Hong Jiang

Assistant Professor of Geography

Education

PhD, Clark University, 1997


Research Areas

Landscapes of cultural and land-use change

Perceptions of nature

Environmental ideologies and politics

China

Application of remote sensing and GIS


Current Research

Cultural change and landscape change in the Ordos Plateau, China

Nature campaign during the 1950s-1970s in Inner Mongolia, China

Environmental/ecological discourse of the Chinese socialist period

Recent Publications

Jiang, Hong. Forthcoming. 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.

Jiang, Hong. Forthcoming. Fences, ecologies, and changes in pastoral life: Sandy land reclamation in Uxin Ju, Inner Mongolia, China. In Karl Zimmerer (ed.) Globalization and geographies of conservation. University of Minnesota Press.

Jiang, Hong. In review. State, ecological construction, and the local landscape in China: A case study from Uxin banner, Inner Mongolia. World Development.

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).

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.

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): p. 173-184.

Jiang, Hong. 1999. The Ordos Plateau of China: An endangered environment. Tokyo: United Nations University Press. p. 210.

Courses Taught

Geog 370 Introduction to Cartography

Geog 377 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Geog 519 Environment and Human Experience

Geog 930 Seminar in Cultural and Environmental Change

Geog 930 Seminar in Modernization and Landscape Change

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When not at her research site in the
Ordos Plateau, Inner Mongolia, China, Hong can often be found reading in the Geography Library.

Other Activities

Research Associate, Beijing Normal University

Awards and Honors

Young Vilas Investigator, UW-Madison, 1999-2004

Resident Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison, 2002-2003

Graduate Students

Jeff Bernard
Agricultural change in Northeast China (PhD)

Courtney Klaus
Reclamation of uranium mines on Navajo land, New Mexico (PhD)


Contact Information

University of Wisconsin
Department of Geography
550 North Park Street
Madison, WI 53706-1404

Phone (608) 262-3213
Fax (608) 265-3991

375 Science Hall
hjiang@geography.wisc.edu