- China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Water resources management and optimization
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Risk Perception and Management
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Chinese history and philosophy
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
The University of Melbourne
2017-2023
It is commonly understood that political trust reduces public perceptions of various kinds risk. However, this knowledge largely comes from research conducted in liberal democratic states, and so may have little explanatory power China. Though it has an authoritarian government, China enjoyed relatively high levels trust, a unique case which to advance about risk perception. We describe the relationship between perception through analysis results survey 5007 residents Shanghai asking...
A social practice approach to household consumption examines socially produced patterns of practice, and understands these be composed technology, knowledge meaning. This challenges many the assumptions made about how consumers who are supposedly economically rational behave in large-scale municipal water supply systems. Yet for an emerging body scholarship that is sensitive effects context, research on practices notably short studies beyond wealthy liberal democracies. In this paper we...
In China, "rural" can signal backwardness, poverty, remoteness, and inferiority or, alternatively, a kind of utopia or idyll – an escape from urban pressures. Representations on screen contribute to shaping expectation what the rural should be thus play role in facilitating interventionist policies marginalising certain groups people activities. this study we examine on-screen imaginaries Three Gorges region. We consider representations places region recent Chinese films, documentaries,...
Abstract Little is known in the international academic community about Chinese‐language research on water management. To remedy this deficit, paper reviews current mainland Chinese understandings of role large‐scale infrastructures as tools resources We reviewed 461 papers published journals by scholars. This review suggests that dominant approach to management reflects confines government priorities—large‐scale, concrete‐heavy, infrastructure‐based means moving around country so meet...
Ecological agriculture (EA) is commonly regarded as a top-down agricultural reform plan in China. However, the policy process more complicated than that. Taking Xichuan, Henan province, water source area for Middle Route of South–North-Water-Transfer (MR-SNWT) project, case study, this paper tracks participation various agencies and their interactions with Xichuan's government, to reveal how EA has been integrated into local rural development. As agents were assembled promote development,...
This bilingual systematic review captures 10 years (2010–2020) of debates and evidence from human geography research that foregrounds the lived experiences Chinese citizens in accounts environmental change. In this first everyday geographies, we analyse 157 papers English mainland journals, using a range thematic categorisations to capture qualitative environment–society on China. Given quantitative disparity between (128) (29) papers, focus primarily literature but bring into conversation...