On April 1st, the Hujiang Economics and Management Forum Series (94 th Session) was held online. Dr. Yannan Zhou, a lecturer from the Department of Public Administration, delivered a lecture entitled The Shift of Global Embodied Energy Transfer and Its Dynamic Analysis. Faculty members and graduate students from the Department of Public Administration attended the presentation.
The lecture started with the basic concept of embodied energy and provided an in-depth analysis of the importance of embodied energy transfer in the global energy transition. Dr Zhou explained in detail how to use international input-output tables and the International Energy Agency database to construct a global transfer matrix of trade embodied energy, thereby revealing the complex structure of the global embodied energy transfer network. Furthermore, Dr. Zhou conducted a thorough comparative analysis between the embodied energy network and the traditional energy trade network. This comparison unveiled the disparities in energy flow patterns and dissected their respective roles in shaping global energy flows. Additionally, Dr Zhou introduced in detail the application of structural decomposition analysis method in analyzing the driving force of changes in the spatial pattern of embodied energy flow. Through this method, she deeply analyzed how various factors affect the flow of global embodied energy, and how these factors interact with each other to jointly promote the transition of global embodied energy flow. At the end of the lecture, Yingjia Wang from the Department of Industrial Engineering offered profound insights and a comprehensive summary of Dr. Zhou's presentation.
The hosting of this lecture not only broadened the participants' knowledge and understanding of the complexity of global energy flows and energy transition, but also provided novel ideas and methods for future research.
