Sarah Rogers

Scaling up agriculture? The dynamics of land transfer in inland China

Sarah Rogers, Brooke Wilmsen, Xiao Han, Zoe Ju-Han Wang, Yuefang Duan, Jun He, Jie Li, Wanlong Lin, Christine Wong

Journal article  |  2021  |  WORLD DEVELOPMENT

Major changes are taking place in the Chinese countryside. Long a smallholder dominant economy with small and fragmented farms, a ..

Inside-out: Chinese academic assessments of large-scale water infrastructure

Michael Webber, Xiao Han, Sarah Rogers, Mark Wang, Hong Jiang, Wenjing Zhang, Jon Barnett, Nahui Zhen

Journal article  |  2021  |  WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-WATER

Little is known in the international academic community about Chinese-language research on water management. To remedy this defici..

Targeted Poverty Alleviation in China: A Typology of Official-Household Relations

Georgina Davie, Mark Wang, Sarah Rogers, Jie Li

Journal article  |  2021  |  PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

‘Targeted Poverty Alleviation’ (TPA) is the Chinese government’s latest anti-poverty policy, aiming to lift the remaining 70 milli..

Producing a Chinese hydrosocial territory: A river of clean water flows north from Danjiangkou

Sarah Rogers, Mark Wang

Journal article  |  2020  |  Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

Hydrosocial territories are produced not just through concrete water infrastructure, but through flows of people, water, money, an..

Between Project and Region: The Challenges of Managing Water in Shandong Province After the South-North Water Transfer Project

Dan Chen, Zhaohui Luo, Michael Webber, Sarah Rogers, Ian Rutherfurd, Mark Wang, Brian Finlayson, Min Jiang, Chenchen Shi, Wenjing Zhang

Journal article  |  2020  |  WATER ALTERNATIVES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL ON WATER POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT

This paper examines the challenges that a region of China is facing as it seeks to integrate a centrally planned, hierarchically d..

Beyond contradiction: The state and the market in contemporary Chinese water governance

M Jiang, M Webber, J Barnett, S Rogers, I Rutherfurd, M Wang, B Finlayson

Journal article  |  2020  |  Geoforum

State/market interactions in water governance have long been interpreted in terms of the contradiction between water as a commons ..

Towards a critical geography of resettlement

S Rogers, B Wilmsen

Journal article  |  2020  |  Progress in Human Geography

Resettlement is a governmental program with inherent spatial effects in that it drives the rearrangement of capital, labour, and l..

An integrated assessment of China's South-North Water Transfer Project

Sarah Rogers, Dan Chen, Hong Jiang, Ian Rutherfurd, Mark Wang, Michael Webber, Britt Crow-Miller, Jon Barnett, Brian Finlayson, Min Jiang, Chenchen Shi, Wenjing Zhang

Journal article  |  2020  |  GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH

China’s South–NorthWater Transfer Project (SNWTP) is a vast and still expanding network of infrastructure and institutions that mo..

China’s rapidly evolving practice of poverty resettlement: Moving millions to eliminate poverty

Sarah Rogers, Jie Li, Kevin Lo, Hua Guo, Cong Li

Journal article  |  2020  |  Development Policy Review

Motivation: Unlike in other places where resettlement is largely a by-product of large infrastructure projects, in China, resettle..

Water-energy nexus of the eastern route of China's south-to-north water transfer project

D Chen, D Zhang, Z Luo, M Webber, S Rogers

Journal article  |  2019  |  Water Policy

This article investigates the energy intensity and related impacts of the Eastern Route of China's South-North Water Transfer Proj..