Alana Boland, Associate Professor

Home Campus:
U of T St. George

PhD:
University of Washington (Geography)

Other Degrees:
MAIS University of Washington (China Studies)
BA Reed College (Physics)

Contact Information:

Phone:    (416) 978-1587
Fax:        (416) 946-3886
Location: Room 5006, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George)
Email:     boland@geog.utoronto.ca

Personal Website: http://faculty.geog.utoronto.ca/boland/ab_home.htm

Research Interests:

• Environment and development
• Sustainability and urban political economy
• China (1950s to present)
• Water governance

Teaching This Academic Year:

• GGR223H1S – Environment, Society, and Resources
• GGR343H1F – Changing Geography of China

Selected Publications:

• Boland, A. 2016. From factory to field: Wastewater irrigation in China’s early socialist cities, Global Environment, 9: 219-239.
• Boland, A. 2015. Bakker’s Privatizing Water and the place of China’s cities, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 39 (5): 1043-1056.
• Boland, A. and Zhu, J. 2012. Public participation in China’s green communities: Mobilizing memories and structuring incentives, Geoforum, 43(1): 147-157.
• Boland, A. 2007. The trickle-down effect: Ideology and the development of premium water networks in China’s cities, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 31(1): 21-40.

Research Clusters:
Cities and Everyday Life, Nature, Society and Environmental Change, Political Ecology, Political Spaces