Yechennan Peng

Yechennan Peng is a PhD candidate at the Institute of geography and the research group climate change and security at the University of Hamburg. She currently works on “Energy transition and climate change in the Yangtze River Delta Region”, and supervised by Prof. Dr Jürgen Scheffran and Co-supervised by Prof. Dr Uwe Schneider.

Her research aims to determine the optimal sustainable, dynamic energy plan in the Yangtze River Delta region by applying a mixed methodology, based on agent-based energy landscape model. This research is interdisciplinary and integrates the objective information of the regional environment, energy technologies, and the subjective energy transition priority of energy planners.

She received her Master degree in the School of Integrated Climate System Sciences at the University of Hamburg, and a graduated from the Chengdu University of Information Technology, China, in 2014, with a bachelor degree in applied meteorology. She has joint a project “Carbon effects of the rural livelihood transitions in the Three Gorges Reservoir area (1978-2017)” from Christian-Albrechts- Universität zu Kiel. She has taken the major work in this project, including interview design, questionnaire surveys (422 household interviews), data collection, data processing and analysis. By working in this project, she has established close cooperation with the Southwest University in China and the Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Recent publications:

Peng, Y., Yang, L.E., Scheffran, J., 2021a. A life-cycle assessment framework for quantifying the carbon footprint of rural households based on survey data. MethodsX 8, 101411. online

Peng, Y., Yang, L.E., Scheffran, J., Yan, J., Li, M., Jiang, P., Wang, Y., Cremades, R., 2021b. Livelihood transitions transformed households’ carbon footprint in the Three Gorges Reservoir area of China. J. Clean. Prod. 328, 129607. online