As China Goes, So Goes the Planet: Domestic and International Implications of China's Environmental Crisis

Judith Shapiro will discuss the domestic and international implications of China's environmental crisis, with a focus on problems of governance, national identity, civil society, environmental justice, and the displacement of environmental harm.

Judith Shapiro is the director of the Masters in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development program for the School of International Service at American University. She was one of the first Americans to live in China after US-China relations were normalized in 1979, and she taught English at the Hunan Teachers’ College in Changsha, China. Her research and teaching focus on global environmental politics and policy, the environmental politics of Asia, and Chinese politics under Mao. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of seven books, including China's Environmental Challenges (2012), Mao’s War against Nature (2001), Son of the Revolution with Liang Heng (1983), and After the Nightmare with Liang Heng (1987). 

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