Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
2026
Rodenbiker, J., Lu, J., & Harlan, T. China in global biodiversity governance: Normative engagement at COP15. Eurasian Geography and Economics, Online First, 1–24.
Dwyer, M., & Harlan, T. Thinking with powersheds: State territoriality within and beyond the geo-body. Journal of Asian Studies, forthcoming.
2025
Harlan, T., Sun, Y., Lu, J., et al. China aspires to be an environmental leader. How should the rest of the world engage? Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Online First, 1–17.
2024
Harlan, T., & Baka, J. Stacked energyscapes: Conceptualizing fossil fuel and renewable energy entanglements in low-carbon transitions. Energy Research & Social Science, 115, 103648.
Zhu, A., Weins, N., Lu, J., Harlan, T., Qian, J., & Barbi, F. China’s nature-based solutions in the Global South: Evidence from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Global Environmental Change, 86, 102842.
Harlan, T., & Lu, J. The cooperation-infrastructure nexus: Translating the ‘China Model’ into Laos. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 45, 204–224.
Harlan, T. China’s green cooperation in the energy sector: Overview and analysis. Pacific Basin Law Journal, 41(2), 111–120.
2023
Hennig, T., Harlan, T., Tilt, B., & Magee, D. Hydropower development in South Asia: Data challenges, new approaches, and implications for decision-making. WIREs Water, 10(4), e1654.
Harlan, T. Low-carbon frontier: Renewable energy and the new resource boom in western China. The China Quarterly, 255, 591–610.
2022
Harlan, T., & Hennig, T. From mountains to megaregions: A powershed analysis of the Third Pole hydropower boom. Global Environmental Change, 73, 102483.
Ptak, T., Crootof, A., Harlan, T., & Kelly, S. Critically evaluating the purported global “boom” in small hydropower development through spatial and temporal analysis. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 163, 112490.
2021
Harlan, T., Xu, R., & Jun, H. Is small hydropower beautiful? Social impacts of river fragmentation in China’s Red River basin. Ambio, 50(2), 436–447.
Harlan, T. Green development or greenwashing? A political ecology perspective on China’s green Belt and Road. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 62(2), 202–226.
2020
Oliveira, G., Murton, G., Rippa, A., Harlan, T., & Yang, Y. China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Views from the ground. Introduction to the special issue. Political Geography, 82, 102225.
Harlan, T. Conservation or decarbonization? Small hydropower and state logics of green development in China. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110(5), 1464–1482.
2019
Harlan, T. State of sensitivity: Navigating fieldwork in an increasingly authoritarian China. Made in China, 4(3), 116–119.
2018
Harlan, T. Rural utility to low-carbon industry: Small hydropower and the industrialization of renewable energy in China. Geoforum, 95, 59–69.
Hennig, T., & Harlan, T. Shades of green energy: Geographies of small hydropower in Yunnan, China and the challenges of over-development. Global Environmental Change, 49, 116–128.
2017
Harlan, T. A “green” development model: Transnational model-making in China’s small hydropower training programmes. Area Development and Policy, 2(3), 251–271.
2012
Harlan, T., & Webber, M. New Uyghur corporate entrepreneurs in Urumqi, China. Central Asian Survey, 31(2), 175–191.
2009
Harlan, T. Private sector development in Xinjiang, China: A comparison between Uyghur and Han. Espace Populations Sociétés, 2009/3, 407–418.
Books
2027
Sun, Y., Rodenbiker, J., Lu, J., & Harlan, T. (Eds.). Green Soft Power: China’s Rising Leadership in Global Environmental Governance. Forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.
Book Chapters
2021
Harlan, T. Green and pro-poor? Analyzing social benefits of small hydropower in Yunnan, China. In J.-F. Rousseau & S. Habich-Sobiegalla (Eds.), The Political Economy of Hydropower in Southwest China and Beyond (pp. 127–145). Palgrave Macmillan.
2019
Harlan, T., & Park, J. Mapping urban governance: You-tien Hsing’s The Great Urban Transformation. In H. Leitner, J. Peck, & E. Sheppard (Eds.), Urban Studies Inside-Out: Theory, Method, Practice (pp. 165–174). Sage Publications.
2016
Harlan, T. Fringe existence: Uyghur entrepreneurs and ethnic relations in urban Xinjiang. In B. Hillman & G. Tuttle (Eds.), Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China’s West (pp. 179–200). Columbia University Press.
Other Publications
2024
Harlan, T. Introduction to the forum: Review of Jesse Rodenbiker’s Ecological States: Politics of Science & Nature in Urbanizing China. Society and Space, October 2024.
2022
Harlan, T., & Lu, J. Green Cooperation: Environmental Governance and Development Aid on China’s Belt and Road. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC.
2020
Oliveira, G., Murton, G., Rippa, A., Harlan, T., & Yang, Y. (Eds.). China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Views from the Ground. Special issue of Political Geography, 82.