October 24, 2016
Event Start: November 17, 2016 04:30 PM
Event End: November 17, 2016 05:45 PM
Event Location: 1930 Buchanan
Event Price:
free to the public
Event Details:
Geography Colloquium
UCSB Department of Geography
November 17, 3:30-4:45 pm, 1930 Buchanan
Location, Location, Location: spatial planning and the making of fungible environmental values in contemporary China
In the past decade, China has emerged as the global manufacturing leader of renewable energy commodities such as wind turbines and solar panels. This lecture examines how this making of environmental commodities has intersected with the environmental valuation and regulation of rural land as a site and capital resource for so-called green development.