Jesse Rodenbiker

Postdoctoral Associate, Natural Resources and the Environment Section

About

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

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