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Jichuan Sheng @jichuans.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My review of Modes of Coordination and Performance in Polycentric Governance (ed. Thiel et al., OUP) is out in Governance! 📚 It maps hybrid coordination & the state as a meta-governor, while asking: how well does IAD handle raw power dynamics? 🔗https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.70146

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Jichuan Sheng @jichuans.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Thrilled our paper is out in Environmental Science & Policy! We merge 'hydrosocial territories' & 'socio-natural resilience' to study the Yangtze River. TL;DR: Water resilience isn't just ecological—it's deeply political & shaped by hydro-hegemony. See attached PDF! 🌊 #AcademicSky

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Bridging waters and power: Hydrosocial territories with socio-natural resilience in China's Great Yangtze River protection programme

Global water governance has increasingly focused on resilience as a means to manage cross-scale complexity and change. In this paper, rather than prop…

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Jichuan Sheng @jichuans.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

New paper in EPC: The South–North Water Transfer Project reshapes hydrosocial territories and produces multi-dimensional water injustice in rural China. Authoritarian environmentalism governs through infrastructure, co-opted participation, and moral discourse. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Navigating water justice in transforming hydrosocial territories: conflicts between local irrigation and water transfer in Gaoyou Irrigation District, China - Jichuan Sheng, Qian Cheng, Chen Li, 2026

Water justice, which ensures equitable access and active participation in governance, is crucial for enhancing the effectiveness of regional environmental gover...

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Jichuan Sheng @jichuans.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Just out in @natgeosci.nature.com : "Global water security threatened by rising inequality." 🌊⚖️ Inequality is not just a consequence but a primary driver of water scarcity. Technology alone cannot solve this crisis. #WaterSecurity #Inequality #SDGs

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Has someone found a good way of getting money out of research? Don't stop it. Copy it. APC charges cost billions. MDPI leads with over $1.7bn (est. 2015-2023). Springer-Nature ‘only’ got $1.1bn and so what do they do? They copy MDPI. the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

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Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

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Conservation Science and Practice @conservationsp.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Volume 7, Issue 6 of Conservation Science and Practice is live! 🌍📖🧬 Dive into the latest research and discoveries: doi.org/10.1111/csp2... #conservation #science #scientificjournal

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