Jesse Rodenbiker
Postdoctoral Associate, Natural Resources and the Environment
Jesse Rodenbiker is a human-environment geographer and interdisciplinary social scientist whose research focuses on environmental governance, urbanization, and sustainable development in China.
Rodenbiker is a Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sustainability with the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment. Rodenbiker is completing a book manuscript on the intersections of ecology, urban conservation planning, state formation, and displacement - titled Ecological States: Politics of Green Governance and Urbanization in China. At Cornell, Rodenbiker began the research project - Sustainable Maritime China - which explores the intersections of global wildlife conservation, urban politics of consumption, political economies of rare and endangered ocean species, and maritime territoriality.
Education
- Ph.D. Geography, University of California, Berkeley
- M.A. Asian Studies, University of Oregon
- B.A. Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
Recent Research
- Rodenbiker, J. Making Ecology Developmental: China's Environmental Sciences and Green Modernization in Global Context, (2021), Annals of the American Association of Geographers. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1863766
- Rodenbiker, J. Adapting Participatory Research Methods for Reflexive Environmental Management, (2021), Qualitative Research. DOI: 10.1177/1468794121990966
- Liu, R., Jiang, J., Yu, C., Rodenbiker, J. and Jiang, Y. The Endowment Effect Accompanying Villagers' Withdrawal from Rural Homesteads: Field Evidence from Chengdu, China (2021), Land Use Policy. 105107.
- Rodenbiker, J. Sustainability as Environmental Justice: Uneven Inclusion into China's Ecological Cities (2020), in Olivier Krischer and Luigi Tomba (Eds.) Shades of Green: Notes on Eco-Civilisation. (Made in China Notebooks 1). Sydney University Press.
- Rodenbiker, J. Urban Ecological Enclosures: Conservation Planning, Peri-urban Displacement, and Local State Formations in China. (2020), International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 44(4), 691-710.
- Rodenbiker, J. China's Global Reach: Urban Social Lives of the More-than-Human. (2020). Society and Space. (4) 8.
- Rodenbiker, J. Uneven incorporation: Volumetric Transitions in Peri-urban China’s Conservation Zones. (2019). Geoforum, 104, 234–243. (Elsevier Student Paper Award)
- Rodenbiker, J. Superscribing Sustainability: The Production of China’s Urban Waterscapes. (2017). UPLanD-Journal of Urban Planning, Landscape & environmental Design 2.3 (2017): 71-86.
Research Interests
- Human-Environment Relations
- Conservation
- Urbanization
- Sustainability
- Political Ecology
Awards & Honors
- Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sustainability (2020-2022)
- Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability Faculty Collaboration Grant (2020-2022)
- Chiang-Ching Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Doctoral Fellowship (2018-2019)
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (2016-2017)
- Social Science Research Council, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (2015)
Contact Information
Fernow Hall G08
Ithaca, NY 14853
rodenbiker [at] cornell.edu
Additional Links