professional contributions
 | Member of the International Society of Industrial ecology. Peer-reviewer of Environmental Science& Technology, Energy Policy, Journal of Industrial Ecology, and Cleaner Production, etc. |
 | Workshop on PIRE project curriculum at the National Academy of Engineering in 6- 8 March 2013; |
| | Organize "Carbon Footprinting and Modelling: The Key to the Low Carbon City workshop", which sponsored by British "The Foreign & Commonwealth Office's Strategic Programme Fund", Mat 2011. |
| | Policy Outreach to Cities: Dr. Cui lead his groups working on Low Carbon urban planning for Xiamen City and as key attendees of the project on Low-carbon urban development pathway and environment integrated management pattern sponsored by Chinese Ministry of Environment. He works with the Xiamen Municipal Government to provide technical assistance and policy suggestions for low carbon action plan and waste management to Xiamen. |
Invited talks at major international conferences
| | Invited speaker at the UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC Expert Group Meeting on Sustainable Infrastructure Development in Asia and the Pacific 11-13 June 2007, Bangkok, Thailand |
| | Invited speaker at the URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION–Creating Healthy, Liveable Cities and Sustainable Urban System（SUS）Workshop, 17-27 June 2012, Paris; |
| | Invited to attend the Workshop on PIRE project curriculum, Organized by the College of Engineering, Washington, 23-27 April 2013 |
| | Invited speaker at the 2nd Sino-U.S. Workshop on Sustainability Issues at the Nexus of Energy, Water, Climate, and Air Pollutions (NEWCAP), September 8-9, 2014, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A. and the Oral presentation title is "Carbon, water and nitrogen footprints of food consumption in Chinese urbanization process". |
| | Invited speaker at the 18th Nitrogen WorkshopLisbon, Portugal, 30th June to 3rd July 2014. and the Oral presentation title is "Nitrogen footprint: nitrogen use and nitrogen loss related to food production in China". |
| | Invited speaker at First China-Japan (CAS-JST) workshop on New Environmentally Sustainable Systems for Japan and China, 21st-22nd, Feb., 2014. and the Oral presentation title is "Reactive nitrogen fluxes and nitrogen footprint during the rapid urbanization process of China". |
Supported projects
 | Study on Technology Research and Application of Urban Climate Environment Protection and Space Division. Sponser: Chinese National Programs for Science and Technology Support; |
 | Study onTechnology Evaluation and Optimization Research of Sludge Resources Based on the Life Cycle. Sponser: Key Deployment Project of CAS; |
| | Study on Reactive nitrogen sources of China and their impacts on air quality and climate change. Sponser: National Key Scientific Research Project |
| | Study on Pilot Project of Low Carbon City in Xiamen. Sponser: China Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Grant Project; |
| | Study on Coping Strategy and Planning Appplication of Coastal Urban Form on the Context of Climate Change. Sponser: National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC) |
| | Study on Ecological Environment Stress Effect of Residents' Food Consumption in Ningbo Based on Multi-footprint Evaluation. Sponser: Ningbo Science and Technology Project; |
| | Study on Index System of 12th five-year" Environmental Protection Special Planning Goals for Fujian Province. Sponser: Science and Technology Plan of Fujian Province Environmental Protection Bureau; |
| | Study on the effect of the residential morphology changing on urban metabolism process and efficiency. Sponsor: key project of knowledge innovation of CAS;; |
| | Integrated Assessment of Urban Coastal Vulnerability under Environmental Changes. Sponsor: National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC); |
| | The eco-environmental stress effects of urban development. Sponsor: key project of knowledge innovation of CAS; |
| | Study on C, N, P Metabolism of food consumption in Xiamen. Sponsor: Science and Technology Project of Xiamen City; |
Key Publications
| | Lin J., Jacoby J., Cui S., et al. A model for developing a target integrated low carbon city indicator system: The case of Xiamen, China[J]. Ecological Indicators. 2014,40 (0): 51-57. |
| | Cui SH, Shi YL, Groffman PM, et al. Centennial-scale analysis of the creation and fate of reactive nitrogen in China (1910-2010). PNAS, 2013, 110(6): 2052-2057.; |
| | Lin JY, Liu Y, Meng FX, Cui SH*, Xu LL. Using hybrid method to evaluate carbon footprint of Xiamen City, China, Energy Policy, 2013, 58：220-227. |
| | Li GL, Zhao Y, Cui SH*.Effects of urbanization on arable land requirements in China, based on food consumption patterns. Food Security. 2013, 5:439–449. |
| | Zhou J, Lin JY, Cui SH*, Qiu QY, Zhao QJ. Exploring the relationship between urban transportation energy consumption and transition of settlement morphology: A case study on Xiamen Island, China, Habitat International. 2013, 37(1):70-79 |
| | Xu LL, Gao PQ, Cui SH*, Liu C. A hybrid procedure for MSW generation forecasting at multiple time scales in Xiamen City, China. Waste Management. 2013, 33: 1324–1331. |
| | Huang YF, Li F, Bai XM, Cui SH*. Comparing vulnerability of coastal communities to land use change: Analytical framework and a case study of China [J]. Environmental Science and Policy, 2012, 23:133-143. |
| | Lin JY, Lin T*, Cui SH. Quantitative selection model of ecological indicators and its solving Method. Ecological Indicators. 2012, 13 (1): 294-302. |
| | Ren Y, Wei XH, Zhang L, Cui SH*, et al. Potential for forest vegetation carbon storage in Fujian Province, China, determined from forest inventories. Plant and Soil. 2011, 345:125–140. |
| | Zhao SN, Lin JY, Cui SH*. 2011. Water resource assessment based on water footprint for Lijiang City. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology. 2011, 18(6): 492-497 |
| | Cui SH, Meng FX, Wang W, Lin JY. GHG accounting for public transport in Xiamen city, China. Carbon Management. 2011, 2(4):383–395. |
| | Cui SH, Yang XA, Guo XH, Zhao QJ, Lin T, Feng L. 2011. Increased challenges for world heritage protection as a result of urbanization in Lijiang City, China. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology. 2011, 18(6): 480-485. |
| | Guo XH, Cui SH*, Lin T, Song Y. The ecological risk assessment of the Chinese White Dolphins in Xiamen coastal waters. Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management. 2011, (14)298–304. |
| | Lin JY, Li Y, Wang W, Cui SH*, Wei XH. An eco-efficiency based urban sustainability assessment method and its application, International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 2010, 17(4): 356-361. |
| | Lin JY, Cao B, Cui SH*, Wang W, Bai XM. Evaluating effectiveness of Xiamen city's local measures for energy conservation and GHG mitigation, Energy Policy, 2010,38(9): 5123–5132. |
| | Cui SH, Niu HB, Wang W, Zhang GQ, Gao LJ, Lin JY. Carbon footprint analysis of the bus rapid transit (BRT) system: a case study of Xiamen city. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 2010, 17(4): 329-337. |
| | Pan LY, Lin T, Xiao LS, Zhao Y, Cui SH*. Household waste management for a peri-urban area based on analysing. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 2010,17 (4): 342-349. |
| | Huang, J, Cui SH*, Qiu, QY, et al. Estimates of exposure of a coastal city to spatial use changes - a case study in Xiamen, International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 2010,17: 4, 292 — 298 |
| | Huang YF，Cui SH* and Zhi-yun Ouyang. Integrated ecological assessment as the basis for management of a coastal urban protected area: A case study of Xiamen, China [J].International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 2008(15):389-394. |
| | Shi YL, Cui SH, Ju XT, Cai ZC, Zhu YG. Impacts of reactive nitrogen on climate change in China. Scientific Reports. 2015. DOI: 10.1038/srep08118 |
| | Lin JY, Hu YC, Cui SH*, Kang JF, Xu LL. Carbon footprints of food production in China (1979-2009). Journal of Cleaner Production. 2015, 90: 97-103. |
| | Xu LL, Lin T, Xu Y, Xiao LS, Ye ZL, Cui SH. Path analysis of factors influencing household solid waste generation: a case study of Xiamen Island, China. Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management. 2014. DOI: 10.1007/s10163-014-0340-0. |
| | Xue XZ, Ren Y, Cui SH, Lin JY, Huang W, Zhou J. Integrated analysis of GHGs and public health damage mitigation for developing urban road transportation strategies. Transport research Part D: transport and environment. 2014, 35: 84-103. |