Juliet Lu
Wilson China Fellow
Professional Affiliation
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Atkinson Center for Sustainability, Cornell University
Expert Bio
Juliet Lu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Atkinson Center for Sustainability at Cornell University. She is a political ecologist who studies the implications of China’s investments in land and other resources across the world.
Her dissertation (UC Berkeley) explored the rapid rise in Chinese agribusiness investments in Laos, with a focus on rubber plantations. It highlighted connections between the Chinese state and companies (state and private) operating beyond its borders and the territorial and rural development implications of the tree plantation economy in Laos. It also illustrated how crops considered ‘strategic’ to national development shape livelihoods, environments, and trajectories of agrarian change. In her postdoctoral work (Cornell University) she is analyzing how emerging private sector, civil society, and state initiatives for sustainable rubber engage Chinese stakeholders and, vice versa, how Chinese actors along the rubber supply chain understand and adapt to these calls for sustainability.
Wilson Center Project
“Green Development or Greenwashing? China’s Cooperation-Infrastructure Nexus in Southeast Asia.”
Insight & Analysis by Juliet Lu
- Publication
Green Cooperation: Environmental Governance and Development Aid on the Belt and Road
- By
- Tyler Harlan and
- Juliet Lu
- Publication
2021-22 Wilson China Fellowship: Essays on China and US Policy
- Past event
- Strategic Competition
The Wilson China Fellowship Conference 2022
- Blog post
- Environment
COP15 in Kunming: A New Role for China in Global Conservation?
- By
- Juliet Lu and
- Tyler Harlan