KuoRay Mao’s environmental governance research published by Journal of Agrarian Change

KuoRay Mao and co-author Eric A. Hanley, University of Kansas, published “State corporatism and environmental harm: Tax farming and desertification in northwestern China” in Journal of Agrarian Change in April 2018. Abstract Research on environmental governance in China has shown that centre–local relations often influence the implementation and efficacy of environmental regulations. By examining changes in resource allocation […]

Critical Criminology publishes KuoRay Mao’s research on environmental harm

KuoRay Mao published “The Treadmill of Taxation: Desertification and Organizational State Deviance in Minqin Oasis, China” in Critical Criminology in February 2018. Abstract Green criminology has long proposed a political economy approach towards the study of environmental harm. This paper engages with that emerging scholarship by examining how land reclamation and organizational state deviance contributed […]