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Hong Jiang

Hong Jiang , Assistant Professor
Phone: (808) 956-8164
Office: Saunders 415
Email: hjiang@hawaii.edu
Education
Ph.D. 1997, Geography, Clark University.
M.A. 1994. Geography, Clark University.
M.S. 1988, Geography, Beijing Normal University, China.
B.S. 1985, Geography, Beijing Normal University, China.
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Areas of Specialization
Cultural geography of the environment, perception of nature, environmental ideology and politics; minority people and resource use in China, China’s western region
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Publications, Submissions and Presentations
Refereed monograph
- Jiang, Hong. 1999. The Ordos Plateau of China: An endangered environment. Tokyo: United Nations University Press. p. 210.
Refereed research articles
- Jiang, Hong. Poaching state politics in socialist China: Uxin Ju’s grassland campaign during 1958-1966. Accepted manuscript under revision, Geographical Review.
- Jiang, Hong 2006 (forthcoming). Grassland campaigns in China’s collective era: Socialist politics and local initiatives in Uxin Ju, a “Pastoral Dazhai”. China Information: A Journal on Contemporary China Studies 20 (2).
- Jiang, Hong 2006 (in press). Decentralization, ecological construction, and the environment in post-reform China: Case study from Uxin banner, Inner Mongolia. World Development.
- Jiang, Hong. 2006. Fences, ecologies, and changes in pastoral life: Sandy land reclamation in Inner Mongolia, China. In Karl Zimmerer ed., Globalization and new geographies of conservation. University of Chicago Press. 296-314.
- Eastman, J.R., S. Crema, H. Zhu, J. Toledano, and H. Jiang. 2005. In-process classification assessment of remotely sensed imagery. Geocarto International 20 (4): 33-43.
- Jiang, Hong. 2005. Grassland management and views of nature in China since 1949: Regional policies and local changes in Uxin Ju, Inner Mongolia. Geoforum 36 (5): 641-653.
- Jiang, Hong. 2004. Cooperation, land use, and the environment in Uxin Ju: A changing landscape of a Mongolian-Chinese borderland in China. Annals of Association of American Geographers 94 (1): 117-139
- Jiang, Hong. 2003. Stories remote sensing images can tell: Integrating remote sensing analysis with ethnographic research in the study of cultural landscape. Human Ecology 31(2): 215-232.
- Jiang, Hong. 2002. Culture, ecology, and nature’s changing balance: Sandification on Mu Us Sandy Land, Inner Mongolia, China. In J. F. Reynolds and D. M. Stafford Smith eds., Global desertification: Do humans cause deserts? Berlin: Dahlem University Press. 181-196.
- Robbins, P. F., N. Abel, H. Jiang, M. Mortimore, M. Mulligan, G.S. Okin, D.M. Stafford Smith, and B.L. Turner II. 2002. Desertification at the community scale: Sustaining dynamic human-environment systems. In J. F. Reynolds and D. M. Stafford Smith eds., Global desertification: Do humans cause deserts? Berlin: Dahlem University Press. 325-356.
- Jiang, Hong, and J. Ronald Eastman. 2000. Application of fuzzy measures in multi-criteria evaluation in GIS. International Journal of Geographic Information Science 14(2): 173-184.
- Eastman, J. R., H. Jiang, and J. Toledano. 1998. Multi-criteria and multi-objective decision making for land allocation in GIS. In E. Beinat and P. Nijkamp eds., Multi-criteria evaluation in land-use management: Methodologies and case studies. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 227-252.
- Jiang, Hong, P. Zhang, D. Zheng, and F. Wang. 1995. Chapter 9: The Ordos Plateau. In J. X. Kasperson, R. E. Kasperson, and B.L. Turner II eds., Regions at risk: Comparisons of threatened environments. Tokyo: United Nations University. 420-459.
- Jiang, Hong. 1994. Human impact on desertification process on the Ordos Plateau. Chinese Journal of Arid Land Research 7(1): 51-60. (Refer to Erratum for authorship correction.)
- Jiang, Hong. 1990. Characteristics and management of steppe ecosystems in China. Chinese Journal of Arid Land Research 3(1): 37-48.
- Jiang, Hong. 1989. Fluctuations of semi-arid ecosystems and their management strategies. Journal of Arid Land Resources and Environment 3(3): 28-36 (text in Chinese).
- Wu, J., and H. Jiang. 1989. Theory and method of land ecological planning. In Geography Society of China ed., Selections in physical geography and land planning. Shijiazhuang: Hebei Education Press. 89-95 (text in Chinese).