Service & Outreach

• Member, Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), 2023-present

• Member, the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM), 2020-present

  • Member, CIM Environment and Social Responsibility Society; CIM Management & Economics Society

• Member, the International Society of Industrial Ecology (ISIE), 2015-present

  • Best Paper Awards Coordinator, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2019-present

• Member, the International Input-Output Association (IIOA), 2016-2021

• Student Member, the Institute of Life Cycle Assessment, Japan (ILCAJ), 2012-2015

• Founding Member, UTokyo Alumni Association of Canada-East Chapter, 2021-present

• Co-founder, Chinese Association of Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo (CASTUT), 2015-2018

• Editorial Services:

  • Assoicate Editor, Environment, Development and Sustainability (Springer), 2024-present

  • Associate Editor, AQUA - Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society (IWA), 2022-present

  • Editorial Board Member, Transactions in Energy and Sustainability (SAGE), 2024-present

  • Editorial Board Member, Circular Economy (Tsinghua), 2023-present

  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier), 2019-present

  • Guest Editor, Clean Technologies and Recycling (AIMS), 2021-2022

    • Special issue on "Critical materials for low carbon society"

• Ad-hoc Roles:

  • Reviewer for Journals:  

J. Clean. Prod., Resour Conserv Recy., Environ. Sci. Technol., Ecol. Model., EIA Review, J. Ind. Ecol., Sci. Total Environ., Waste Manag., J. Mater. Cycles Waste., Appl. Energy, J. Urban Manag., BioResources, Renew. Sust. Energ. Rev., Urban Clim., Politics Gov., Util. Policy, Environ. Res. Lett., Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res., Environ. Sci. Water Res. Technol., Environ. Sci. Ecotech., Technol. Forecast. Soc. Change, Front. Sustain. Cities, Front. Environ. Sci., J. Hazard. Mater. Adv., Sustain. Cities Soc., Front. Energy Res., Environ. Res. Commun., Nature Water, CIM Journal, J. Environ. Sci., Environ. Res.: Infrastruct. Sustain., Sci. Data, Geosci. Front., Circ. Econ., Fuel, Resour. Policy., Public Manag. Rev., Sci. Rep., J. Urban Aff., Int. J. Sustain. Dev. World Ecol., China Technol. Sci., J. Water Resour. Plan. Manag., Front. Eng. Manag., Sustain. Dev., Innov. Energy, Nat. Resour. Forum.

• • Reviewer for Grants (since 2021):

Mitacs Accelerate (Canada) (5) 

• Organizer for Conferences, Workshops, and Symposia:

  • Co-convenor, symposium: "Towards Sustainable Circularity: Mining to Materials" at the 61st Annual Conference of Metallurgists (COM 2022), Montreal, Canada.

  • Session chair, session: "Decarbonization" at the 2023 Annual Conference of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM 2023), Montreal, Canada.

  • Co-convenor, special session: "Urban Climate Action towards Carbon Neutrality with Enhanced Resource Circularity" at the 11th International Conference on Industrial Ecology (ISIE2023), Leiden, Netherlands.

  • Scientific Committee Member, the 1st International Conference on Urban Science and Sustainability (USS 2023), Xiamen, China. 

  • Scientific Committee Member, the Joint Socio-Economic Metabolism (SEM) Section Conference and the Asia-Pacific (AP) Conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE 2024), Beijing, China.

• Zhang, Q., Critical Review of Mining's Sustainability Performance towards the Achievement of the SDGs. The 1st International Conference on Urban Science and Sustainability (USS), Xiamen, China, 15 DEC 2023.

• Zhang, Q., How Can Material Flow Analysis Contribute to Decarbonization Pathways? BEST 402 Industrial Ecology, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 19 OCT 2023 [Online].

• Zhang, Q., Mining's Roles in Global Climate Action. APSC 200 Engineering Design & Practice II, the Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, 19 OCT 2023.

• Zhang, Q., Knowledge Synthesis of the Mine Life Cycle and the Mining Value Chain to Address Climate Change. The World Resources Forum 2023: Rethinking Value — Resources for Planetary Wellbeing, Geneva, Switzerland, 5 SEP 2023 [Online].

• Zhang, Q., The Interplay Between Resource Use and Climate Change in Industrial Systems. School of Environmental Studies Colloquium Series (2022-2023), School of Environmental Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, 30 MAR 2023.

• Zhang, Q. & Johnson, A., Expanding the Boundaries of Mining Education: The Many Facets of Sustainability. Mining and Sustainability Event, Department of Geological Science and Geological Engineering and the Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, 10 NOV 2022.

• Zhang, Q., Envisioning Low-Carbon Pathways for Material Circularity. Queen’s Engineering Research Networking Day, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, 12 OCT 2022.

• Zhang, Q., Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Accounting for Urban Water Systems and China's Opportunities to Reduce the GHG Footprint of the Water Sector. Chinese Youth Forum on Climate Change Economics (Public Lectures), Beijing, China, 6 JUL 2022 [Online].

• Zhang, Q., Life-Cycle Assessment and Its Uncertainties. Lectures for Environmental Statistics and Research Methods, United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), Tokyo, Japan, 27 JUN 2022 [Online].

• Zhang, Q., Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated with China's Urban Water Infrastructure. 2021 Symposium on Environmental Governance and Ecological Restoration, College of Environment and Ecology, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, 3 DEC 2021 [Online]. 

• Zhang, Q., Insights of Material Flow Analysis into the Low-Carbon Infrastructure Transition. Circular, Low-carbon, and Green Development Seminar Series, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, 16 NOV 2020 [Online].

• Zhang, Q., Inter-regional spillover of China's sulfur dioxide (SO2) pollution across the supply chains. School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, 27 DEC 2019.

• Zhang, Q., A Glance of 20-year Governance for the Circular Economy in Japan. Urban Metabolism in Policy and Practice Seminar, Metabolism of Cities funded by the Urban Studies Foundation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 6 JUL 2019.

• Zhang, Q., Water-Energy-Climate nexus: Experiences from China’s urban water sector. Sustainability Seminar Series in Civil Engineering (Fall 2018), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, 19 SEP 2018.