Research Interests

Prof. Dong's research focus to apply principles of Industrial Ecology to fight to the challenges of developing sustainable, smart and low-carbon cities, with focuses on the sustainability science & policies, environmental system analysis, and policies design under the theme of urban sustainability. Sub-topics also include development on holistic and integrated socioeconomic and environmental system analytical tools (e.g., life cycle assessment, urban metabolism approach, input-output model and their integration), sustainability indicators/policies, energy and environmental economic approaches, big data and spatial planning tools, and their applications in eco-industrial development, as well as sustainable, low-carbon and smart cities planning. He took charge and engaged in a series of national level circular economy, smart cities, and low-carbon cities projects in EU, Japan and China. He also actively engaged in providing broad academic services, like consulting to UN-ESCAP, Energy Foundation and many local stakeholders of Industrial and Urban planning, to forward circular, eco and low-carbon urban and regional transition in EU, Asia-Pacific and globe.

Selected Publications

• Yuanping Wang, Hong Ren, Liang Dong*, Hung-Suck Park, Yuepeng Zhang, and Yanwei Xue, 2019. Smart solutions shape for sustainable low-carbon future: A review on smart cities and industrial parks in China. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 144, 103-117. (corresponding author)
• Dong, L., Wang, Y., Scipioni, A., Park, H.-S., Ren, J., 2018. Recent progress on innovative urban infrastructures system towards sustainable resource management. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 128, 355-359.
• Ren, J., Dong, L*., 2018. Evaluation of electricity supply sustainability and security: Multi-criteria decision analysis approach. Journal of Cleaner Production 172, 438-453. (corresponding author)
• Long, Y., Dong, L.*, Yoshida, Y., Li Z.L, 2018. Evaluation of Energy-related Household Carbon Footprints in Metropolitan Areas of Japan. Ecological Modelling 377, 16-25. (corresponding author)
• Hyeong-Woo Kim, Liang Dong, Seok Jung and Hung-Suck Park, 2018. The Role of the Eco-Industrial Park (EIP) at the National Economy: An Input-Output Analysis on Korea. Sustainability 10(12), 4545.
• Ren, J., Dong L., and Sun L., 2018. Competitiveness Prioritization of Container Ports in Asia under the Background of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Transport Reviews 38 (4): 436-456.
• Dong, L., et al., 2017. Highlighting regional eco-industrial development: Life cycle benefits of an urban industrial symbiosis and implications in China. Ecological Modelling 361, 164-176.
• Liang Dong, et al., 2017. Material flows and resource productivity in China, South Korea and Japan from 1970 to 2008: A transitional perspective. Journal of Cleaner Production 141, 1164-1177.
• Xiao Luo, Liang Dong*, et al., 2017. Factor Decomposition Analysis and Causal Mechanism Investigation on Urban Transport CO2 Emission: Comparative Study on Shanghai and Tokyo. Energy Policy 107, 658-668.(corresponding author)
• Xiao Luo, Liang Dong*, et al., 2017. Analysis on Spatial-temporal Features of Taxis' Emissions from Big Data Informed Travel Patterns: A Case of Shanghai, China. Journal of Cleaner Production 142, 926-935. (corresponding author)
• Fang, K., Dong, L.*, et al., 2017. Carbon footprints of urban transition: Tracking circular economy promotions in Guiyang, China. Ecological Modelling 365, 30-44. (SSCI, IF=2.507) (corresponding author)
• Anthony S.F. Chiu, Liang Dong*, et al., 2017. Philippine resource efficiency in Asian context: Status, trends and driving forces of Philippine material flows from 1980 to 2008. Journal of Cleaner Production 153, 63-73. (corresponding author)
• Liang Dong, et al., 2016. Spatial distribution of China's renewable energy industry: Regional features and implications for a harmonious development future, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 58: 1521-1531.
• Liang Dong, et al., 2016. Towards preventative eco-industrial development: an industrial and urban symbiosis case in one typical industrial city in China, Journal of Cleaner Production. 2016, 114: 387-400.
• Xiao Luo, Liang Dong*, et al., 2016. Regional disparity analysis of Chinese freight transport CO2 emissions from 1990 to 2007: Driving forces and policy challenges. Journal of Transport Geography 56, 1-14. (corresponding author)
• Dou, Y., Luo, X., Dong, L.*, et al., 2016. An empirical study on transit-oriented low-carbon urban land use planning: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) on Shanghai, China. Habitat International 53, 379-389. (corresponding author)
• Takuya Togawa, Tsuyoshi Fujita, Liang Dong, Satoshi Ohnishi, Minoru Fujii, 2016. Integrating GIS databases and ICT applications for the design of energy circulation systems, Journal of Cleaner Production 114: 224-232.
• Dong, L., Dong H., Fujita T., Geng Y. and Fujii M., 2015. Cost-effectiveness analysis of China's Sulfur dioxide control strategy at the regional level: regional disparity, inequity and future challenges. Journal of Cleaner Production, 90: 345-359.
• Jingzheng Ren, Liang Dong, et al., 2015. “Supply push” or “demand pull?”: Strategic recommendations for the responsible development of biofuel in China. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 52: 382-392.
• Jingzheng Ren, Liang Dong, et al., 2015. Life cycle cost optimization of biofuel supply chains under uncertainties based on interval linear programming. Bioresource Technology, 187: 6-13.
• Huijuan Dong, Hancheng Dai, Liang Dong, Tsuyoshi Fujita, Yong Geng, Zbigniew Klimont, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Shintaro Bunya, Minoru Fujii, Toshihiko Masui, 2015. Pursuing air pollutant co-benefits of CO2 mitigation in China: A provincial leveled analysis. Applied Energy, 144:165-174.
• Dong, L., Liang, H., 2014. Spatial analysis on China’s regional air pollutants and CO2 emissions: emission pattern and regional disparity. Atmospheric Environment, 92: 280-291.
• Dong, L., Gu, F., Fujita, T., Hayashi, Y., Gao, J., 2014. Uncovering opportunity of low-carbon city promotion with industrial system innovation: Case study on industrial symbiosis projects in China. Energy Policy 65, 388-397.
• Dong, L., Fujita, T., Zhang, H., Dai, M., Fujii, M., Ohnishi, S., Geng, Y., Liu, Z., 2013. Promoting low-carbon city through industrial symbiosis: A case in China by applying HPIMO model. Energy Policy 61, 864-873.
• Dong, L., Zhang, H., Fujita, T., Ohnishi, S., Li, H., Fujii, M., Dong, H., 2013. Environmental and economic gains of industrial symbiosis for Chinese iron/steel industry: Kawasaki's experience and practice in Liuzhou and Jinan. Journal of Cleaner Production 59, 226-238.
• Kanada, M., Dong, L.*, Fujita, T., Fujii, M., Inoue, T., Hirano, Y., Togawa, T., Geng, Y., 2013. Regional disparity and cost-effective SO2 pollution control in China: A case study in 5 mega-cities. Energy Policy 61, 1322-1331. (corresponding author)
• Zhang, H., Dong, L.*, Li, H.-q., Chen, B., Tang, Q., Fujita, T., 2013. Investigation of the residual heat recovery and carbon emission mitigation potential in a Chinese steelmaking plant: A hybrid material/energy flow analysis case study. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 2, 67-80. (corresponding author)
• Zhang H., Dong L.*, Li H., Fujita T., Ohnishi S., Tang Q., 2013. Analysis of low-carbon industrial symbiosis technology for carbon mitigation in a Chinese iron/steel industrial park: A case study with carbon flow analysis. Energy Policy 61, 1400-1411. (corresponding author)
• Li H., Dong L., Wang D., 2013. Economic and environmental gains of China's fossil energy subsidies reform: A rebound effect case study with EIMO model. Energy Policy 54, 335-342.
• Hong Li, Liang Dong, Minghua Xie, 2011. A Study on the Comprehensive Evaluation and Optimization of How Removing Gas and Electricity Subsidies Would Affect Households' Living. Journal of Economic Research, 2:100-112. (In Chinese)