School of Earth System Science
Associate professor
Tenured associate Professor
可持续性发展
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620, School of Earth System Science
天津大学地球系统科学学院英才副教授(长聘),天津大学北洋学者英才计划入选者。曾在德国慕尼黑工业大学、芬兰阿尔托大学、美国马里兰大学帕克分校、荷兰屯特大学等多所著名学府开展研究工作,导师包括欧洲科学院外籍院士、国家杰出青年学者刘俊国教授,国际著名环境经济学者Klaus Hubacek教授,英国社科院院士、美国马里兰大学终身教授孙来祥教授,国际投入产出协会现任主席、美国马里兰大学终身教授冯奎双教授,英国社科院院士、清华大学关大博教授等多位国际著名学者。围绕水资源学、自然资源学与环境经济学等交叉学科领域关键科学问题,以方法创新为切入点,在‘水-能-粮-土’纽带关系、水足迹与水资源短缺、环境投入产出分析等前沿领域开展学术研究。发表学术论文40余篇,包括Nature Water、Water Research、Science Bulletin等国际著名SCI期刊论文20余篇。以第一/通讯(共通)作者在Science Bulletin, Water Research等国际期刊发表论文10余篇,1篇《科学通报》封面文章、1篇论文被《生态学报》评为“2010-2019最具影响力论文”,出版《自然-社会系统水资源评价理论与方法》专著1部。主持国家自然科学基金1项,欧洲大学国际合作项目1项(已结题)。担任npj Clean Water副主编、Energy, Ecology and Environment 专题编辑等学术兼职。
📈具有丰富的学生指导经验,已经与导师联合指导十余名硕博士,部分博士毕业在河海大学、北理工等学校工作,硕士前往香港大学、清华大学等名校继续深造。
🧭研究风格细致严谨,具有很强的好奇心与创新意识,尊重学生个人意愿,支持鼓励学生多方位发展。
🎓团队有招生指标,欢迎有人文地理学、环境经济学、生态学等交叉学科背景,并且熟练掌握至少一门编程(Python, R,Matlab等)的优秀学生来信咨询报考
- Doctoral degree| Beijing Forestry University| Wetland Ecology| 2019
- Bachelor’s Degree| Beijing Forestry University| Resource environment and urban-rural planning and management| 2012
- Environmental input-output analysis
- Water Footprint and Virtual Water Trade
- Sustainable Development
- Water-Energy-Food-Land Nexus
- Water Scarcity Assessment
- Carbon Neutrality Young Editorial Board Member
- The innovation Young Editorial Board member
- Energy, Ecology and Environment Subject editor
- npj Clean water Associate Editor
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2025.1-Now
School of Earth System Science | Tianjin University | Tenured associate Professor  -
2019.10-2024.12
Department of Built Environment | Aalto university, Finland | Postdoc researcher  -
2023.10-2023.12
Chair of urban water system engineering | Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany | Visiting Scientist  -
2017.1-2018.3
Department of Geographical Science | University of Maryland College park, USA | 无 | Visiting Scholar 
- Papers
- [1] Liu S.M, Liu J.G, Zhao D.D et al. 2025. Impact of Transboundary Water Flows on Quality-Induced Water Pressure in China. Commun Earth Environ 6, 150.
- [2] Hou S.Y, Huo J.W,… Zhao D.D… et al. 2025. Tracking grid-level freshwater boundary exceedance along global supply chains from consumption to impact. Nature Water 3, 439–448
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- [3] Zhao D.D, Liu J.G, Sun L.X et.al. 2024. Water consumption and biodiversity: Responses to global emergency events. Water research. 195, 116986. Science bulletin (SCI, JCR1, Top, IF=18.9, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2024.03.049)
- [4] Zhao D.D, Liu J.G, Sun L.X et.al. 2021. Quantifying economic-social-environmental trade-offs and synergies of water-supply constraints: An application to the capital region of China. Water research. 195, 116986 (SCI/SSCI, JCR1 Top, Nature index, IF=13.4, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2021.116986)
- [5] Zhao D.D, Liu J.G, Sun L.X et.al. 2021. Socioeconomic drivers of provincial-level changes in the blue and green water footprints in China. Resources Conservation & Recycling, 175,105834.(SCI/SSCI, JCR1,Top, IF=13.7, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105834)
- [6] Zhao D.D, Hubacek K, Feng K.S et.al. 2019. Explaining the virtual water trade: A spatial-temporal analysis of the comparative advantage of land, labor and water in China. Water research. 153, 304-314 (SCI/SSCI, JCR1, Top, Nature index, IF=13.4, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.01.025)
- [7] Zhao D.D, Cai J.L, Shen L et al. 2023 Delivery of energy sustainability: Application of the “STAR” protocol to the Sustainable Development Goal 7 index and interaction analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production. (SCI/SSCI, JCR1, Top, IF=11.07,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.135884)
- [8] Zhao D.D, Tang Y, Liu J.G et al. 2017. Water footprint of Jing-Jin-Ji urban agglomeration in China. Journal of Cleaner Production. 167,919-928. (SCI/SSCI, JCR1, Top, IF=11.07, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.07.01)
- [9] Zhao D.D, Liu J.G. 2015. A new approach to assessing the water footprint of hydroelectric power based on allocation of water footprints among reservoir ecosystem services. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth.79-82,40-46.(SCI, IF=3.3, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2015.03.005)
- [10] Varis, O., & Zhao, D. (2025). China’s eight water risks. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2024.2448720
- [11] Qi X.X, Feng, K.S, Sun L.X, Zhao D.D et al. 2022. Rising agricultural water scarcity in China is driven by expansion of irrigated cropland in water scarce regions. One Earth. (SCI/SSCI, JCR1 Top, IF=14.9, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2022.09.008 )
- [12] Xia Q, Tian, G.L*, Zhao D.D*, Zhao Q, & Varis O. 2024. Effects of new-type urbanization on resource pressure: Evidence from a water-energy-food system perspective in China. Sustainable Cities and Society, 105411 (SCI/SSCI,JCR1, TOP, IF=11.7 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2024.105411)
- [13] Zheng H., Zhang Z., Dietzenbacher E.. Zhao D.D... Leveraging Opportunity of Low Carbon Transition by Super-Emitter Cities in China. Science bulletin (SCI, Top, IF=18.9, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2023.08.016)
- [14] Peng X., Chen H*., Zhong H L., Long R.Y*., Zhang C*, Zhao D.D* et al. 2023. Water-saving co-benefits of CO2 reduction in China’s electricity sector. iScience. (Cell publishing, JCR1, IF =6.11,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106035)
- [15] Yu F., Wang Y*., Liu X., Yu J.R., Zhao D.D* et al. 2023. Driving forces and variation in water footprint before and after the COVID-19 lockdown in Fujian province, China. Journal of Cleaner Production. (Accepted, SCI/SSCI, JCR1, Top, IF=11.07)
- [16] Zhang Z.Y, Shan Y.L, Zhao D.D et al. 2024. City level water withdrawal and scarcity accounts of China. Scientific Data, 11(1), 449. (SCI, JCR1, IF=9.8, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03115-4)
- [17] Liu, S.M, Liu, J.G, Zhao, D.D, & Cao, W. F. 2024. Revealing neglected hotspots for China’s quality-induced water scarcity. Environmental Research Letters. (SCI,JCR1,IF=8.3, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad44b3)
- [18] Peng, X., Sun, L., Feng, K... Zhao, D.D…et al. Extent of global decarbonization of the power sector through energy policies and governance capacity. Commun Earth Environ 5, 321 (2024). (SCI, JCR1, IF=7.3, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01494-5 )
- [19] Du, Y.Y, Zhao, D.D, Jiang, M, et al. 2022. Local and non-local drivers of consumption-based water use in China during 2007–2015: Perspective of metacoupling. Journal of Environmental Management, 312, 114940. (SCI, JCR1, IF=8.9, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114940)
- [20] Du, Y.Y, Zhao, D.D, Qiu, S.Y, et al. 2022. How can virtual water trade reshape water stress pattern? A global evaluation based on the metacoupling perspective. Ecological Indicators. 145(5):109712 (SCI, JCR1, IF= 6.263, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.109712 )
- [21] Zhong R#, Chen A.F#, Zhao D.D, et al. 2022. Impact of international trade on water scarcity: An assessment by improving the Falkenmark indicator. Journal of Cleaner Production. 385:135740 (SCI/SSCI, JCR1, Top, IF=11.07, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.135740)
- [22] Liu, K.W#, Cao, W.F#, Zhao, D.D et al. 2022. Assessment of Ecological Water Scarcity in China. Environmental Research Letters.104056.(SCI, JCR1,IF=6.947, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac95b0 )
- [23] Du, Y.Y, Fang, K., Zhao, D.D et al. 2022. How far are we from possible ideal virtual water transfer? Evidence from assessing vulnerability of global virtual water trade. Science of The Total Environment, 154493.(SCI, JCR1,IF=10.7, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154493 )
- [24] Cai J.L, Zhao D.D, Varis O. 2021. Match words with deeds: Curbing water risk with the Sustainable Development Goal 6 index. Journal of Cleaner Production, 318, 128509.(SCI/SSCI, JCR1, Top. IF=11.07, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128509)
- [25] Liu J.G, Zhao D.D, Mao G.Q et.al. 2020. Environmental Sustainability of Water Footprint in Mainland China. Geography and Sustainability. 1(1):8-17. doi: 10.1016/j.geosus.2020.02.002.
- [26] Wang X.Y, Gong, Z, Zhao D.D, Liu J.C. 2023. Spatiotemporal changes of forest vegetation after the implementation of a natural forest protection project and underlying driving factors: Case study of a typical natural secondary forest area in the Loess Plateau. Ecological Engineering, 199,107164 (SCI, IF=3.8,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2023.107164)
- [27] 刘俊国, 赵丹丹. 2020. “量-质-生”三维水资源短缺评价: 评述及展望. 科学通报. 65(36), 4251-4261 (EI,CSCD, 封面文章, https://doi.org/10.1360/TB-2020-0918)
- [28] Liu J.G, Zhao D.D, P.W. Gerbens-Leenes et.al. 2015. China’s rising hydropower demand challenges water sector. Scientific Report. SR: 11446. (SCI, IF=5.0,https://www.nature.com/articles/srep11446 )
- [29] Fu C.X, Xu X.R, Zheng C. M, Liu X.J, Zhao D.D & Qiu W.H. 2022. Photocatalysis of aqueous PFOA by common catalysts of In2O3, Ga2O3, TiO2, CeO2 and CdS: influence factors and mechanistic insights. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 1-11.(SCI, JCR1, IF=4.898)
- [30] 赵丹丹,刘俊国,赵旭.2014.基于效益分摊的水电水足迹计算方法研究:以密云水库为例.生态学报.34(10):2787-2795 (CSCD)
- [31] 刘俊国,赵丹丹. 2018叶斌. 雄安新区白洋淀生态属性辨析及生态修复保护探讨.生态学报39(9), 3019-3025(CSCD, 2001-2019年最具影响力论文)