Carole Dalin
Associate Professor
CNRS Researcher
University College London
c.dalin at ucl.ac.uk
École normale supérieure
carole.dalin at ens.fr
c.dalin at ucl.ac.uk
École normale supérieure
carole.dalin at ens.fr
I am a CNRS Researcher at École normale supérieure in the Department of Geosciences (Oct 23), where I lead the European Research Council Starting Grant FLORA: “Sustainable and healthy food solutions: system dynamics and trade-offs”.
I am an Associate Professor in Sustainable Food Systems at the University College London, in the Institute for Sustainable Resources.
I obtained my Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering & Water Resources in 2014 with the late Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe and my Certificate in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy with Denise Mauzerall, both at Princeton University.
After that, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, hosted by Declan Conway.
I was then a Natural Environment Research Council Independent Research Fellow from 2016-2021.
My interests are Environmental Engineering and Policy, in particular for water resources management, food security and sustainability implications.
Bio & CV
since 2023: CNRS Researcher, École normale supérieure
since 2022: Research Principal Investigator (ERC-StG), École normale supérieure
since 2021: Associate Professor, University College London
2019-2021: Principal Research Fellow & proleptic Associate Professor, University College London
2016-2019: Senior Research Fellow & proleptic Assistant Professor, University College London
2015-2016: Research Officer, London School of Economics
2014-2015: Postdoctoral Researcher, London School of Economics
2009-14: Ph.D. candidate, Princeton University
2007-09: École Centrale Paris, France
2005-07: Lycée Louis-Le-Grand, Paris, France
Research Team
Gideon Mensah-Commey - Ph.D. student (started Oct. 2021) - Banana exports from Ghana to UK: biodiversity conservation & social equity - UK Food Systems CDT (co-supervised by Robert Biel, UCL DPU)
Carolina Campos Santos - Ph.D. student (started Nov. 2020) - A composite indicator for anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity (co-supervised with Jim Waston, UCL ISR, and Tim Newbold, UCL CBER)
Jamie Gonzalez Zapata Ph.D. student (started Sep. 2019) - Trading water pollution permits in the U.K. (co-supervised with Tohid Erfani, UCL CEGE)
Arianna Buratto - Ph.D. student (started Sept. 2019) - EPSRC Studentship on Behavioral economics of food production and consumption for environmental sustainability (co-supervised with Paolo Agnolucci and Lorenzo Lotti, UCL ISR)
Abbie Chapman - Postdoctoral Researcher (started June 2021) - SHEFS Wellcome Trust-funded project on
Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems
Former members:
Mark Jwaideh - Ph.D. student (2023) - EPSRC Studentship on Freshwater and marine impacts of fertiliser used in agriculture worldwide (co-supervised with Paul Ekins, UCL ISR)
Sara Bonetti - Postdoctoral Researcher (Feb. 2020-July 2021) - SHEFS Wellcome Trust-funded project on
Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems. *Now Assistant Professor at EPFL, Switzerland.
Monica Ortiz - Postdoctoral Researcher (Oct. 2018-Feb 2021) - BIOTA NERC-funded project. *Now Senior Research Fellow at the Manila Observatory.
Elizabeth Boakes - Postdoctoral Researcher (Feb. 2021-Sep 2022) - BIOTA NERC-funded project on
Interactions and trade-offs between agriculture and biodiversity globally (with Tim Newbold at UCL CBER)
Charlotte Outhwaite - Postdoctoral Researcher (Oct. 2018 - Sep 2022) - BIOTA NERC-funded project
Publications
PREPRINTS:
Global trade and the resilience of food supply to extreme weather exposure
EarthArXiv link
PLANTdex: An index to assess the multi-dimensional environmental impact of global crop commodities
Research Square link
The contribution of international food trade to dietary risks and mortality at global, regional, and national levels
Research Square link [accepted in Nature Food]
Impacts of global food supply on biodiversity via land use and climate change
bioRxiv link
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES:
Water Quality and Pollution Trading: A Sustainable Solution for Future Food Production
ES&T Engineering 2023 DOI PDF
Economic and virtual water multilayer networks in China
Journal of Cleaner Production 2022 DOI PDF
The 2022 report of Lancet Countdown on health & climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels
The Lancet. 2022 DOI PDF
Beyond the Green Revolution: A roadmap for sustainable food systems research and action
Environmental Research Letters 2022 DOI PDF
Global impacts of nitrogen and phosphorus fertiliser use for major crops on aquatic biodiversity
International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 2022 DOI PDF
Climate change impacts on water sustainability of South African crop production
Environmental Research Letters. 2022 DOI PDF
Availability and proximity of natural habitat influences cropland biodiversity in forest biomes
Global Ecology and Biogeography. 2022 DOI PDF
What do changing weather and climate shocks and stresses mean for the UK food system?
Environmental Research Letters. 2022 DOI PDF
The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health & climate change: code red for a healthy future
The Lancet. 2021 DOI PDF
Quantitative assessment of agricultural sustainability reveals divergent priorities among nations
One Earth 4 (9) 2021 DOI PDF
Multi-criteria suitability analysis for neglected and underutilised crop species in South Africa
PLoS One, Jan 2021 DOI
A review of the interactions between biodiversity, agriculture, climate change, and international trade: research and policy priorities
One Earth 4 (1) 2021 DOI PDF
Trading water: virtual water flows through interstate cereal trade in India
Environmental Research Letters 15. 2020 DOI PDF
The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change
Watts N, ... , C Dalin et al.
The Lancet 397 (10269). 2020 DOI PDF
Multi-scale analysis of the water-energy-food nexus in the Gulf region
Environmental Research Letters 2020 ISSN 1748-9326 DOI PDF
Groundwater depletion embedded in domestic transfers & international exports of the United States
Gumidyala S, P Ruess, M Konar, L Marston, C Dalin and Y Wada
Water Resources Research 56. 2020 DOI PDF
Impacts of global food systems on biodiversity and water: the vision of two reports and future aims
Dalin C and C. Outhwaite
One Earth, Cell Press. 2019 INVITED DOI PDF
The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change
Watts N, ... , C Dalin et al.
The Lancet 394 (10211). 2019 DOI PDF
Environmental footprint family to address local to planetary sustainability and deliver on the SDGs
Vanham D, A Leip, C Dalin et al.
Science of the Total Environment. 2019 DOI PDF
Unsustainable groundwater use for global food production and related international trade
Dalin C, M Taniguchi and T Green
Global Sustainability, Cambridge University Press. 2019 INVITED DOI PDF
“More crop per drop”: Exploring India's cereal water use since 2005
Kayatz B, F Harris, J Hillier, T Adhya, D Nayak, R Green, P Smith C Dalin and A Dangour
Science of the Total Environment, 673, 207-217. 2019 DOI PDF
Water Debt indicator reveals where agricultural water use exceeds sustainable levels
Tuninetti M, S Tamea and C Dalin
Water Resources Research. 2019 DOI PDF
Global virtual water trade and the hydrological cycle: Patterns, drivers, and socio-environmental impacts
D'Odorico P, ... C Dalin et al.
Environmental Research Letters. 2019 DOI PDF
Managing China's coal-dominated power system for CO2, air pollution and water objectives
Peng W, Wagner F, Ramana MV, Zhai H, Small M, Zhang X, Dalin C and Mauzerall D
Nature Sustainability. 2018 DOI PDF
Hydropower plans in eastern and southern Africa increase risk of concurrent climate related electricity supply disruption
Conway D, C Dalin, T Obsorn and W Landman
Nature Energy, 2, 946–953. 2017 DOI PDF
Groundwater depletion embedded in international food trade
Dalin C, Y Wada, T Kastner and M Puma
Nature, 543, 700-704. 2017 DOI PDF
Environmental impacts of food trade via resource use and greenhouse gas emissions
Dalin C and I Rodriguez-Iturbe
Environmental Research Letters 11, 3, 5012. INVITED 2016 DOI PDF
Water resources transfers through southern African food trade: water efficiency & climate signals
Environmental Research Letters, 11, 1, 5005. 2016 DOI PDF
Climate and southern Africa's water-energy-food nexus
Nature Climate Change, 5, 837-846. 2015 DOI PDF
Balancing water resource conservation and food security in China
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Early Edition, March 30 2015 DOI PDF
Water resources transfers through Chinese interprovincial and foreign food trade
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Early Edition, June 23 2014 DOI PDF
Modeling past and future structure of the global virtual water trade network
Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L24402. 2012 DOI PDF
Evolution of the global virtual water trade network
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 16, 5989-5994. 2012 DOI PDF
Temporal dynamics of blue and green virtual water trade networks
Water Resources Research 48, W07509. 2012 DOI PDF
Structure and controls of the global virtual water trade network
Geophysical Research Letters 38, L10403. 2011 DOI PDF
Water for food: The global virtual water trade network
Water Resources Research 47, W05520. 2011 DOI PDF
BOOK CHAPTERS:
A Water Perspective on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
in The SAGE Handbook of Nature, ed. by T Marsden, SAGE Publications (2018) DOI PDF
Virtual Water Trade Among World Countries Associated With Food Trade
Dalin C and
Elsevier Encyclopedia of Food Security and Sustainability (2018) URL (PDF on request)
Sustainable Pathways for Meeting Food Demand
Elsevier Encyclopedia of Food Security and Sustainability (2018) URL (PDF on request)
Elements of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in China
Dalin C and P Andrews-Speed, in Handbook of the Resource Nexus, ed. by R. Bleischwitz
Routeledge-Earthscan (2018) URL
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