.1162/jie.2007.1202. 154978331. 1088-1980.
  7. Bai. Xuemei. Roberts. Brian. Chen. Jing. 2010-06-01. Urban sustainability experiments in Asia: patterns and pathways. Environmental Science & Policy. Socio-technical experiments in Asia – a driver for sustainability transition?. en. 13. 4. 312–325. 10.1016/j.envsci.2010.03.011. 1462-9011.
  8. Berkhout. Frans. Verbong. Geert. Wieczorek. Anna J.. Raven. Rob. Lebel. Louis. Bai. Xuemei. 2010. Sustainability experiments in Asia: innovations shaping alternative development pathways?. Environmental Science & Policy. en. 13. 4. 261–271. 10.1016/j.envsci.2010.03.010.
  9. Bai. Xuemei. Chen. Jing. Shi. Peijun. 2012-01-03. Landscape Urbanization and Economic Growth in China: Positive Feedbacks and Sustainability Dilemmas. Environmental Science & Technology. 46. 1. 132–139. 10.1021/es202329f. 0013-936X. 3251221. 22103244. 2012EnST...46..132B.
  10. Bai. Xuemei. Nath. Indira. Capon. Anthony. Hasan. Nordin. Jaron. Dov. 2012-10-01. Health and wellbeing in the changing urban environment: complex challenges, scientific responses, and the way forward. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. Human settlements and industrial systems. en. 4. 4. 465–472. 10.1016/j.cosust.2012.09.009. 2012COES....4..465B . 1877-3435. free.
  11. Bai. Xuemei. McPhearson. Timon. Cleugh. Helen. Nagendra. Harini. Tong. Xin. Zhu. Tong. Zhu. Yong-Guan. 2017-10-17. Linking Urbanization and the Environment: Conceptual and Empirical Advances. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 42. 1. 215–240. 10.1146/annurev-environ-102016-061128. 1543-5938. free.
  12. Bai. Xuemei. Shi. Peijun. Liu. Yansui. 2014-05-08. Society: Realizing China's urban dream. Nature. en. 509. 7499. 158–160. 10.1038/509158a. 24812683. 2014Natur.509..158B. 0028-0836. free. 1885/65934. free.
  13. Bai. Xuemei. van der Leeuw. Sander. O’Brien. Karen. Berkhout. Frans. Biermann. Frank. Brondizio. Eduardo S.. Cudennec. Christophe. Dearing. John. Duraiappah. Anantha. Glaser. Marion. Revkin. Andrew. 2016-07-01. Plausible and desirable futures in the Anthropocene: A new research agenda. Global Environmental Change. en. 39. 351–362. 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.09.017. 73698769 . 0959-3780. free.
  14. Bai. Xuemei. Surveyer. Alyson. Elmqvist. Thomas. Gatzweiler. Franz W. Güneralp. Burak. Parnell. Susan. Prieur-Richard. Anne-Hélène. Shrivastava. Paul. Siri. José Gabriel. Stafford-Smith. Mark. Toussaint. Jean-Patrick. 2016-12-01. Defining and advancing a systems approach for sustainable cities. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. Open Issue, part I. en. 23. 69–78. 10.1016/j.cosust.2016.11.010. 2016COES...23...69B . 1877-3435.
  15. Web site: Xuemei Bai. 2022-01-02. scholar.google.com.
  16. Web site: Fellows Directory. 2022-01-02. Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. en-AU.
  17. Web site: 2018. 2022-01-02. Volvo Environment Prize. en.
  18. Web site: Prof Xuemei Bai named as one of the world's 100 most influential people in climate policy ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions. 2022-01-02. iceds.anu.edu.au. en.
  19. Web site: The World's 100 Most Influential People In Climate Policy. 2022-01-02. Apolitical.
  20. Web site: LIVESTREAM Global Economy Prize 2021. 2022-01-02. www.ifw-kiel.de. en.
  21. Web site: 2021-09-05. Bai, Otto, and Persson awarded the Global Economy Prize 2021. 2022-01-02. idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft e.V.. de-DE.

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