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Daniel Dean Moran

Seniorforsker

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Environmental Impacts and Sustainability

Trondheim

dmor@nilu.no

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Daniel Moran is an environmental economist whose work quantifies the biophysical resources used by the economy. He is an active contributor to global multi-region input-output models (MRIOs) which provide digital twins of the world economy and are used to generate Scope 3 carbon footprint results. Dr. Moran also works with Scope 1 GHG emissions models. His work using data science to develop high-resolution environmental footprints has been featured in National Geographic, the New York Times, and The Economist.

Before starting his academic career Dr. Moran worked on Wall Street pricing ESG risk at MSCI and assisted Nobel laureate Paul Romer writing a Principles of Economics textbook.

Awards:

Clarivate/Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2019. Among all scientists and social scientists globally, Highly Cited Researchers™ are 1 in 1,000. Stanford/Elsevier/Scopus highly cited researcher during 2021, 2020, 2019 (Top 1.5% percentile in Environmental Sciences; top 3% in Economics)

Education

  • 2013 – PhD, School of Physics, The University of Sydney
  • 2007 – MS, Environmental Studies and Sustainability, Lund University
  • 2001 – BA, Philosophy, Whitman College

Key words:

data science; industrial ecology; environmental economics; carbon footprinting; biodiversity footprints; embodied water; scope 3; consumption-based accounting; LCA; input-output; material flow analysis; high performance computing

Daniel Dean Moran has 15 publications at NILU:

Mapping socioeconomic exposure to climate change-related events – coastal floods in Norway

Barre, Francis Isidore; Bouman, Evert Alwin; Hertwich, Edgar; Moran, Daniel Dean

2024

Drivers and sector disaggregation of projections and trajectories. ETC technical paper.

Akkermans, Sander; Lopez, Pepa; Chornet, Javier; Petrides, Yannis Robles; Vella, Annabel; Dauwe, Tom; Ebrahimi, Babak; Bouman, Evert; Moran, Daniel

2024

Reply to Bawa and Liu: Want sustainable food? Embrace complexity

Hoang, Nguyen Tien; Taherzadeh, Oliver; Ohashi, Haruka; Yonekura, Yusuke; Nishijima, Shota; Yamabe, Masaki; Matsui, Tetsuya; Matsuda, Hiroyuki; Moran, Daniel; Kanemoto, Keiichiro

2023

OpenGHGMap

Moran, Daniel

2023

Reply to: The environmental footprint of fisheries

Halpern, Benjamin S.; Frazier, Melanie; Rayner, Paul-Eric; Clawson, Gage; Blanchard, Julia L.; Cottrell, Richard S.; Froehlich, Halley E.; Gephart, Jessica A.; Jacobsen, Nis Sand; Kuempel, Caitlin D.; Moran, Daniel; Nash, Kirsty L.; Williams, David R.

2023

Leveraging opportunity of low carbon transition by super-emitter cities in China

Zheng, Heran; Zhang, Zengkai; Dietzenbacher, Erik; Zhou, Ya; Többen, Johannes Reinhard; Feng, Kuishuang; Moran, Daniel; Jiang, Meng; Shan, Yuli; Wang, Daoping; Liu, Xiaoyu; Li, Li; Zhao, Dandan; Meng, Jing; Ou, Jiamin; Guan, Dabo

2023

Rising carbon inequality and its driving factors from 2005 to 2015

Zheng, Heran; Wood, Richard John; Moran, Daniel Dean; Feng, Kuishuang; Tisserant, Alexandre Fabien Regis; Jiang, Meng; Hertwich, Edgar

2023

Mapping potential conflicts between global agriculture and terrestrial conservation

Hoang, Nguyen Tien; Taherzadeh, Oliver; Ohashi, Haruka; Yonekura, Yusuke; Nishijima, Shota; Yamabe, Masaki; Matsui, Testuya; Matsuda, Hiroyuki; Moran, Daniel Dean; Kanemoto, Keiichiro

2023

Daniel Moran is an environmental economist whose work quantifies the biophysical resources used by the economy. He is an active contributor to global multi-region input-output models (MRIOs) which provide digital twins of the world economy and are used to generate Scope 3 carbon footprint results. Dr. Moran also works with Scope 1 GHG emissions models. His work using data science to develop high-resolution environmental footprints has been featured in National Geographic, the New York Times, and The Economist.

Before starting his academic career Dr. Moran worked on Wall Street pricing ESG risk at MSCI and assisted Nobel laureate Paul Romer writing a Principles of Economics textbook.

Awards:

Clarivate/Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2019. Among all scientists and social scientists globally, Highly Cited Researchers™ are 1 in 1,000. Stanford/Elsevier/Scopus highly cited researcher during 2021, 2020, 2019 (Top 1.5% percentile in Environmental Sciences; top 3% in Economics)

Education

  • 2013 – PhD, School of Physics, The University of Sydney
  • 2007 – MS, Environmental Studies and Sustainability, Lund University
  • 2001 – BA, Philosophy, Whitman College

Key words:

data science; industrial ecology; environmental economics; carbon footprinting; biodiversity footprints; embodied water; scope 3; consumption-based accounting; LCA; input-output; material flow analysis; high performance computing

Daniel Dean Moran has 15 publications at NILU:

Mapping socioeconomic exposure to climate change-related events – coastal floods in Norway

Barre, Francis Isidore; Bouman, Evert Alwin; Hertwich, Edgar; Moran, Daniel Dean

2024

Drivers and sector disaggregation of projections and trajectories. ETC technical paper.

Akkermans, Sander; Lopez, Pepa; Chornet, Javier; Petrides, Yannis Robles; Vella, Annabel; Dauwe, Tom; Ebrahimi, Babak; Bouman, Evert; Moran, Daniel

2024

Reply to Bawa and Liu: Want sustainable food? Embrace complexity

Hoang, Nguyen Tien; Taherzadeh, Oliver; Ohashi, Haruka; Yonekura, Yusuke; Nishijima, Shota; Yamabe, Masaki; Matsui, Tetsuya; Matsuda, Hiroyuki; Moran, Daniel; Kanemoto, Keiichiro

2023

OpenGHGMap

Moran, Daniel

2023

Reply to: The environmental footprint of fisheries

Halpern, Benjamin S.; Frazier, Melanie; Rayner, Paul-Eric; Clawson, Gage; Blanchard, Julia L.; Cottrell, Richard S.; Froehlich, Halley E.; Gephart, Jessica A.; Jacobsen, Nis Sand; Kuempel, Caitlin D.; Moran, Daniel; Nash, Kirsty L.; Williams, David R.

2023

Leveraging opportunity of low carbon transition by super-emitter cities in China

Zheng, Heran; Zhang, Zengkai; Dietzenbacher, Erik; Zhou, Ya; Többen, Johannes Reinhard; Feng, Kuishuang; Moran, Daniel; Jiang, Meng; Shan, Yuli; Wang, Daoping; Liu, Xiaoyu; Li, Li; Zhao, Dandan; Meng, Jing; Ou, Jiamin; Guan, Dabo

2023

Rising carbon inequality and its driving factors from 2005 to 2015

Zheng, Heran; Wood, Richard John; Moran, Daniel Dean; Feng, Kuishuang; Tisserant, Alexandre Fabien Regis; Jiang, Meng; Hertwich, Edgar

2023

Mapping potential conflicts between global agriculture and terrestrial conservation

Hoang, Nguyen Tien; Taherzadeh, Oliver; Ohashi, Haruka; Yonekura, Yusuke; Nishijima, Shota; Yamabe, Masaki; Matsui, Testuya; Matsuda, Hiroyuki; Moran, Daniel Dean; Kanemoto, Keiichiro

2023