Department of Politics and International Relations
Tonghua Li
Research
Title of research:
The high politics of food: investigating the intersection between geopolitics, food security and environmental sustainability
Brief overview of research topic:
I am doing a PhD co-supervised by Professor Tony Heron in the Department of Politics & International Relations and Jonathan Green at the Stockholm Environment Institute, York. I am interested in studying how geopolitical dynamics alter food production and consumption patterns and reflect on the potential impacts of such changes on environmental sustainability.
Funding
University of York - China Scholarship Council (CSC) joint-funded PhD Scholarship
Research interests
environmental politics, food security, the political economy of international relations, global trade and sustainable production and consumption, Geopolitics.
Tonghua is a researcher on the PhD in Environment and Politics.
