Environmental Mitigation in China: Expectations and Realities
Gregory Veeck, Professor of Geography, Western Michigan University
Thursday, January 26, 2006
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Gregory Veeck is a professor in the Department of Geography at Western Michigan University specializing in economic geography, agriculture, rural development, and rural environmental/ ecological issues. His regional interests include China, East Asia, and the United States. He has lived and worked in China and Korea for approximately five years. His projects in China, Korea, and Japan as well as the United States, typically focus on rural or agricultural adaptations at the farm level to economic change at regional, national, or global scales. Always related to these issues are a number of important environmental concerns that are part and parcel of this type of research.
Professor Veeck's articles based on his research have been published in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Great Lakes Geographer, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Economic Geography, Geographical Review, World Development, Asia-Pacific Viewpoint, Focus (American Geographical Society), Chinese Environment and Development, and Comptons Encyclopedia. His most recent book, coauthored with Clifton Pannel, Chris Smith, and Youqin Huang, is a regional geography text for China. It will be published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2006.
Sponsor(s): Center for Chinese Studies
