Xuemei Bai

Bai was born and raised in China. She resided in Japan for many years, and is now a citizen in Australia.{{Cite web|title=Xuemei Bai of Future Earth Urban Knowledge Action Network awarded Volvo Environment Prize 2018 {{!}} Future Earth|url=https://futureearth.org/2018/10/29/xuemei-bai-of-future-earth-urban-knowledge-action-network-awarded-volvo-environment-prize-2018/|access-date=2022-01-02|language=en-US}} 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).{{Cite web|last=Director (Research Services Division)|title=Distinguished Professor Xuemei Bai|url=https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/bai-x#biography|access-date=2020-12-16|website=researchers.anu.edu.au|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=ORCID|url=https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6556-8041|access-date=2022-01-02|website=orcid.org}}

From 1993 until 1998, Bai was a researcher at the Japanese Center for International Studies in Ecology,{{Cite web|title=Academy Fellow: Professor Xuemei Bai|url=https://socialsciences.org.au/academy-fellow/?sId=0032v000033l9ZtAAI|access-date=2020-12-16|website=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia|language=en-AU}} 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.

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{{Cite journal|last1=Bai|first1=Xuemei|last2=Imura|first2=Hidefumi|date=2001|title=Towards sustainable urban water resource management: a case study in Tianjin, China|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/sd.149|journal=Sustainable Development|language=en|volume=9|issue=1|pages=24–35|doi=10.1002/sd.149|issn=1099-1719|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Bai|first=Xuemei|date=2007|title=Integrating Global Environmental Concerns into Urban Management: The Scale and Readiness Arguments|url=https://doi.org/10.1162/jie.2007.1202|journal=Journal of Industrial Ecology|volume=11|issue=2|pages=15–29|doi=10.1162/jie.2007.1202|s2cid=154978331|issn=1088-1980|url-access=subscription}} and sustainability experiments in Asia.{{Cite journal|last1=Bai|first1=Xuemei|last2=Roberts|first2=Brian|last3=Chen|first3=Jing|date=2010-06-01|title=Urban sustainability experiments in Asia: patterns and pathways|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901110000298|journal=Environmental Science & Policy|series=Socio-technical experiments in Asia – a driver for sustainability transition?|language=en|volume=13|issue=4|pages=312–325|doi=10.1016/j.envsci.2010.03.011|issn=1462-9011|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last1=Berkhout|first1=Frans|last2=Verbong|first2=Geert|last3=Wieczorek|first3=Anna J.|last4=Raven|first4=Rob|last5=Lebel|first5=Louis|last6=Bai|first6=Xuemei|date=2010|title=Sustainability experiments in Asia: innovations shaping alternative development pathways?|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1462901110000286|journal=Environmental Science & Policy|language=en|volume=13|issue=4|pages=261–271|doi=10.1016/j.envsci.2010.03.010|url-access=subscription}} She has also examined the linkages between urbanization and economic growth,{{Cite journal|last1=Bai|first1=Xuemei|last2=Chen|first2=Jing|last3=Shi|first3=Peijun|date=2012-01-03|title=Landscape Urbanization and Economic Growth in China: Positive Feedbacks and Sustainability Dilemmas|url=https://doi.org/10.1021/es202329f|journal=Environmental Science & Technology|volume=46|issue=1|pages=132–139|doi=10.1021/es202329f|issn=0013-936X|pmc=3251221|pmid=22103244|bibcode=2012EnST...46..132B}} human well-being,{{Cite journal|last1=Bai|first1=Xuemei|last2=Nath|first2=Indira|last3=Capon|first3=Anthony|last4=Hasan|first4=Nordin|last5=Jaron|first5=Dov|date=2012-10-01|title=Health and wellbeing in the changing urban environment: complex challenges, scientific responses, and the way forward|journal=Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability|series=Human settlements and industrial systems|language=en|volume=4|issue=4|pages=465–472|doi=10.1016/j.cosust.2012.09.009|bibcode=2012COES....4..465B |issn=1877-3435|doi-access=free}} and the environment.{{Cite journal|last1=Bai|first1=Xuemei|last2=McPhearson|first2=Timon|last3=Cleugh|first3=Helen|last4=Nagendra|first4=Harini|last5=Tong|first5=Xin|last6=Zhu|first6=Tong|last7=Zhu|first7=Yong-Guan|date=2017-10-17|title=Linking Urbanization and the Environment: Conceptual and Empirical Advances|journal=Annual Review of Environment and Resources|volume=42|issue=1|pages=215–240|doi=10.1146/annurev-environ-102016-061128|issn=1543-5938|doi-access=free}} More recently, she has characterized China's urbanization plan,{{Cite journal|last1=Bai|first1=Xuemei|last2=Shi|first2=Peijun|last3=Liu|first3=Yansui|date=2014-05-08|title=Society: Realizing China's urban dream|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=509|issue=7499|pages=158–160|doi=10.1038/509158a|pmid=24812683|bibcode=2014Natur.509..158B|issn=0028-0836|doi-access=free|hdl=1885/65934|hdl-access=free}} and defined future research plans for sustainable cities.{{Cite journal|last1=Bai|first1=Xuemei|last2=van der Leeuw|first2=Sander|last3=O’Brien|first3=Karen|last4=Berkhout|first4=Frans|last5=Biermann|first5=Frank|last6=Brondizio|first6=Eduardo S.|last7=Cudennec|first7=Christophe|last8=Dearing|first8=John|last9=Duraiappah|first9=Anantha|last10=Glaser|first10=Marion|last11=Revkin|first11=Andrew|date=2016-07-01|title=Plausible and desirable futures in the Anthropocene: A new research agenda|journal=Global Environmental Change|language=en|volume=39|pages=351–362|doi=10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.09.017|s2cid=73698769 |issn=0959-3780|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|last1=Bai|first1=Xuemei|last2=Surveyer|first2=Alyson|last3=Elmqvist|first3=Thomas|last4=Gatzweiler|first4=Franz W|last5=Güneralp|first5=Burak|last6=Parnell|first6=Susan|last7=Prieur-Richard|first7=Anne-Hélène|last8=Shrivastava|first8=Paul|last9=Siri|first9=José Gabriel|last10=Stafford-Smith|first10=Mark|last11=Toussaint|first11=Jean-Patrick|date=2016-12-01|title=Defining and advancing a systems approach for sustainable cities|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343516300896|journal=Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability|series=Open Issue, part I|language=en|volume=23|pages=69–78|doi=10.1016/j.cosust.2016.11.010|bibcode=2016COES...23...69B |issn=1877-3435|url-access=subscription}}

As of 2024, Bai has over 35,900 citations to her work at Google Scholar and an h-index of 64.{{Cite web|title=Xuemei Bai|url=https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&imq=Xuemei+Bai&user=j5H5lBYAAAAJ|access-date=2024-10-16|website=scholar.google.com}}

• Bai, X. (2024). Build networked resilience across cities. Science, 383(6687), eado5304. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado5304
• Bai, X. (2024). Post-2030 global goals need explicit targets for cities and businesses. Science, 385(6714), eadq4993. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adq4993
• Bai, X., Hasan, S., Andersen, L. S., Bjørn, A., Kilkiş, Ş., Ospina, D., Liu, J., Cornell, S. E., Sabag Muñoz, O., De Bremond, A., Crona, B., DeClerck, F., Gupta, J., Hoff, H., Nakicenovic, N., Obura, D., Whiteman, G., Broadgate, W., Lade, S. J., Rocha, J., Rockström, J., Stewart-Koster, B., Van Vuuren, D., & Zimm, C. (2024). Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses. Nature Sustainability, 7(2), 108–119. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01255-w
• Gupta, J., Bai, X., Liverman, D. M., Rockström, J., Qin, D., Stewart-Koster, B., Rocha, J. C., Jacobson, L., Abrams, J. F., Andersen, L. S., Armstrong McKay, D. I., Bala, G., Bunn, S. E., Ciobanu, D., DeClerck, F., Ebi, K. L., Gifford, L., Gordon, C., Hasan, S., Kanie, N., Lenton, T. M., Loriani, S., Mohamed, A., Nakicenovic, N., Obura, D., Ospina, D., Prodani, K., Rammelt, C., Sakschewski, B., Scholtens, J., Tharammal, T., Van Vuuren, D., Verburg, P. H., Winkelmann, R., Zimm, C., Bennett, E., Bjørn, A., Bringezu, S., Broadgate, W. J., Bulkeley, H., Crona, B., Green, P. A., Hoff, H., Huang, L., Hurlbert, M., Inoue, C. Y. A., Kılkış, Ş., Lade, S. J., Liu, J., Nadeem, I., Ndehedehe, C., Okereke, C., Otto, I. M., Pedde, S., Pereira, L., Schulte-Uebbing, L., Tàbara, J. D., De Vries, W., Whiteman, G., Xiao, C., Xu, X., Zafra-Calvo, N., Zhang, X., Fezzigna, P., & Gentile, G. (2024). A just world on a safe planet: A Lancet Planetary Health–Earth Commission report on Earth-system boundaries, translations, and transformations. The Lancet Planetary Health, 8(10), e813–e873. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(24)00042-1
• Bai, X. (2023). Make the upcoming IPCC Cities Special Report count. Science, 382(6670), eadl1522. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adl1522
• Stewart-Koster, B., Bunn, S. E., Green, P., Ndehedehe, C., Andersen, L. S., Armstrong McKay, D. I., Bai, X., DeClerck, F., Ebi, K. L., Gordon, C., Gupta, J., Hasan, S., Jacobson, L., Lade, S. J., Liverman, D., Loriani, S., Mohamed, A., Nakicenovic, N., Obura, D., Qin, D., Rammelt, C., Rocha, J. C., Rockström, J., Verburg, P. H., & Zimm, C. (2023). Living within the safe and just Earth system boundaries for blue water. Nature Sustainability, 7(1), 53–63. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01247-w
• Rockström, J., Gupta, J., Qin, D., Lade, S. J., Abrams, J. F., Andersen, L. S., Armstrong McKay, D. I., Bai, X., Bala, G., Bunn, S. E., Ciobanu, D., DeClerck, F., Ebi, K., Gifford, L., Gordon, C., Hasan, S., Kanie, N., Lenton, T. M., Loriani, S., Liverman, D. M., Mohamed, A., Nakicenovic, N., Obura, D., Ospina, D., Prodani, K., Rammelt, C., Sakschewski, B., Scholtens, J., Stewart-Koster, B., Tharammal, T., Van Vuuren, D., Verburg, P. H., Winkelmann, R., Zimm, C., Bennett, E. M., Bringezu, S., Broadgate, W., Green, P. A., Huang, L., Jacobson, L., Ndehedehe, C., Pedde, S., Rocha, J., Scheffer, M., Schulte-Uebbing, L., De Vries, W., Xiao, C., Xu, C., Xu, X., Zafra-Calvo, N., & Zhang, X. (2023). Safe and just Earth system boundaries. Nature, 619(7968), 102–111. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06083-8
• {{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59279709|title=Ecosystems and human well-being : synthesis|date=2005|publisher=Island Press|others=Millennium Ecosystem Assessment|isbn=1-59726-040-1|location=Washington, DC|oclc=59279709}}
• {{Cite journal|last1=Bai|first1=Xuemei|last2=Shi|first2=Peijun|last3=Liu|first3=Yansui|date=2014-05-08|title=Society: Realizing China's urban dream|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=509|issue=7499|pages=158–160|doi=10.1038/509158a|pmid=24812683|bibcode=2014Natur.509..158B|issn=0028-0836|doi-access=free|hdl=1885/65934|hdl-access=free}}
• {{Cite journal|last1=Bai|first1=Xuemei|last2=van der Leeuw|first2=Sander|last3=O’Brien|first3=Karen|last4=Berkhout|first4=Frans|last5=Biermann|first5=Frank|last6=Brondizio|first6=Eduardo S.|last7=Cudennec|first7=Christophe|last8=Dearing|first8=John|last9=Duraiappah|first9=Anantha|last10=Glaser|first10=Marion|last11=Revkin|first11=Andrew|date=2016-07-01|title=Plausible and desirable futures in the Anthropocene: A new research agenda|journal=Global Environmental Change|language=en|volume=39|pages=351–362|doi=10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.09.017|s2cid=73698769 |issn=0959-3780|doi-access=free}}

Bai was elected a fellow of Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2017.{{Cite web|title=Fellows Directory|url=https://socialsciences.org.au/fellows-directory/|access-date=2022-01-02|website=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia|language=en-AU}} She was the 2018 Laureate of the Volvo Environment Prize,{{Cite web|title=2018|url=https://www.environment-prize.com/ceremony/2018/|access-date=2022-01-02|website=Volvo Environment Prize|language=en}} and was named one of the World's 100 Most Influential People in Climate Change Policy by Apolitical in 2019.{{Cite web|title=Prof Xuemei Bai named as one of the world's 100 most influential people in climate policy {{!}} ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions|url=https://iceds.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/prof-xuemei-bai-named-one-worlds-100-most-influential-people-climate-policy|access-date=2022-01-02|website=iceds.anu.edu.au|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=The World's 100 Most Influential People In Climate Policy|url=https://apolitical.co/lists/most-influential-climate-100/|access-date=2022-01-02|website=Apolitical}} In 2021, Bai received the Global Economy Prize from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.{{Cite web|title=LIVESTREAM {{!}} Global Economy Prize 2021|url=https://www.ifw-kiel.de/institute/events/prizes-and-awards/global-economy-prize/events/global-economy-prize-2021/?cookieLevel=not-set|access-date=2022-01-02|website=www.ifw-kiel.de|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2021-09-05|title=Bai, Otto, and Persson awarded the Global Economy Prize 2021|url=https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2021/09/05/bai-otto-and-persson-awarded-the-global-economy-prize-2021/|access-date=2022-01-02|website=idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft e.V.|language=de-DE}}

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