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Peter Ho is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Social Sciences. Among subfields, Sociology and Political Science, Plant Science, Economics and Econometrics, Molecular Biology, and Building and Construction feature prominently in their work.

The scientist's research topics cover various areas including:

  • Mining and Resource Management
  • Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Occupational Health and Safety Research
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Public Relations and Crisis Communication
  • Disaster Management and Resilience

Peter Ho has contributed significantly to academic journals, with frequent publications in these venues:

  • The Extractive Industries and Society
  • Sustainability
  • Safety Science
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Land Use Policy

Representative recent papers include:

  • "Sustainable Development Levels and Influence Factors in Rural China Based on Rural Revitalization Strategy" (2022, Sustainability)
  • "Uncovering coal mining accident coverups: An alternative perspective on China's new safety narrative" (2022, Safety Science)
  • "Mining violations, rent-seeking, and resource governance in China: Evidence from central environmental protection inspection" (2023, The Extractive Industries and Society)
  • "Framing and blaming: Media coverage of coal mining accident coverups in China" (2021, The Extractive Industries and Society)
  • "Strategic interaction of industrial land conveyance behaviors in China: Based on an asymmetric two-regime Spatial Durbin Model" (2020, Journal of Cleaner Production)

Collaborations are an important aspect of their work, with frequent coauthors including Qiuping Chen, Xiaogang Wu, Kees Krul, Ruifen Ren, and Zhe Ji. These collaborators have contributed to multiple research outputs alongside Peter Ho.

Best Publications

  • Who Owns China's Land? Policies, Property Rights and Deliberate Institutional Ambiguity

    Peter Ho

  • Greening Without Conflict? Environmentalism, NGOs and Civil Society in China

    Peter Ho

  • Institutions in Transition: Land Ownership, Property Rights, and Social Conflict in China

    P.P.S. Ho

  • China's embedded activism : opportunities and constraints of a social movement

    Peter Ho;Richard L. Edmonds

  • Genetically modified and organic crops in developing countries: a review of options for food security.

    Hossein Azadi;Peter Ho

  • Agricultural land conversion drivers: A comparison between less developed, developing and developed countries

    H. Azadi;P. Ho;L. Hasfiati

  • Embedded Activism and Political Change in a Semiauthoritarian Context

    P.P.S. Ho

  • CHINA'S EMBEDDED ACTIVISM

    Peter Ho

  • The ‘credibility thesis’ and its application to property rights: (In)Secure land tenure, conflict and social welfare in China

    Peter Ho;Peter Ho

  • China's ‘Developmental Outsourcing’: A critical examination of Chinese global ‘land grabs’ discourse

    Irna Hofman;Peter Ho

  • Whose land? The political economy of land titling in transitional economies

    Peter Ho;Max Spoor

  • Benefits of Bt cotton counterbalanced by secondary pests? Perceptions of ecological change in China.

    Jennifer H. Zhao;Peter Ho;Hossein Azadi

  • Institutions in Transition

    Peter Ho

  • China’s Rangelands under Stress: A Comparative Study of Pasture Commons in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

    Peter Ho

  • Biotechnology and food safety in China : Consumers' acceptance or resistance?

    Peter Ho;Eduard B. Vermeer;Jennifer H. Zhao

  • Rangeland Degradation in North China Revisited? A Preliminary Statistical Analysis to Validate Non-Equilibrium Range Ecology

    P.P.S. Ho

  • Sustainable recycling model: A comparative analysis between India and Tanzania

    Bob Jan Schoot Uiterkamp;Hossein Azadi;Peter Ho

  • In defense of endogenous, spontaneously ordered development: institutional functionalism and Chinese property rights

    Peter Ho

  • The Clash over State and Collective Property: The Making of the Rangeland Law*

    P.P.S. Ho

  • An endogenous theory of property rights: opening the black box of institutions

    Peter Ho

  • Urban land administration and planning in China: Opportunities and constraints of spatial data models

    Jianquan Cheng;Jianquan Cheng;Jan Turkstra;Mingjun Peng;Ningrui Du

  • Perspectives of Time and Change: Rethinking Embedded Environmental Activism in China

    Peter Ho;Richard Louis Edmonds

  • Who owns China's housing? Endogeneity as a lens to understand ambiguities of urban and rural property

    Peter Ho;Peter Ho

  • Mining-induced displacement and resettlement in China: A study covering 27 villages in 6 provinces

    Xiuyun Yang;Heng Zhao;Peter Ho;Peter Ho

  • Formalizing informal homes, a bad idea: The credibility thesis applied to China’s “extra-legal” housing

    Li Sun;Peter Ho;Peter Ho

  • Is mining harmful or beneficial? A survey of local community perspectives in China

    Xiuyun Yang;Peter Ho;Peter Ho

  • Alternative Approaches to Food: Community Supported Agriculture in Urban China

    Kees Krul;Peter Ho

  • Institutional function versus form: the evolutionary credibility of land, housing and natural resources

    Peter Ho;Peter Ho

  • Empty institutions, non-credibility and pastoralism: China’s grazing ban, mining and ethnicity

    Peter Ho

  • Biotech and Food Safety in China: Consumers’ Acceptance or Resistance?

    Peter Ho;Eduard B. Vermeer;Jennifer H. Zhao

Frequent Co-Authors

Hossein Azadi
Hossein Azadi Ghent University
Jordi Cortina
Jordi Cortina University of Alicante
Mark Reed
Mark Reed Scotland's Rural College
Frank Witlox
Frank Witlox Ghent University

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