Email: maohongbao616@yahoo.com

Dr. Bao Maohong is a senior research associate of centre for world environmental history, University of Sussex. He is associate professor of environmental history and Asia-Pacific studies at Peking University in China. He is a pioneer in developing the discipline of environmental history in China. His research is now focusing on the relationship of environment and development in East Asia, especially in China.

Major Publications (since 2000)

Forest and Development: Deforestation in the Philippines (1946-1995), China's Environmental Science Press, January 2008.

"Environmental history and new thinking in historical study: An interview with Prof. Bao Maohong", Journal of Capital Normal University, No.5, 2007.

"Environmental problems and environmental policy in China", The Journal of Chinese Studies (Pusan National University), Vol.3, 2007.

"The latest research of environmental history in China", The Journal of Chinese Studies (Pusan National University), Vol.3, 2007.

"Exchange of environmental culture and its construction in Northeast Asia", Collected Writings of Asia-Pacific Studies, Vol.4, 2007.

"The Rupture and Continuity of Indigenous Forest Knowledge in the Philippines", Collected Writings of Asia-Pacific Studies, Vol.3, 2006.

"The Evolution of Environmental Policy and its impact in People's Republic of China", Conservation and Society, Vol.4 No.1, March 2006. (in English)

" 'Open Up the West' and the Ecological Construction: Focusing on ShaanBei", Journal of Social Science Department (Science University of Okayama), No.4, 2006. (In Japanese)

"Environmental History in the United Kingdom", Journal of Chinese Historical Geography, No.2, April 2005.

"Environmental History in China", Environment and History, Vol.10, No.4. (in English)

"New Thinking of Interpreting Chinese History: Bookreview on The Retreat of the Elephants", Collections of Essays on Chinese Historical Geography, No.3,September 2004.

"Survey of Chinese Environmental History: An Interview with Prof. Mark Elvin", Collections of Essays on Chinese Historical Geography, No.1,March 2004.

"The Destruction of Environment and Environmentalism in Former Soviet Union", Journal of Shaanxi Normal University, No.4,July 2003.

"Environmental Problems and Environmental Cooperation in North-East Asia", The North-East Asia Studies: Annual Report, No.10, March 2003. (in Japanese)

"A New Perspective of African History Studies: Environmental History", Historiography Quarterly, No.1, January 2002.

"The Idea and Practice of Soil Protection in South Africa", World History, No.5, October 2001.

"Environmental Crisis and Sustainable Development in Africa", Journal of Peking University, Vol.38, No.3, May 2001.

"Environmental History: History, Theories and Methods", Historiography Quarterly, No.4, October 2000.