Jennifer Turner
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Jennifer Turner is the director of the China Environment Forum (CEF) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
, where for 11 years she has implemented projects, workshops, and exchanges that bring together U.S., Chinese, and other Asian environmental policy experts to explore the most imperative environmental and sustainable development issues in China and to examine opportunities for business, governmental, and nongovernmental communities to collaboratively address these issues.
In CEF she has also conducted special research and/or exchange initiatives on China, including: food safety, environmental health, desertification in Inner Mongolia, water conflict resolution, river basin governance, environmental NGOs, and municipal financing for environmental infrastructure. Under CEF's current Cooperative Competitors: Building New U.S.-China Energy and Climate Networks initiative Jennifer has carried out energy-focused open and closed meetings and designed a series of research briefs that more deeply the specific opportunities for U.S.-China energy collaboration.
Her current research focuses on U.S.-China energy relations, water and energy nexus in China, and NGO movement in China.
Dr. Turner received her Ph.D. in Public Policy and Comparative Politics from Indiana University
, Bloomington, in 1997. Her dissertation examined local government innovation in implementing water policies in the People’s Republic of China. Her current research focuses on environmental civil society and water resources protection issues in China. She holds a bachelor's degree in German and Russian from the University of Illinois
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“Water Conflicts Catalyzing Change in China.” (2009). In Asia’s Next Challenge: Securing the Region’s Water Future. Asia Society Report.
Co-authored with Linden J. Ellis. (2008). Sowing the Seeds: Opportunities for U.S.-China Cooperation on Food Safety. Woodrow Wilson Center. (bilingual publication).
Contributed to environment section for Cross-Strait Confidence Building Report published by Center for Strategic and International Affairs. (2008).
Co-authored with Timothy Hildebrandt. (2009). “(Not so) Green Groups: Reassessing China’s “Vanguard of Civil Society” Fifteen Years On.” In State and Civil Society in Contemporary China: Negotiating Social Service Provision. (Eds.) Shawn Shieh and Jonathan Schwarz. Routledge.
Co-authored with Linden J. Ellis. (2007). “China’s Pollution.” National Geographic Magazine’s Geopedia Website.
Conceived, carried out logistics, and acted as senior project advisor for Circle of Blue’s multi-media story “Reign of Sand: Inner Mongolia.” See: www.circleofblue.org/reign. Launched January 2008.
Co-authored with Linden J. Ellis. (2007). “Surf and Turf: Environmental and Food Safety Concerns of China’s Aquaculture and Animal Husbandry.” China Environment Series Issue 9.
“In Deep Water: Ecological Destruction of China’s Water Resources.” (December 2007). Water and Energy Futures in Urbanized Asia: Sustaining the Tiger. A Report of the Global Strategy Institute at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Eds. Erik R. Peterson and Rachel Posner.
Co-authored (with Kenji Otsuka) of a Wilson Center report: Reaching Across the Water: International Cooperation Promoting Sustainable River Basin Governance in China (2006).
Co-authored (with Lü Zhi)of “Building a Green Civil Society in China” State of the World (2006). Washington, D.C. Worldwatch Institute
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"Small Government, Big (Green?) Society: Emerging Partnerships to Solve China's Environmental Problems," Harvard Asian Quarterly, 2004.
"Beyond the Bureaucracy: Changing China's Policymaking Environment," (coauthored with Eric Zusman) in China's Environmental Challenges, (Editor, Kris Day) (New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming).
"Cultivating Environmental NGO-Business Partnerships in China," China Business Review, November 2003.
Crouching Suspicion, Hidden Potential: U.S. Environmental and Energy Cooperation with China, co-author, ECSP China Environment Forum (Wilson Center, 2002).
Authority Flowing Downward? Local Government Entrepreneurship in the Chinese Water Sector, Ph.D. Dissertation, (Indiana University, 1997).
"Trickle Down? Administrative and Financial Decentralization in the Water Sector in the PRC" in Groundwater Law: The Growing Debate, ed. Marcus Moench, Gujart, India: VIKSAT-Pacific Institute Collaborative Groundwater Project, 1995 (co-authored with James Nickum).
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars , located in Washington, D.C., is a United States Presidential Memorial that was established as part of the Smithsonian Institution by an act of Congress in 1968...
, where for 11 years she has implemented projects, workshops, and exchanges that bring together U.S., Chinese, and other Asian environmental policy experts to explore the most imperative environmental and sustainable development issues in China and to examine opportunities for business, governmental, and nongovernmental communities to collaboratively address these issues.
In CEF she has also conducted special research and/or exchange initiatives on China, including: food safety, environmental health, desertification in Inner Mongolia, water conflict resolution, river basin governance, environmental NGOs, and municipal financing for environmental infrastructure. Under CEF's current Cooperative Competitors: Building New U.S.-China Energy and Climate Networks initiative Jennifer has carried out energy-focused open and closed meetings and designed a series of research briefs that more deeply the specific opportunities for U.S.-China energy collaboration.
Her current research focuses on U.S.-China energy relations, water and energy nexus in China, and NGO movement in China.
Dr. Turner received her Ph.D. in Public Policy and Comparative Politics from Indiana University
Indiana University
Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...
, Bloomington, in 1997. Her dissertation examined local government innovation in implementing water policies in the People’s Republic of China. Her current research focuses on environmental civil society and water resources protection issues in China. She holds a bachelor's degree in German and Russian from the University of Illinois
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
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Publications and Multimedia Websites
Conceived and managed production Circle of Blue’s online multi-media story Hidden Waters, Dragons in the Deep, which focuses on karst water challenges in southwest China. December 2009 at: www.circleofblue.org.“Water Conflicts Catalyzing Change in China.” (2009). In Asia’s Next Challenge: Securing the Region’s Water Future. Asia Society Report.
Co-authored with Linden J. Ellis. (2008). Sowing the Seeds: Opportunities for U.S.-China Cooperation on Food Safety. Woodrow Wilson Center. (bilingual publication).
Contributed to environment section for Cross-Strait Confidence Building Report published by Center for Strategic and International Affairs. (2008).
Co-authored with Timothy Hildebrandt. (2009). “(Not so) Green Groups: Reassessing China’s “Vanguard of Civil Society” Fifteen Years On.” In State and Civil Society in Contemporary China: Negotiating Social Service Provision. (Eds.) Shawn Shieh and Jonathan Schwarz. Routledge.
Co-authored with Linden J. Ellis. (2007). “China’s Pollution.” National Geographic Magazine’s Geopedia Website.
Conceived, carried out logistics, and acted as senior project advisor for Circle of Blue’s multi-media story “Reign of Sand: Inner Mongolia.” See: www.circleofblue.org/reign. Launched January 2008.
Co-authored with Linden J. Ellis. (2007). “Surf and Turf: Environmental and Food Safety Concerns of China’s Aquaculture and Animal Husbandry.” China Environment Series Issue 9.
“In Deep Water: Ecological Destruction of China’s Water Resources.” (December 2007). Water and Energy Futures in Urbanized Asia: Sustaining the Tiger. A Report of the Global Strategy Institute at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Eds. Erik R. Peterson and Rachel Posner.
Co-authored (with Kenji Otsuka) of a Wilson Center report: Reaching Across the Water: International Cooperation Promoting Sustainable River Basin Governance in China (2006).
Co-authored (with Lü Zhi)of “Building a Green Civil Society in China” State of the World (2006). Washington, D.C. Worldwatch Institute
Worldwatch Institute
The Worldwatch Institute is a globally focused environmental research organization based in Washington, D.C. Worldwatch was named as one of the top ten sustainable development research organizations by Globescan Survey of Sustainability Experts.-Mission:...
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"Small Government, Big (Green?) Society: Emerging Partnerships to Solve China's Environmental Problems," Harvard Asian Quarterly, 2004.
"Beyond the Bureaucracy: Changing China's Policymaking Environment," (coauthored with Eric Zusman) in China's Environmental Challenges, (Editor, Kris Day) (New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming).
"Cultivating Environmental NGO-Business Partnerships in China," China Business Review, November 2003.
Crouching Suspicion, Hidden Potential: U.S. Environmental and Energy Cooperation with China, co-author, ECSP China Environment Forum (Wilson Center, 2002).
Authority Flowing Downward? Local Government Entrepreneurship in the Chinese Water Sector, Ph.D. Dissertation, (Indiana University, 1997).
"Trickle Down? Administrative and Financial Decentralization in the Water Sector in the PRC" in Groundwater Law: The Growing Debate, ed. Marcus Moench, Gujart, India: VIKSAT-Pacific Institute Collaborative Groundwater Project, 1995 (co-authored with James Nickum).