May Tan‐mullin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1398526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | May Tan‐mullin |
| GIVEN NAMES | May |
| FAMILY NAME | Tan‐mullin |
| SIGNATURE | MULLIN M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham Ningbo China |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0236-5145 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 230 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Disappearing reeds on Chongming Island: An environmental microhistory of Chinese eco-development
This paper critically examines current ecological development planning and practice in China through an environmental microhistory approach. By tracing the gradual disappearance of an indigenous plant - the common reed ( Phragmites australis) - on Chongming Island in Shanghai, which is known for the grand Eco-Islands development plan, this paper reveals the paradox of ecological destruction through eco-development in China. Based on data collecte…
Build in prevention and preparedness to improve climate resilience in coastal cities: Lessons from China’s GBA
From the ancient Silk Road to the belt and road initiative: Narratives, signalling and trust-building
Narratives help in interpreting and understanding surrounding political realities. Yet, the divergence of narratives may also create distrust, and it is an important reason for greatly diverging perceptions of the Belt and Road Initiative between China and the international community. This article explores how trust can be bridged between different narratives. It discusses the notions of trust and how the Chinese concept of ‘brightness’ contribut…
Evolving social capital and networks in the post‐disaster rebuilding process: The case of Typhoon Yolanda
Typhoon Yolanda brought major devastation to the local communities and infrastructure and also reshaped social structures and networks in the Philippines. During the immediate recovery process, bridging, bonding and linking social capital have had differential impacts and outcomes on how communities cope with the aftermath of the disaster. This article investigates the interplay between the various types of social capital and their contributions …
Urban Poverty in the Wake of Environmental Disaster: Rehabilitation, Resilience and Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)
This book investigates the best strategies for poverty alleviation in post-disaster urban environments, and the conditions necessary for the success and scaling up of these strategies. Using the case study of Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) in the Philippines, the strongest typhoon ever to make landfall, the book aims to draw out policy recommendations relevant for other middle- and lower-income countries facing similar urban environmental challenges. H…
Urban Entrepreneurialism and Sustainable Development: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Eco-Developments
In recent years, state entrepreneurialism and the notion of (urban) sustainability have become ever more closely intertwined in China and there has been a proliferation of eco-/low-carbon and other similar sustainability-themed urban initiatives that have helped local states to achieve a favorable position in city competitions. Nevertheless, existing studies do not explain why Chinese sustainability projects are planned/implemented with divergent…
Smoothing the Silk Road through Successful Chinese Corporate Social Responsibility Practices: Evidence from East Africa
The diverse geographical areas involved in the Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) possess different economic, political and social systems that create major challenges for Chinese companies. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) offers one potential risk mitigation strategy to sustain the MSRI’s expansion, and relatedly Chinese investment, in places like Africa. As the research shows, though, CSR, as embraced by Chinese firms, has been specific…
The geopolitics of South–South infrastructure development: Chinese-financed energy projects in the global South
Debates around infrastructure tend to focus on the global North, yet in the global South demand for infrastructure is huge and we see new and emergent actors engaged in finance and construction; China being pre-eminent among them. China’s interests in the global South have grown apace over the past decade, especially in terms of accessing resources and securing infrastructure deals. The role of Chinese banks and State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in …
The making and remaking of ecological space in China: The political ecology of Chongming Eco-Island
Disequilibrium in Development Finance: The Contested Politics of Institutional Accountability and Transparency at the World Bank Inspection Panel
This article examines the dynamic nature with which independent accountability mechanisms operate. Focusing on the World Bank, the authors argue that its Inspection Panel evolves according to internal and external pressures. In seeking to achieve equilibrium, and protect its authority and independence, the Panel has gone through several distinct phases: negotiation, emergence, protracted resistance, assertion of independence and authority, renewe…
Large dams, energy justice and the divergence between international, national and local developmental needs and priorities in the global South
This paper investigates from a socio-technical and energy justice perspective the lack of coordination of international, national and local developmental priorities and inclusion of local needs in the decision making process of large dam construction in the global South. The paper argues that the analysis of energy infrastructures as socio-technical systems requires an energy justice approach to capture the true environmental and social nature of…
Bloated bodies and broken bricks: Power, ecology, and inequality in the political economy of natural disaster recovery
Disaster recovery efforts form an essential component of coping with unforeseen events such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and typhoons, some of which will only become more frequent or severe in the face of accelerated climate change. Most of the time, disaster recovery efforts produce net benefits to society. However, depending on their design and governance, some projects can germinate adverse social, political, and economic outcomes. Draw…
The role of international actors in low-carbon transitions of Shenzhen's International Low Carbon City in China
Political economy, poverty, and polycentrism in the Global Environment Facility’s Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) for Climate Change Adaptation
Climate change adaptation refers to altering infrastructure, institutions or ecosystems to respond to the impacts of climate change. Least developed countries often lack the requisite capacity to implement adaptation projects. The Global Environment Facility’s Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) is a scheme where industrialised countries have disbursed $934.5 million in voluntary contributions to support 213 adaptation projects across 51 least …
Dancing to China's Tune: Understanding the Impacts of a Rising China through the Political-Ecology Framework
China has become a great power and it is time for us to take centre stage in the world. (President Xi Jinping, 18 October 2017)
South–South Technology Transfer of Low‐Carbon Innovation: Large Chinese Hydropower Dams in Cambodia
Large dams have been controversially debated for decades due to their large‐scale and often irreversible social and environmental impacts. In the pursuit of low‐carbon energy and climate change mitigation, hydropower is experiencing a new renaissance. At the forefront of this renaissance are Chinese actors as the world's largest hydropower dam‐builders. This paper aims to discuss the role of South–South technology transfer of low‐carbon energy in…
The Shaping of Chinese Corporate Social Responsibility
Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 4/2014: Corporate Social Responsibility: Global Norms and Chinese Forms
Successes and Failures of Corporate Social Responsibility Mechanisms in Chinese Extractive Industries
China's insatiable appetite for natural resources and energy to fuel its national growth is having an increasing impact on the domestic and global environment. Globally, China has turned to resource-rich regions in Africa and South America, at times engaging so-called “rogue states” to secure the resources it requires. Now is a critical juncture at which to encourage socially responsible behaviours in the Chinese extractive sectors, such as adopt…
The potential of corporate environmental responsibility of Chinese state-owned enterprises in Africa
Redefining 'Aid' in the China-Africa Context
Discussions on the politics of Chinese engagement with African development have been marked by increasing concern over Chinese use of aid in exchange for preferential energy deals. Normative liberal discourse criticizes the Chinese for disbursing 'rogue aid' and undermining good governance in the African continent. These criticisms not only ignore the longer-term motivations and modalities of Chinese aid and the historical diversity of Chinese re…
Chinese Migrants in Africa as New Agents of Development? An Analytical Framework
Armed Conflict and Resolutions in Southern Thailand
Since January 2004, southern Thailand has grabbed news headlines as a violent conflict zone, where the insurgency movement has taken the lives of more than 3,500 people. Stemming from various factors ranging from historical resistance to the Thai government to human rights abuses and socioeconomic marginalization, the shadowy movement has managed to infiltrate and gain sympathy among local communities; however, the majority of the local populatio…
Grounding a natural disaster: Thailand and the 2004 tsunami
Drawing on field work in Southern Thailand undertaken in July 2005, the study illuminates the complex and contingent way in which the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 affected communities, households and individuals. The paper problematises the indiscriminate/discriminate patterning of impact and recovery and also makes a case for a delocalised and transnational approach to understanding the impacts of the wave. Using the notion of ‘tsunami …
Re-mapping the politics of aid: The changing structures and networks of humanitarian assistance in post-tsunami Thailand
The 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami caused massive human and economic destruction. In this paper we argue that the international response to the tsunami exemplifies a shift in the way humanitarian aid is sourced and delivered, and tease out a framework for understanding the continuities and discontinuities that led to differential distribution across a range of sites in southern Thailand. On the one hand we examine the degree to which we ca…
The state and its agencies in coastal resources management: The political ecology of fisheries management in Pattani, southern Thailand
Various stakeholders contribute to the current state of resource management in the inshore fisheries of Pattani, southern Thailand. Taking the state, empowered by national legislation, as the main agent of enforcement, this paper uses an actor-oriented approach derived from political ecology to evaluate how key agents in state agencies at provincial and district levels translate Thai political and legal systems at the local level; more specifical…
Large dams, energy justice and the divergence between international, national and local developmental needs and priorities in the global South
This paper investigates from a socio-technical and energy justice perspective the lack of coordination of international, national and local developmental priorities and inclusion of local needs in the decision making process of large dam construction in the global South. The paper argues that the analysis of energy infrastructures as socio-technical systems requires an energy justice approach to capture the true environmental and social nature of…
Chinese Migrants in Africa as New Agents of Development? An Analytical Framework
Redefining 'Aid' in the China-Africa Context
Discussions on the politics of Chinese engagement with African development have been marked by increasing concern over Chinese use of aid in exchange for preferential energy deals. Normative liberal discourse criticizes the Chinese for disbursing 'rogue aid' and undermining good governance in the African continent. These criticisms not only ignore the longer-term motivations and modalities of Chinese aid and the historical diversity of Chinese re…
Bloated bodies and broken bricks: Power, ecology, and inequality in the political economy of natural disaster recovery
Disaster recovery efforts form an essential component of coping with unforeseen events such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and typhoons, some of which will only become more frequent or severe in the face of accelerated climate change. Most of the time, disaster recovery efforts produce net benefits to society. However, depending on their design and governance, some projects can germinate adverse social, political, and economic outcomes. Draw…
The geopolitics of South–South infrastructure development: Chinese-financed energy projects in the global South
Debates around infrastructure tend to focus on the global North, yet in the global South demand for infrastructure is huge and we see new and emergent actors engaged in finance and construction; China being pre-eminent among them. China’s interests in the global South have grown apace over the past decade, especially in terms of accessing resources and securing infrastructure deals. The role of Chinese banks and State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in …
The Indian Ocean tsunami: Socio-economic impacts in Thailand
On the morning of 26 December 2004 large \nareas of coastal southern Thailand were \ntransformed when a tsunami, generated by \na powerful submarine earthquake in the Indian \nOcean, swept ashore. Officially, there were 5395 \nconfirmed deaths in Thailand with another 2932 \npeople listed as missing. \nIn February 2005 a team led by Dr Ben Horton \nof the University of Pennsylvania was awarded an \nSGER grant by the National Science Foundation to…
The state and its agencies in coastal resources management: The political ecology of fisheries management in Pattani, southern Thailand
Various stakeholders contribute to the current state of resource management in the inshore fisheries of Pattani, southern Thailand. Taking the state, empowered by national legislation, as the main agent of enforcement, this paper uses an actor-oriented approach derived from political ecology to evaluate how key agents in state agencies at provincial and district levels translate Thai political and legal systems at the local level; more specifical…
The making and remaking of ecological space in China: The political ecology of Chongming Eco-Island
Smoothing the Silk Road through Successful Chinese Corporate Social Responsibility Practices: Evidence from East Africa
The diverse geographical areas involved in the Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) possess different economic, political and social systems that create major challenges for Chinese companies. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) offers one potential risk mitigation strategy to sustain the MSRI’s expansion, and relatedly Chinese investment, in places like Africa. As the research shows, though, CSR, as embraced by Chinese firms, has been specific…
South–South Technology Transfer of Low‐Carbon Innovation: Large Chinese Hydropower Dams in Cambodia
Large dams have been controversially debated for decades due to their large‐scale and often irreversible social and environmental impacts. In the pursuit of low‐carbon energy and climate change mitigation, hydropower is experiencing a new renaissance. At the forefront of this renaissance are Chinese actors as the world's largest hydropower dam‐builders. This paper aims to discuss the role of South–South technology transfer of low‐carbon energy in…
The Shaping of Chinese Corporate Social Responsibility
Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 4/2014: Corporate Social Responsibility: Global Norms and Chinese Forms
Successes and Failures of Corporate Social Responsibility Mechanisms in Chinese Extractive Industries
China's insatiable appetite for natural resources and energy to fuel its national growth is having an increasing impact on the domestic and global environment. Globally, China has turned to resource-rich regions in Africa and South America, at times engaging so-called “rogue states” to secure the resources it requires. Now is a critical juncture at which to encourage socially responsible behaviours in the Chinese extractive sectors, such as adopt…
Grounding a natural disaster: Thailand and the 2004 tsunami
Drawing on field work in Southern Thailand undertaken in July 2005, the study illuminates the complex and contingent way in which the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 affected communities, households and individuals. The paper problematises the indiscriminate/discriminate patterning of impact and recovery and also makes a case for a delocalised and transnational approach to understanding the impacts of the wave. Using the notion of ‘tsunami …
Disappearing reeds on Chongming Island: An environmental microhistory of Chinese eco-development
This paper critically examines current ecological development planning and practice in China through an environmental microhistory approach. By tracing the gradual disappearance of an indigenous plant - the common reed ( Phragmites australis) - on Chongming Island in Shanghai, which is known for the grand Eco-Islands development plan, this paper reveals the paradox of ecological destruction through eco-development in China. Based on data collecte…
The role of international actors in low-carbon transitions of Shenzhen's International Low Carbon City in China
From the ancient Silk Road to the belt and road initiative: Narratives, signalling and trust-building
Narratives help in interpreting and understanding surrounding political realities. Yet, the divergence of narratives may also create distrust, and it is an important reason for greatly diverging perceptions of the Belt and Road Initiative between China and the international community. This article explores how trust can be bridged between different narratives. It discusses the notions of trust and how the Chinese concept of ‘brightness’ contribut…
Evolving social capital and networks in the post‐disaster rebuilding process: The case of Typhoon Yolanda
Typhoon Yolanda brought major devastation to the local communities and infrastructure and also reshaped social structures and networks in the Philippines. During the immediate recovery process, bridging, bonding and linking social capital have had differential impacts and outcomes on how communities cope with the aftermath of the disaster. This article investigates the interplay between the various types of social capital and their contributions …
Disequilibrium in Development Finance: The Contested Politics of Institutional Accountability and Transparency at the World Bank Inspection Panel
This article examines the dynamic nature with which independent accountability mechanisms operate. Focusing on the World Bank, the authors argue that its Inspection Panel evolves according to internal and external pressures. In seeking to achieve equilibrium, and protect its authority and independence, the Panel has gone through several distinct phases: negotiation, emergence, protracted resistance, assertion of independence and authority, renewe…
Dancing to China's Tune: Understanding the Impacts of a Rising China through the Political-Ecology Framework
China has become a great power and it is time for us to take centre stage in the world. (President Xi Jinping, 18 October 2017)
Re-mapping the politics of aid: The changing structures and networks of humanitarian assistance in post-tsunami Thailand
The 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami caused massive human and economic destruction. In this paper we argue that the international response to the tsunami exemplifies a shift in the way humanitarian aid is sourced and delivered, and tease out a framework for understanding the continuities and discontinuities that led to differential distribution across a range of sites in southern Thailand. On the one hand we examine the degree to which we ca…
The Asian Tsunami, Academics and Academic Research
10.1111/j.0129-7619.2005.00216.x
The Indian Ocean tsunami: Socio-economic impacts in Thailand
On the morning of 26 December 2004 large \nareas of coastal southern Thailand were \ntransformed when a tsunami, generated by \na powerful submarine earthquake in the Indian \nOcean, swept ashore. Officially, there were 5395 \nconfirmed deaths in Thailand with another 2932 \npeople listed as missing. \nIn February 2005 a team led by Dr Ben Horton \nof the University of Pennsylvania was awarded an \nSGER grant by the National Science Foundation to…
Re-mapping the politics of aid: The changing structures and networks of humanitarian assistance in post-tsunami Thailand
The 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami caused massive human and economic destruction. In this paper we argue that the international response to the tsunami exemplifies a shift in the way humanitarian aid is sourced and delivered, and tease out a framework for understanding the continuities and discontinuities that led to differential distribution across a range of sites in southern Thailand. On the one hand we examine the degree to which we ca…
The state and its agencies in coastal resources management: The political ecology of fisheries management in Pattani, southern Thailand
Various stakeholders contribute to the current state of resource management in the inshore fisheries of Pattani, southern Thailand. Taking the state, empowered by national legislation, as the main agent of enforcement, this paper uses an actor-oriented approach derived from political ecology to evaluate how key agents in state agencies at provincial and district levels translate Thai political and legal systems at the local level; more specifical…
Grounding a natural disaster: Thailand and the 2004 tsunami
Drawing on field work in Southern Thailand undertaken in July 2005, the study illuminates the complex and contingent way in which the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 affected communities, households and individuals. The paper problematises the indiscriminate/discriminate patterning of impact and recovery and also makes a case for a delocalised and transnational approach to understanding the impacts of the wave. Using the notion of ‘tsunami …
Chinese Migrants in Africa as New Agents of Development? An Analytical Framework
Armed Conflict and Resolutions in Southern Thailand
Since January 2004, southern Thailand has grabbed news headlines as a violent conflict zone, where the insurgency movement has taken the lives of more than 3,500 people. Stemming from various factors ranging from historical resistance to the Thai government to human rights abuses and socioeconomic marginalization, the shadowy movement has managed to infiltrate and gain sympathy among local communities; however, the majority of the local populatio…
Redefining 'Aid' in the China-Africa Context
Discussions on the politics of Chinese engagement with African development have been marked by increasing concern over Chinese use of aid in exchange for preferential energy deals. Normative liberal discourse criticizes the Chinese for disbursing 'rogue aid' and undermining good governance in the African continent. These criticisms not only ignore the longer-term motivations and modalities of Chinese aid and the historical diversity of Chinese re…
The potential of corporate environmental responsibility of Chinese state-owned enterprises in Africa
The Shaping of Chinese Corporate Social Responsibility
Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 4/2014: Corporate Social Responsibility: Global Norms and Chinese Forms
Successes and Failures of Corporate Social Responsibility Mechanisms in Chinese Extractive Industries
China's insatiable appetite for natural resources and energy to fuel its national growth is having an increasing impact on the domestic and global environment. Globally, China has turned to resource-rich regions in Africa and South America, at times engaging so-called “rogue states” to secure the resources it requires. Now is a critical juncture at which to encourage socially responsible behaviours in the Chinese extractive sectors, such as adopt…
South–South Technology Transfer of Low‐Carbon Innovation: Large Chinese Hydropower Dams in Cambodia
Large dams have been controversially debated for decades due to their large‐scale and often irreversible social and environmental impacts. In the pursuit of low‐carbon energy and climate change mitigation, hydropower is experiencing a new renaissance. At the forefront of this renaissance are Chinese actors as the world's largest hydropower dam‐builders. This paper aims to discuss the role of South–South technology transfer of low‐carbon energy in…
Political economy, poverty, and polycentrism in the Global Environment Facility’s Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) for Climate Change Adaptation
Climate change adaptation refers to altering infrastructure, institutions or ecosystems to respond to the impacts of climate change. Least developed countries often lack the requisite capacity to implement adaptation projects. The Global Environment Facility’s Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) is a scheme where industrialised countries have disbursed $934.5 million in voluntary contributions to support 213 adaptation projects across 51 least …
Dancing to China's Tune: Understanding the Impacts of a Rising China through the Political-Ecology Framework
China has become a great power and it is time for us to take centre stage in the world. (President Xi Jinping, 18 October 2017)
Large dams, energy justice and the divergence between international, national and local developmental needs and priorities in the global South
This paper investigates from a socio-technical and energy justice perspective the lack of coordination of international, national and local developmental priorities and inclusion of local needs in the decision making process of large dam construction in the global South. The paper argues that the analysis of energy infrastructures as socio-technical systems requires an energy justice approach to capture the true environmental and social nature of…
Bloated bodies and broken bricks: Power, ecology, and inequality in the political economy of natural disaster recovery
Disaster recovery efforts form an essential component of coping with unforeseen events such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and typhoons, some of which will only become more frequent or severe in the face of accelerated climate change. Most of the time, disaster recovery efforts produce net benefits to society. However, depending on their design and governance, some projects can germinate adverse social, political, and economic outcomes. Draw…
The role of international actors in low-carbon transitions of Shenzhen's International Low Carbon City in China
Urban Poverty in the Wake of Environmental Disaster: Rehabilitation, Resilience and Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)
This book investigates the best strategies for poverty alleviation in post-disaster urban environments, and the conditions necessary for the success and scaling up of these strategies. Using the case study of Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) in the Philippines, the strongest typhoon ever to make landfall, the book aims to draw out policy recommendations relevant for other middle- and lower-income countries facing similar urban environmental challenges. H…
Urban Entrepreneurialism and Sustainable Development: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Eco-Developments
In recent years, state entrepreneurialism and the notion of (urban) sustainability have become ever more closely intertwined in China and there has been a proliferation of eco-/low-carbon and other similar sustainability-themed urban initiatives that have helped local states to achieve a favorable position in city competitions. Nevertheless, existing studies do not explain why Chinese sustainability projects are planned/implemented with divergent…
Smoothing the Silk Road through Successful Chinese Corporate Social Responsibility Practices: Evidence from East Africa
The diverse geographical areas involved in the Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) possess different economic, political and social systems that create major challenges for Chinese companies. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) offers one potential risk mitigation strategy to sustain the MSRI’s expansion, and relatedly Chinese investment, in places like Africa. As the research shows, though, CSR, as embraced by Chinese firms, has been specific…
The geopolitics of South–South infrastructure development: Chinese-financed energy projects in the global South
Debates around infrastructure tend to focus on the global North, yet in the global South demand for infrastructure is huge and we see new and emergent actors engaged in finance and construction; China being pre-eminent among them. China’s interests in the global South have grown apace over the past decade, especially in terms of accessing resources and securing infrastructure deals. The role of Chinese banks and State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in …
The making and remaking of ecological space in China: The political ecology of Chongming Eco-Island
Disequilibrium in Development Finance: The Contested Politics of Institutional Accountability and Transparency at the World Bank Inspection Panel
This article examines the dynamic nature with which independent accountability mechanisms operate. Focusing on the World Bank, the authors argue that its Inspection Panel evolves according to internal and external pressures. In seeking to achieve equilibrium, and protect its authority and independence, the Panel has gone through several distinct phases: negotiation, emergence, protracted resistance, assertion of independence and authority, renewe…
Evolving social capital and networks in the post‐disaster rebuilding process: The case of Typhoon Yolanda
Typhoon Yolanda brought major devastation to the local communities and infrastructure and also reshaped social structures and networks in the Philippines. During the immediate recovery process, bridging, bonding and linking social capital have had differential impacts and outcomes on how communities cope with the aftermath of the disaster. This article investigates the interplay between the various types of social capital and their contributions …
Build in prevention and preparedness to improve climate resilience in coastal cities: Lessons from China’s GBA
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