Research

My primary research interests are water and energy questions in China, and geographies of garbage and waste in the US and worldwide.

Recent Publications

Magee, Darrin. (forthcoming). “Dams in East Asia: Controlling Water but Creating Problems.” In Harris, Paul and Graeme Lang (eds.), Routledge Handbook of East Asia and the Environment (Routledge).

Magee, Darrin. (December 2013) “The Politics of Water in Rural China: A Review of English-language Scholarship.” Journal of Peasant Studies 40 (6), pp. 1189-1208.  Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fjps20/40/6#.UsYrIfRDuSp.

Drennen, Tom and Darrin Magee (2012/2013). “Nuclear Power Prospects in a Post-Tsunami East Asia.” China Environment Series 12 , pp. 99-101. Available at http://go.wilsoncenter.org/219MVU6430000s8004zAB00.

Tullos, Desiree, Bryan Tilt, Darrin Magee, Aaron Wolf, Eric Foster-Moore, Eddie Schmitt, Francis Gassert, and Kelly Kibler (2013). “Biophysical, socioeconomic and geopolitical vulnerabilities to hydropower development on the Nu River, China.” Ecology and Society 18 (3). Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-05465-180316.