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John Aloysius Zinda · SciRah

Researcher profile · Semantic Scholar

John Aloysius Zinda

Department of Global Development, Cornell University

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John Aloysius Zinda — researcher profile on SciRah

h-index: 17
Works: 46
Citations: 863

Most-cited papers

Urban socioeconomic inequality and biodiversity often converge, but not always: A global meta-analysis
Evan R. Kuras, P. Warren, John Aloysius Zinda, M. Aronson +4 more
2020Landscape and Urban Planning105 citations Open access
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Dual-function forests in the returning farmland to forest program and the flexibility of environmental policy in China
John Aloysius Zinda, C. J. Trac, De-Li Zhai, S. Harrell
201790 citations Open access
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Stakeholders and tropical reforestation: challenges, trade‐offs, and strategies in dynamic environments
Elena Lazos-Chavero, John Aloysius Zinda, Aoife Bennett-Curry, P. Balvanera +3 more
201689 citations
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Forest transitions in Chinese villages: Explaining community-level variation under the returning forest to farmland program
Zhi-Ming Zhang, John Aloysius Zinda, Wen-Qing Li
201765 citations Open access
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Recasting the rural: State, society and environment in contemporary China
Jia-Ching Chen, John Aloysius Zinda, E. Yeh
2017Geoforum61 citations Open access
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Flood risk perception and responses among urban residents in the northeastern United States
John Aloysius Zinda, L. Williams, David L. Kay, Sarah M. Alexander
202147 citations Open access
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Hazards of Collaboration: Local State Co-optation of a New Protected-Area Model in Southwest China
John Aloysius Zinda
201237 citations
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Ecological civilization in the mountains: how walnuts boomed and busted in southwest China
John Aloysius Zinda, Jun He
2020Journal of Peasant Studies32 citations
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Tourism dynamos: Selective commodification and developmental conservation in China’s protected areas
John Aloysius Zinda
201731 citations Open access
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Does the “Returning Farmland to Forest Program” Drive Community-Level Changes in Landscape Patterns in China?
Wen-Qing Li, John Aloysius Zinda, Zhi-Ming Zhang
2019Forests22 citations Open access
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Stabilizing Forests and Communities: Accommodative Buffering within China's Collective Forest Tenure Reform
John Aloysius Zinda, Zhi-Ming Zhang
2018The China Quarterly22 citations
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Land Tenure Legacies, Household Life Cycles, and Livelihood Strategies in Upland China
John Aloysius Zinda, Zhi-Ming Zhang
201821 citations Open access
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Effects of topographic attributes on landscape pattern metrics based on redundancy ordination gradient analysis
Zhi-Ming Zhang, John Aloysius Zinda, Zi-Jiang Yang, Mei Yin +3 more
2017Landscape and Ecological Engineering21 citations
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China’s disappearing countryside: towards sustainable land governance for the poor
John Aloysius Zinda
201421 citations
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Explaining heterogeneous afforestation outcomes: How community officials and households mediate tree cover change in China
John Aloysius Zinda, Zhi-Ming Zhang
2019World Development19 citations
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Rural development theory
G. Green, John Aloysius Zinda
201318 citations
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China’s peasant agriculture and rural society: changing paradigms of farming
John Aloysius Zinda
201716 citations
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Metabolic fractures: How household livelihood practices differentiate agricultural input use in southwest China
John Aloysius Zinda, S. Kapoor
2019Journal of Rural Studies15 citations Open access
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China’s summons for environmental sociology
John Aloysius Zinda, Yifei Li, J. C. Liu
2018Current Sociology15 citations
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Designating tree crops as forest: Land competition and livelihood effects mediate tree crops impact on natural forest cover in south China
Ruhe Yan, John Aloysius Zinda, Shui-Fa Ke
202014 citations
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Varying Impacts of Tourism Participation on Natural Resource Use in Communities in Southwest China
John Aloysius Zinda, Jian-Mei Yang, Xi-Ming Xue, Hai-Lan Cheng
201414 citations
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Accessibility of Primary Schools in Rural Areas and the Impact of Topography: A Case Study in Nanjiang County, China
Yuanyuan Zhu, John Aloysius Zinda, Qin Liu, Yu-Kuan Wang +2 more
2023Land12 citations Open access
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Unpacking Authoritarian Environmental Governance
John Aloysius Zinda
2023Sociology of Development11 citations
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Justice and injustice under authoritarian environmentalism: Investigating tensions between forestland property rights and environmental conservation in China
Wenyuan Liang, B. Arts, John Aloysius Zinda, Jiayun Dong
2024Forest Policy and Economics10 citations
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Different Hazards, Different Responses: Assessments of Flooding and COVID-19 Risks among Upstate New York Residents
John Aloysius Zinda, James Zhang, L. Williams, David L. Kay +2 more
2022Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World8 citations Open access
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“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Power”: A 25-year Strategic Advocacy Voyage of an Environmental NGO in China
Hao Zhuang, John Aloysius Zinda, J. Lassoie
2022The Journal of Environment & Development7 citations
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Mapping and quantifying land cover dynamics using dense remote sensing time series with the user-friendly pyNITA software
M. Alonzo, J. Hoek, P. Murillo-Sandoval, C. Steger +1 more
2021Environmental Modelling & Software7 citations Open access
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China's ecosystems: Sacrificing the poor
John Aloysius Zinda, K. Hopping, E. Schmitt, E. Yeh +2 more
2016Science6 citations
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Understanding the Challenges and Rewards of Social-Ecological Research in China
J. Van Den Hoek, J. Baumgartner, Elena Doucet-Beer, T. Hildebrandt +2 more
20125 citations
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Preservation or degradation? Communal management and ecological change in a southeast Michigan forest
F. Nelson, E. Collins, A. Frechette, Cynthia Koenig +8 more
2008Biodiversity and Conservation5 citations
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Regenerating Scholarly Ecologies: Thoughts on Seeing the Forest for the Trees
John Aloysius Zinda
2020Society & Natural Resources4 citations
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Who Purchases Flood Insurance, and Why? Evidence from the Hudson Valley
John Aloysius Zinda, Bryce Vitulli, Shorna Allred, David L. Kay +6 more
2025International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction3 citations Open access
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Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists
John Aloysius Zinda
2023Journal of Development Studies3 citations
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How Homeownership, Race, and Social Connections Influence Flood Preparedness Measures: Evidence from 2 Small U.S. Cities
John Aloysius Zinda, Ziyu Zhao, James Zhang, Sarah M. Alexander +4 more
2023Environmental Sociology3 citations
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Trends in Flood Insurance Take‐up: Evidence From New York State
Kathryn Foster, John Aloysius Zinda, Sharon Tennyson, David L. Kay
2025Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy1 citations
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How Gender Dynamics Shape Off‐farm Work in Upland Southwest China ☆
John Aloysius Zinda, Amit Anshumali
2022Rural sociologist1 citations
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Political Ecologies of State Land Management
John Aloysius Zinda
20201 citations
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Away from the Soil: Migration and Change in Rural China
John Aloysius Zinda
20061 citations
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An analysis of national flood insurance program pricing in New York State
John Aloysius Zinda, Kathryn Foster, Sharon Tennyson, David L. Kay
2026Population and environment0 citations Open access
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Unveiling Perspectives and Insights: A Survey of Environmental and Natural Resource Sociologists and Social Scientists
J. Ulrich-Schad, John Aloysius Zinda, Huai-Jin Qin, D. Matarrita-Cascante +2 more
2024Society & Natural Resources0 citations Open access
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Tim Bartley, Rules without Rights: Land, Labor, and Private Authority in the Global Economy
John Aloysius Zinda
2020International Sociology0 citations
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Managing the Anthropocene: The Labour of Environmental Regeneration
John Aloysius Zinda
2018Dog Days0 citations Open access
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Varying Impacts of Tourism Participation on Natural Resource Use in Communities in Southwest China
John Aloysius Zinda, Jian-Mei Yang, Xi-Ming Xue, Hai-Lan Cheng
2014Human Ecology0 citations
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Chen Village: Revolution to Globalization – By Anita Chan, Richard Madsen, and Jonathan Unger
John Aloysius Zinda
20100 citations
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Obama Wins the Heartland: Vertical Isomorphy Between Local Community Dynamics and the New Politics
Josh Pacewicz, Len Albright, Paul Geoffrey Bakken, Stefan Bargheer +12 more
20080 citations
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Home Again: Migrant Cosmopolitanism and Change in Rural China
John Aloysius Zinda
20070 citations
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