Jesse Rodenbiker is an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University with the Center on Contemporary China at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, an Assistant Teaching Professor of Geography at Rutgers University, a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, and a China Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Rodenbiker is a human-environment geographer and interdisciplinary social scientist focusing on environmental governance, urbanization, and social inequality in China and globally. He has served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at Cornell University and as a Visiting Scholar at Sichuan University in the School of Public Administration and Department of Land Resource Management. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley.
Rodenbiker is the author of Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China (2023, Cornell University Press). He has written for Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Land Use Policy, and other venues.
Selected Recent Works:
Jesse Rodenbiker. (2022). Green Silk Roads, Partner State Development, and Environmental Governance: Belt and Road Infrastructures on the Sino-East African Frontier. Critical Asian Studies. DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2022.2150249
Jesse Rodenbiker (2022). High Stakes: China's Leadership in Global Biodiversity Governance. New Security Beat. 11 (3).
Jesse Rodenbiker (2022). Social Justice in China's Cities: Urban-Rural Restructuring and Justice-Oriented Planning. Transactions in Planning and Urban Research. 1 (1-2): 184-198.
Jesse Rodenbiker. (2022). Urban Oceans: Social Differentiation in the City and the Sea. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. (2022). DOI: 10.1177/25148486221078690
Jesse Rodenbiker. (2021). Making Ecology Developmental: China's Environmental Sciences and Green Modernization in Global Context. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 111 (7), 1931-1948
Jesse Rodenbiker. (2020). Urban Ecological Enclosures: Conservation Planning, Peri-urban Displacement, and Local State Formations in China. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 44(4), 691-710
Jesse Rodenbiker. (2019). Uneven Incorporation: Volumetric Transitions in Peri-urban China's Conservation Zones. Geoforum. 104, 234-243
Rodenbiker is a human-environment geographer and interdisciplinary social scientist focusing on environmental governance, urbanization, and social inequality in China and globally. He has served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at Cornell University and as a Visiting Scholar at Sichuan University in the School of Public Administration and Department of Land Resource Management. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley.
Rodenbiker is the author of Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China (2023, Cornell University Press). He has written for Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Land Use Policy, and other venues.
Selected Recent Works:
Jesse Rodenbiker. (2022). Green Silk Roads, Partner State Development, and Environmental Governance: Belt and Road Infrastructures on the Sino-East African Frontier. Critical Asian Studies. DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2022.2150249
Jesse Rodenbiker (2022). High Stakes: China's Leadership in Global Biodiversity Governance. New Security Beat. 11 (3).
Jesse Rodenbiker (2022). Social Justice in China's Cities: Urban-Rural Restructuring and Justice-Oriented Planning. Transactions in Planning and Urban Research. 1 (1-2): 184-198.
Jesse Rodenbiker. (2022). Urban Oceans: Social Differentiation in the City and the Sea. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. (2022). DOI: 10.1177/25148486221078690
Jesse Rodenbiker. (2021). Making Ecology Developmental: China's Environmental Sciences and Green Modernization in Global Context. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 111 (7), 1931-1948
Jesse Rodenbiker. (2020). Urban Ecological Enclosures: Conservation Planning, Peri-urban Displacement, and Local State Formations in China. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 44(4), 691-710
Jesse Rodenbiker. (2019). Uneven Incorporation: Volumetric Transitions in Peri-urban China's Conservation Zones. Geoforum. 104, 234-243
