Areas of specialization

Agricultural water management, policy and institution; Economics of climate change; Rural environmental policy.

Office hours

By appointment

Recent courses

Advanced Natural Resource Economics 
Economy of Water Scarcity and Policies 
Economic Analysis of Natural Resources Policy

Graduated students

By 2016, trained more than 20 MS, PhD and Post-doc in agricultural economics and rural development. Most of them work in universities and academies in China or abroad.

Education

• 1997-2000: PhD in Agri. Economics, Chinese Academy of Agricultrual Sciences, China

• 1993-1996: MS in Agricultural Economics, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, China

• 1989-1993: BS in Agricultural Economics, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, China

Employment history

• 2015 -present:  Professor, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, PKU

                         Director, China Centre for Agricultural Policy (CCAP), PKU

• 2009 -2015:      Professor and Deputy Director, CCAP, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

• 2004 -2009:      Associtate Professor, CCAP, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

• 2000 -2004:      Assistant Professor, CCAP, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

• 2003:      Visiting scholar, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Davis, University of California.

• 2001-2002:      Post-Doctor, International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Current other major positions

• Editorial Board Member, Progress in Geography

• Editorial Board Member, Water Economics and Policy

• Member of Council, China Agricultural Technology Economic Association

• Member of Council, China Management Modernization

• Member of Academic Committee, dry farming and water saving Agriculture Key Laboratory

Major awards and honorary titles

• "Honorable Council Member”, Research Association of China Management Modernization, 2015.

• "The 100-Talent Programme”, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2014

• Emerald Outstanding Paper, “Domestic Solid Waste Discharge and Its Determinants in Rural China”, China Agricultural Economic Review, 2014

• Outstanding Youth Scientist, National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC) in China, 2009

• Outstanding Paper, China Water Conservancy Society,“Empirical Study of Reform of Irrigation Management in the Irrigation Districts of Yellow River Basin, 2005.

Consulting experience

Consultants for more than 10 international organizations, including United Nations Development Program (UNDP), World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), Department for International Development (DFID), International Water Management Institute (IWMI), University of Lethbridge in Canada, State Office of Comprehensive Agricultural Development (SOCAD), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Ministry of Water Resources in China (MWR), Development and Reform Commission in China (DRC), etc.

Publications

Published more than 170 papers, of which 60+ in the refereed international journals, including JEEM, AJAE and Globle Climate Change; Co-author of 6 books. The selected 10 Articles in Referenced International Journals:

1.      Wang, Jinxia, Yanrong Li, Jikun Huang, 2017. Tingting Yan and Tianhe Sun, 2017. Growing Water Scarcity, Food Security and Government Responses in China, Global Food Security, 10..1016/j.gfs.2017.01.003 (SCI)

2.      Ali, Tariq, Jikun Huang, Jinxia Wang and Wei Xie, 2017. Global Footprints on Water and Land Resources through China’s Food Trade, Global Food Security, Global Food Security 12 (2017) 139–145 (SCI)

3.      Hou, Lingling, Jikun Huang* and Jinxia Wang, 2017. Early Warning Information, Farmers’ Perceptions of and Adaptations to Drought in China, Climatic Change, 141:197–212, DOI 10.1007/s10584-017-1900-9.(SCI/SSCI)

4.      Mendelsohn, Robert, Jinxia Wang, 2017. The impact of climate on farm inputs in developing countries agriculture, Atmósfera 30(2), 77-86 (2017) doi: 10.20937/ATM.2017.30.02.01 (SCI)

5.      Huang, Qiuqiong, Jinxia Wang* and Yumin Li, 2017. Do Water Saving Technologies Save Water? Empirical Evidence from North China, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 82 (2017) 1–16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2016.10.003 (SCI/EI)

6.      Zhang, Tianyi, Jinxia Wang and Yishu Teng, 2017. Adaptive Effectiveness of Irrigated Area Expansion in Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change on Crop Yields in Northern China, Sustainability 2017, 9, 851; doi:10.3390/su9050851 (SCI)

7.      Wang, Jinxia*, Lijuan Zhang, Jikun Huang, 2016. How could we realize a win–win strategy on irrigation price policy? Evaluation of a pilot reform project in Hebei Province, China, Journal of Hydrology, 539:379-391; doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.05.036, (SCI/SSCI/EI)

8.      Wang, Jinxia*, K. K. Klein, Henning Bjornlund, Lijuan Zhang & Wencui Zhang, 2016. Changing to more efficient irrigation technologies in southern Alberta (Canada): an empirical analysis, Water International, DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2015.1086257. (SCI)

9.      Sun,Tianhe, Jinxia Wang*, Qiuqiong Huang and Yanrong Li, 2016. Assessment of Water Rights and Irrigation Pricing Reforms in Heihe River Basin in China,Water, doi:10.3390/w8080333(5 August 2016) (SCI/SSCI)

10.    Cremades, Roger, Sabrina GSA Rothausen, Declan Conway, Xiaoxia Zou, Jinxia Wang and Yu’e Li, 2016. Co-benefits and trade-offs in the water–energy nexus of irrigation modernization in China, Environmental Resources Letter, 11 (2016) 054007, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/5/054007. (SCI/SSCI/EI)