Environment
China’s Evolving Vulnerability to Climate Change Impacts: A Spatial Analysis of its Infrastructure System
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Xi (Sisi) HU, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford; Visiting Fellow, China Project Sponsored by the China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. To learn more about our seminar series, visit our website: https://chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminars You can also subscribe to our mailing list by emailing tiffanychan@seas.harvard.edu
China’s National Cap-and-Trade Program: the Promise and the Reality
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: WANG Pu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Co-sponsored by the China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Environment and Natural Resources Program, Harvard Kennedy School. China’s national cap-and-trade program is regarded as a cornerstone of its climate policy outlined in the 13th Five-year plan (2016-2020), published right after the […]
Competing Air Quality and Water Conservation Co-Benefits from Power Sector Decarbonization in China
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: PENG Wei, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Co-sponsored by the China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Environment and Natural Resources Program, Harvard Kennedy School
Long-Term Trend and Spatial Pattern of PM2.5-Induced Premature Mortality in China
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: WANG Haikun, Associate Professor, School of Environment, Nanjing University Sponsored by the China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. With rapid economic growth, China has witnessed increasingly frequent and severe haze and smog episodes over the past decade, posing serious health impacts to the Chinese population, especially those in densely populated […]
Traces: Dark Clouds – Special One-Day Photography Exhibition
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker/Photographer: Ian Teh Asia Centers Lounge • First Floor • CGIS South Building This event is part of the Environment in Asia series at the Fairbank Center. Ian Teh is an award-winning […]
Environment in Asia Series: “On the Rare Earth Frontier: How and Where We Acquire the Elements of our Possible Futures”
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Julie Klinger, Asst. Professor of International Relations, Boston University Julie Michelle Klinger specializes in development, environment, and security politics in Latin America and China in comparative and global perspective. As a geographer, Dr. Klinger’s research emphasizes in-depth fieldwork to examine the processes through which resource frontiers are produced at local and global scales. She has […]
Hidden Air: Urbanization, the Built Environment, and Indoor Air Quality in China
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Gary Adamkiewicz, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Disparities, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health China’s recent economic growth and rate of urbanization are unprecedented […]
Ancestral Halls: Their Life After Death
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesFrom the late fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century over 6,000 ancestral halls (祠堂) were constructed in Huizhou 徽州, a prefecture at the southern end of Anhui province. Usually understood to represent the growing attachment of families to the establishment of lineage authority in their villages, Huizhou’s ancestral halls soon acquired a variety of functions […]
Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China: Cases and Reform
Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Barbara Finamore, Senior Attorney and Asia Director, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) On January 1, 2015, amendments to China’s Environmental Protection Law went into effect that would allow an estimated 700 Chinese NGOs to bring lawsuits against polluters on behalf of the public interest. The Supreme People’s Court then issued an authoritative “interpretation” that provides […]
Building Energy Efficiency Regulations in China: Policies and Trends
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Barbara Finamore, Senior Attorney and Asia Director, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Abstract: Energy used in buildings is responsible for 30% of China’s CO2 emissions, a percentage that is expected to grow […]
Environment in Asia Seminar: “Layer upon Layer: Experience, Ecology, Engineering, Heritage, and (most of all) History in the Making of China’s Agricultural Terraces”
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts Amherst Professor Schmalzer's research focuses on social, cultural, and political aspects of the history of science in modern China. Her first book, The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008 and won the Sharlin Memorial Award from […]
Ecologies of Enclosure: Reconfiguring the Black Soldier Fly for Urban Waste Management in Guangzhou
HUCE Seminar Room 440 26 Oxford St. - Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Amy Zhang, Fairbank Center An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow