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.
