Zhao, Zhong

Colorado State University

Zhong Zhao is the founder and director of Green Camel Bell, a grassroots environmental NGO in Northwest China. He's currently a visiting scholar at the Department of Sociology, Colorado State University. From 2022 to 2023, he served as a Yale World Fellow and was a visiting scholar at the Paul Tsai Center at Yale Law School. During 2015-2016, he served as a Hubert H. Humphrey fellow at the University of California, Davis, studying Natural Resources Management and Climate Change. In 2009, Time magazine honored him as a “Hero of the Environment,” and the Asia Society nominated him as an Asia 21 Young Leader in 2017. His recent advocacy projects have centered on governance issues concerning environmental justice, public involvement in environmental legislation and decision-making, and the adaptation of international environmental law to local contexts.

Contributions

• Authoritarian Environmentalism and Epistemological Violence: A Southern Green Criminology Analysis of the 2014 Lanzhou Water Crisis and the Belt and Road Initiative Expansion into the Global Water Sector

  Articles

  Vol. 12 No. 4 (2023)