J A Zinda
Biographic Data
| ID | 19888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J A Zinda |
| GIVEN NAMES | J A |
| FAMILY NAME | Zinda |
| SIGNATURE | ZINDA J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7124-5916 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 123 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Who purchases flood insurance, and why? Evidence from the Hudson valley
Justice and injustice under authoritarian environmentalism: Investigating tensions between forestland property rights and environmental conservation in China
Unveiling Perspectives and Insights: A Survey of Environmental and Natural Resource Sociologists and Social Scientists
Existing literature on the intersection of environmental sociology (ES) and natural resource sociology (NRS) suggests that a better understanding of the diverse perceptions, experiences, and practices of individual researchers in these subfields are informative in understanding the trajectory of environmental and natural resource sociologies including where more convergence might occur. We present the descriptive results of an online survey of me…
Unpacking Authoritarian Environmental Governance
Debates about whether authoritarian or democratic environmental governance have the capacity to weather the present crises tend to gloss over variation across and within regimes. Authoritarian environmental governance plays out in diverse ways; comparing across contexts can help us understand its varying outcomes. Drawing on James C. Scott’s characterization of authoritarian high modernism, I identify four dimensions along which projects of autho…
How Homeownership, Race, and Social Connections Influence Flood Preparedness Measures: Evidence from 2 Small U.S. Cities
Climate change and changing built environments are changing flooding regimes. Since flood management policies often rely on household preparedness, understanding what factors shape household flood preparedness measures is imperative. We focus on three dimensions: race, participation in local organizations, and homeownership as moderated by flood experience. With survey data from two small riverside cities in the northeastern United States, we exa…
“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Power”: A 25-year Strategic Advocacy Voyage of an Environmental NGO in China
Advocacy by civil society organizations such as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is especially challenging in a constraining political context. The Government of China has invited such organizations to assist in addressing emergent environmental problems while also limiting political challenges from them. NGOs need to respond to these political externalities strategically. This paper navigates a quarter-century advocacy voyage by an iconic C…
Different Hazards, Different Responses: Assessments of Flooding and Covid-19 Risks among Upstate New York Residents
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and extreme flooding events have recently taken enormous tolls. Drawing on research into differential risk responses across hazards, the authors examine how different social processes surrounding risk from flooding and COVID-19 shape how people respond to each hazard. Data from a household survey of 498 residents in two cities in the northeastern United States reveal that levels of concern and prot…
How Gender Dynamics Shape Off-farm Work in Upland Southwest China☆
Gendered demands for productive and reproductive labor differently affect men's and women's decisions about not only whether to undertake off-farm work, but where. With data from a survey of households in southwestern China, we examine the effects of individual, household, and community attributes on decisions to take local or distant off-farm work. Men's and women's off-farm work decisions respond differently to care and farmwork needs. For wome…
Flood risk perception and responses among urban residents in the northeastern United States
Urban socioeconomic inequality and biodiversity often converge, but not always: A global meta-analysis
It is through urban biodiversity that the majority of humans experience nature on a daily basis. As cities expand globally, it is increasingly important to understand how biodiversity is shaped by human decisions, institutions, and environments. In some cities, research has documented convergence between high socioeconomic status (SES) and high species diversity. Yet, other studies show that residents with low SES live amid high biodiversity or t…
Regenerating Scholarly Ecologies: Thoughts on Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Qin and colleagues’ paper “Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Bibliometric Analysis of Environmental and Resource Sociology” revives a thought-provoking conversation about relationships between environmental and natural resource sociologies. In this commentary, I ask whether we might learn more by looking beyond the forest and trees to other ecosystems and organisms in our “scholarly ecology.” We might benefit from thinking further about the many…
Tim Bartley, Rules without Rights: Land, Labor, and Private Authority in the Global Economy
Designating tree crops as forest: Land competition and livelihood effects mediate tree crops impact on natural forest cover in south China
Ecological civilization in the mountains: How walnuts boomed and busted in southwest China
As projects of commodification and environmental protection converge, it is crucial to understand how authoritarian states attempt to secure commodities, conservation, and control in internal peripheries. We examine how state authorities in China have incorporated walnut cultivation into a project of 'building ecological civilization' that links rural development with environmental protection and national security priorities, drawing on fieldwork…
Metabolic fractures: How household livelihood practices differentiate agricultural input use in southwest China
Explaining heterogeneous afforestation outcomes: How community officials and households mediate tree cover change in China
China's summons for environmental sociology
From demand for natural resources to sustainability initiatives, everything seems to hinge on China. China's environmental entanglements call out for the analysis and understanding that environmental sociologists practice. Environmental sociologists from within and beyond China have begun to explore how society, polity, and ecology intersect, but we have yet to fully take on the challenges that China's environmental struggles pose. This article f…
Land Tenure Legacies, Household Life Cycles, and Livelihood Strategies in Upland China
Land tenure regimes shape how households use labor and other resources to construct livelihoods. Within a given tenure regime, shifting land-labor relationships over the household life cycle present households with changing trade-offs. In China, alongside growing market exchange of labor and produce, the legacies of land distribution following decollectivization-in particular, secure access to land and constraints on land transfers-create distinc…
China’s peasant agriculture and rural society: Changing paradigms of farming
As a seemingly inexorable assault on China’s small farms proceeds, debates on agrarian questions in China blossom anew. Special issues in this journal and several others, along with a steady stream
Forest transitions in Chinese villages: Explaining community-level variation under the returning forest to farmland program
Dual-function forests in the returning farmland to forest program and the flexibility of environmental policy in China
Recasting the rural: State, society and environment in contemporary China
Tourism dynamos: Selective commodification and developmental conservation in China’s protected areas
Varying Impacts of Tourism Participation on Natural Resource Use in Communities in Southwest China
China’s disappearing countryside: Towards sustainable land governance for the poor
Recasting the rural: State, society and environment in contemporary China
Dual-function forests in the returning farmland to forest program and the flexibility of environmental policy in China
Ecological civilization in the mountains: How walnuts boomed and busted in southwest China
As projects of commodification and environmental protection converge, it is crucial to understand how authoritarian states attempt to secure commodities, conservation, and control in internal peripheries. We examine how state authorities in China have incorporated walnut cultivation into a project of 'building ecological civilization' that links rural development with environmental protection and national security priorities, drawing on fieldwork…
Tourism dynamos: Selective commodification and developmental conservation in China’s protected areas
Hazards of Collaboration: Local State Co-optation of a New Protected-Area Model in Southwest China
Collaborative and market-oriented conservation interventions aim to achieve conservation and livelihood improvement outcomes by bringing people together over win–win solutions. Based on intensive interviews and document analysis, this study examines an effort to establish a new protected area in Yunnan Province, China, as an attempt at collaboration to establish a market-based conservation intervention that would include and benefit protected are…
Forest transitions in Chinese villages: Explaining community-level variation under the returning forest to farmland program
Explaining heterogeneous afforestation outcomes: How community officials and households mediate tree cover change in China
Designating tree crops as forest: Land competition and livelihood effects mediate tree crops impact on natural forest cover in south China
Land Tenure Legacies, Household Life Cycles, and Livelihood Strategies in Upland China
Land tenure regimes shape how households use labor and other resources to construct livelihoods. Within a given tenure regime, shifting land-labor relationships over the household life cycle present households with changing trade-offs. In China, alongside growing market exchange of labor and produce, the legacies of land distribution following decollectivization-in particular, secure access to land and constraints on land transfers-create distinc…
Metabolic fractures: How household livelihood practices differentiate agricultural input use in southwest China
China’s disappearing countryside: Towards sustainable land governance for the poor
Justice and injustice under authoritarian environmentalism: Investigating tensions between forestland property rights and environmental conservation in China
Understanding the Challenges and Rewards of Social-Ecological Research in China
Interest in collaborative research on Chinese social and ecological systems has grown dramatically in recent decades. While international researchers are giving increased attention to China, foreign scholars, especially those new to China, are often unsure of the best way to find collaborators, garner sponsorship, and pursue research goals. Understanding research incentives for Chinese scientists, the culture of relationships, research topic sens…
How Homeownership, Race, and Social Connections Influence Flood Preparedness Measures: Evidence from 2 Small U.S. Cities
Climate change and changing built environments are changing flooding regimes. Since flood management policies often rely on household preparedness, understanding what factors shape household flood preparedness measures is imperative. We focus on three dimensions: race, participation in local organizations, and homeownership as moderated by flood experience. With survey data from two small riverside cities in the northeastern United States, we exa…
How Gender Dynamics Shape Off-farm Work in Upland Southwest China☆
Gendered demands for productive and reproductive labor differently affect men's and women's decisions about not only whether to undertake off-farm work, but where. With data from a survey of households in southwestern China, we examine the effects of individual, household, and community attributes on decisions to take local or distant off-farm work. Men's and women's off-farm work decisions respond differently to care and farmwork needs. For wome…
China's summons for environmental sociology
From demand for natural resources to sustainability initiatives, everything seems to hinge on China. China's environmental entanglements call out for the analysis and understanding that environmental sociologists practice. Environmental sociologists from within and beyond China have begun to explore how society, polity, and ecology intersect, but we have yet to fully take on the challenges that China's environmental struggles pose. This article f…
China’s peasant agriculture and rural society: Changing paradigms of farming
As a seemingly inexorable assault on China’s small farms proceeds, debates on agrarian questions in China blossom anew. Special issues in this journal and several others, along with a steady stream
Chen Village: Revolution to Globalization - By Anita Chan, Richard Madsen, and Jonathan Unger
Hazards of Collaboration: Local State Co-optation of a New Protected-Area Model in Southwest China
Collaborative and market-oriented conservation interventions aim to achieve conservation and livelihood improvement outcomes by bringing people together over win–win solutions. Based on intensive interviews and document analysis, this study examines an effort to establish a new protected area in Yunnan Province, China, as an attempt at collaboration to establish a market-based conservation intervention that would include and benefit protected are…
Understanding the Challenges and Rewards of Social-Ecological Research in China
Interest in collaborative research on Chinese social and ecological systems has grown dramatically in recent decades. While international researchers are giving increased attention to China, foreign scholars, especially those new to China, are often unsure of the best way to find collaborators, garner sponsorship, and pursue research goals. Understanding research incentives for Chinese scientists, the culture of relationships, research topic sens…
Varying Impacts of Tourism Participation on Natural Resource Use in Communities in Southwest China
China’s disappearing countryside: Towards sustainable land governance for the poor
Tourism dynamos: Selective commodification and developmental conservation in China’s protected areas
Dual-function forests in the returning farmland to forest program and the flexibility of environmental policy in China
Recasting the rural: State, society and environment in contemporary China
China’s peasant agriculture and rural society: Changing paradigms of farming
As a seemingly inexorable assault on China’s small farms proceeds, debates on agrarian questions in China blossom anew. Special issues in this journal and several others, along with a steady stream
Forest transitions in Chinese villages: Explaining community-level variation under the returning forest to farmland program
China's summons for environmental sociology
From demand for natural resources to sustainability initiatives, everything seems to hinge on China. China's environmental entanglements call out for the analysis and understanding that environmental sociologists practice. Environmental sociologists from within and beyond China have begun to explore how society, polity, and ecology intersect, but we have yet to fully take on the challenges that China's environmental struggles pose. This article f…
Land Tenure Legacies, Household Life Cycles, and Livelihood Strategies in Upland China
Land tenure regimes shape how households use labor and other resources to construct livelihoods. Within a given tenure regime, shifting land-labor relationships over the household life cycle present households with changing trade-offs. In China, alongside growing market exchange of labor and produce, the legacies of land distribution following decollectivization-in particular, secure access to land and constraints on land transfers-create distinc…
Metabolic fractures: How household livelihood practices differentiate agricultural input use in southwest China
Explaining heterogeneous afforestation outcomes: How community officials and households mediate tree cover change in China
Urban socioeconomic inequality and biodiversity often converge, but not always: A global meta-analysis
It is through urban biodiversity that the majority of humans experience nature on a daily basis. As cities expand globally, it is increasingly important to understand how biodiversity is shaped by human decisions, institutions, and environments. In some cities, research has documented convergence between high socioeconomic status (SES) and high species diversity. Yet, other studies show that residents with low SES live amid high biodiversity or t…
Regenerating Scholarly Ecologies: Thoughts on Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Qin and colleagues’ paper “Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Bibliometric Analysis of Environmental and Resource Sociology” revives a thought-provoking conversation about relationships between environmental and natural resource sociologies. In this commentary, I ask whether we might learn more by looking beyond the forest and trees to other ecosystems and organisms in our “scholarly ecology.” We might benefit from thinking further about the many…
Tim Bartley, Rules without Rights: Land, Labor, and Private Authority in the Global Economy
Designating tree crops as forest: Land competition and livelihood effects mediate tree crops impact on natural forest cover in south China
Ecological civilization in the mountains: How walnuts boomed and busted in southwest China
As projects of commodification and environmental protection converge, it is crucial to understand how authoritarian states attempt to secure commodities, conservation, and control in internal peripheries. We examine how state authorities in China have incorporated walnut cultivation into a project of 'building ecological civilization' that links rural development with environmental protection and national security priorities, drawing on fieldwork…
Flood risk perception and responses among urban residents in the northeastern United States
“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Power”: A 25-year Strategic Advocacy Voyage of an Environmental NGO in China
Advocacy by civil society organizations such as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is especially challenging in a constraining political context. The Government of China has invited such organizations to assist in addressing emergent environmental problems while also limiting political challenges from them. NGOs need to respond to these political externalities strategically. This paper navigates a quarter-century advocacy voyage by an iconic C…
Different Hazards, Different Responses: Assessments of Flooding and Covid-19 Risks among Upstate New York Residents
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and extreme flooding events have recently taken enormous tolls. Drawing on research into differential risk responses across hazards, the authors examine how different social processes surrounding risk from flooding and COVID-19 shape how people respond to each hazard. Data from a household survey of 498 residents in two cities in the northeastern United States reveal that levels of concern and prot…
How Gender Dynamics Shape Off-farm Work in Upland Southwest China☆
Gendered demands for productive and reproductive labor differently affect men's and women's decisions about not only whether to undertake off-farm work, but where. With data from a survey of households in southwestern China, we examine the effects of individual, household, and community attributes on decisions to take local or distant off-farm work. Men's and women's off-farm work decisions respond differently to care and farmwork needs. For wome…
Unpacking Authoritarian Environmental Governance
Debates about whether authoritarian or democratic environmental governance have the capacity to weather the present crises tend to gloss over variation across and within regimes. Authoritarian environmental governance plays out in diverse ways; comparing across contexts can help us understand its varying outcomes. Drawing on James C. Scott’s characterization of authoritarian high modernism, I identify four dimensions along which projects of autho…
How Homeownership, Race, and Social Connections Influence Flood Preparedness Measures: Evidence from 2 Small U.S. Cities
Climate change and changing built environments are changing flooding regimes. Since flood management policies often rely on household preparedness, understanding what factors shape household flood preparedness measures is imperative. We focus on three dimensions: race, participation in local organizations, and homeownership as moderated by flood experience. With survey data from two small riverside cities in the northeastern United States, we exa…
Geography (18 works) · Economics (17 works) · China (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Business (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (11 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (11 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Law (10 works)