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In this episode, we speak with Jesse Rodenbiker, author of the new book Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China. It’s available as a free OA ebook – download it from our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu. Jesse Rodenbiker is Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University with the Center on Contemporary China at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and Assistant Teaching Professor at Rutgers University with the Department of Geography.

We spoke to Jesse about China’s urban sustainability efforts and how they are increasing both state power and social inequality in China, the seminal ideas that shaped the field of ecology in China over the past one-hundred years, and the potential lessons that western nations can learn from China’s ecological initiatives.