A5004614358- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Chinese history and philosophy
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
DePauw University
2021-2024
George Washington University
2019
University of California, Davis
2018
Brand names can be used to hold plastic companies accountable for their items found polluting the environment. We data from a 5-year (2018-2022) worldwide (84 countries) program identify brands on in environment through 1576 audit events. that 50% of were unbranded, calling mandated producer reporting. The top five globally Coca-Cola Company (11%), PepsiCo (5%), Nestlé (3%), Danone and Altria (2%), accounting 24% total branded count, 56 accounted more than 50%. There was clear strong log-log...
new rules went into effect forcing Shanghai residents and businesses to sort their garbage four categories (wet, dry, hazardous, recyclable) under the threat of fines social credit penalties.An explosion media commentary ensued, some supportive but most cynical.The question 'what kind are you?' (你是什么垃圾?)-a shortened version asked by sanitation staff when items being dropped off at stations-came signify inconvenience confusion felt many urban residents.The remark, which also implies that you...
This article juxtaposes two conflicting images of China's environment during the socialist Mao era. One is an influential scholarly account environmental destruction due to Mao's insistence that "man must conquer nature" (ren ding sheng tian). The other, provided by a longtime resident Kunming, idyllic description urban material reuse system without waste. different involve variances in very notions nature and on which they are grounded. former posits Chinese tian as equivalent western...
Abstract Rapid urbanization in 21st-century China has been fraught with contested demolition, overdevelopment and shoddy infrastructure short lifespans. By viewing this as having “high metabolism” examining the urban scrap trade that is fuelled by its material outputs, article challenges a common assumption such form of merely wasteful problematic. Crucially, also puts rural migrants into motion way helps to reproduce form. This occurs generating socio-material nodes trading wherein make...
"Hygiene, sociality, and culture in contemporary rural China: the uncanny new village." Asian Anthropology, 18(1), pp. 71–72
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