Ecological States (2023), published by Cornell University Press, has been cited 41 times — enough that OpenAlex puts it in the top 1% of works in its field and year. Beyond that, it has been downloaded 334 times and is used in teaching.
Ecological States by Jesse Rodenbiker was published by Cornell University Press in 2023. Conceptually, the work connects to Ecology, Geography, Environmental science and Biology. The book was recognised: ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award finalist (2026) — Environmental Humanities.
OpenAlex records 41 citations. That places it in the top 1% of works in its field and year of publication. Citations peaked in 2026 with 21 citing works. Notable citing venues include International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, The China Quarterly and Journal of Agrarian Change. The citing works include 36 journal articles and 2 books. They come from 11 countries, led by the United States, China and the United Kingdom.
In teaching, it is discussed in 2 recorded lectures. It is discussed on Wikipedia (14 mentions). It has been downloaded 334 times via Ubiquity Press. A further 14 mentions appear in other attention signals.
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| Year | Title | Venue | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | The Failure of Land-Driven Development: Challenges to Local State Entrepreneurialism in China | Urban Affairs Review | 10.1177/10780874261480548 |
| 2026 | Environmental policy mobilities for building a global Ecological Civilization: China’s experiments with carbon markets and nature-based solutions | Mobilities | 10.1080/17450101.2026.2695078 |
| 2026 | When Formalization Fails | Cambridge University Press eBooks | 10.1017/9781009585699 |
| 2026 | Scientists and their monsters: China’s carbon neutrality imaginary | Sustainability Science | 10.1007/s11625-026-01862-4 |
| 2026 | ENVIRONMENTAL STATECRAFT AND CHANGING ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: Chengdu's Ecological Preservation and Eco‐development | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research | 10.1111/1468-2427.70112 |
| 2026 | Editorial: The new hydropolitics of China | Geographical Research | 10.1111/1745-5871.70073 |
| 2026 | Centralising state power, undermining local growth politics and escalating debt crisis: A new stage of state entrepreneurialism in China | Urban Studies | 10.1177/00420980261446565 |
| 2026 | Provincializing ecology: Anthropocene futures from ecological restoration to eco-developmentalism | Environment and Planning F | 10.1177/26349825261445720 |
| 2026 | Staging the thousand-park city: pocket park mania, socioecological fix, and contested eco-dreams in Liaoning, China | Urban Geography | 10.1080/02723638.2026.2659147 |
| 2026 | Regulatory Takings as Territorialisation: Collective Forest Rights Inside China's Giant Panda National Park | Social & Legal Studies | 10.1177/09646639261435097 |
| 2026 | From the Gobi to the Sahel: Can China’s anti-desertification model work in Africa? | AMBIO | 10.1007/s13280-026-02363-5 |
| 2026 | Agro‐Industrial Enclosures: Food Security, Land Consolidation and Rural Displacement in China | Journal of Agrarian Change | 10.1111/joac.70074 |
| 2026 | Navigating water justice in transforming hydrosocial territories: conflicts between local irrigation and water transfer in Gaoyou Irrigation District, China | Environment and Planning C Politics and Space | 10.1177/23996544261428664 |
| 2026 | AESTHETIC POLITICS AND ELITE ‐ DRIVEN URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICAN CITIES : The Case of Beautifying Sheger in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research | 10.1111/1468-2427.70064 |
| 2026 | Toward a sociology of urban knowledge: Reconceptualizing urbanization from contemporary China | Journal of Urban Affairs | 10.1080/07352166.2025.2601023 |
| 2026 | Who talks for Chinese urban studies? Assessing urban theory in a rapidly evolving field | Transactions in Planning and Urban Research | 10.1177/27541223251413697 |
| 2026 | Twentieth-Century China: Planning and Urbanism | Unknown | 10.1093/obo/9780190922467-0117 |
| 2026 | Chinese Global Environmentalism | Cambridge University Press eBooks | 10.1017/9781009363976 |
| 2026 | Bridging planned and autonomous adaptation for flood resilience in multi-ethnic communities along China's Tea-Horse Road | Chinese Journal of Sociology | 10.1177/2057150x261419582 |
| 2026 | Climate adaptation and institutional continuity: Understanding lock-in dynamics in China's grassland governance | Chinese Journal of Sociology | 10.1177/2057150x261420583 |
| 2025 | Green Space Production as a State Project in Urban China | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | 10.1111/tran.70054 |
| 2025 | Towards a critical understanding of digital twins: The politics of digitalizing rivers in China | Environment and Planning E Nature and Space | 10.1177/25148486251386256 |
| 2025 | Balancing Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Development: Contested Spaces of Regulating Bamboo Shoots in China's Giant Panda National Park | Journal of Agrarian Change | 10.1111/joac.70041 |
| 2025 | Critical geographies of discretion in the environmental bureaucracy | Progress in Environmental Geography | 10.1177/27539687251362248 |
| 2025 | Entangled Frontiers: Uncovering the Hydrosocial Territories of Shenzhen | Geo Geography and Environment | 10.1002/geo2.70048 |
| 2025 | “Beautiful Countryside”: Green Development and the Making of Rural Urbanization in China | The China Quarterly | 10.1017/s0305741025000384 |
| 2025 | China's Eco‐Civilisation, Climate Leviathan, and Hobbesian Energy Transition | Antipode | 10.1111/anti.70009 |
| 2025 | Negotiating Infrastructural Injustice in Poverty Alleviation Resettlement: The Case of the Southern Shaanxi Migration Project in China | Population Space and Place | 10.1002/psp.70006 |
| 2025 | Global Geographies of Weather Modification in an Era of Climate Change | Annals of the American Association of Geographers | 10.1080/24694452.2025.2450200 |
| 2025 | Tourism Development on China’s Northwestern Border: Territorialisation, Reterritorialisation, and Geopolitics of the Great Altai Region in Inner Asia | Geopolitics | 10.1080/14650045.2025.2462955 |
| 2025 | Book review: Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China | Urban Studies | 10.1177/00420980251318612 |
| 2025 | The symbolic power of sustainability: Gulf megaprojects and the case of Expo City Dubai | Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society | 10.1093/cjres/rsae046 |
| 2024 | Landscapes of state capitalism: Reconciling the vernacular, national development imaginaries, and green capital accumulation | Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography | 10.1111/sjtg.12574 |
| 2024 | From water source protection to future village: environmental prefigurative politics and technologies of the self in China’s Qingshan village | Eurasian Geography and Economics | 10.1080/15387216.2024.2383625 |
| 2024 | Everyday Oblivion in Eco-Civilized China | Qualitative Sociology | 10.1007/s11133-024-09566-w |
| 2024 | “Doing the Work of Science”: Tibetan Environmentalists and the Changing Dynamics of Ecological Conservation in China | The China Quarterly | 10.1017/s0305741024000614 |
| 2024 | Tourism dreams in rubble: Mass demolition and the reconfiguration of growth coalitions within China's ecological civilization | Environment and Planning E Nature and Space | 10.1177/25148486241246942 |
| 2024 | Performative legitimation of waste-to-energy infrastructure: incineration politics in Guangzhou low-carbon transition | Environment and Urbanization | 10.1177/09562478241230470 |
| 2024 | Spectacular Technology, Invisible Harms: Witnessing Techno-science on Waste Tours in China | Science Technology & Human Values | 10.1177/01622439231224503 |
| 2022 | Green silk roads, partner state development, and environmental governance: Belt and road infrastructure on the Sino-East African frontier | Critical Asian Studies | 10.1080/14672715.2022.2150249 |
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