Resume

• 2009

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Public Administration

  University of North Texas

  Certificate in Geographic Information System

  University of North Texas

• 2001

  Bachelor

  Urban and Regional Planning

• 1998

  Chinese

  English

  Chief Editor of the School Journal

  The No. 5 High School of Taiyuan

• Teaching

  University Teaching

  PowerPoint

  Visual C#

  SPSS

  Transportation Management

  Research

  Higher Education

  Public Speaking

  Stata

  Quantitative Research

  Microsoft Office

  Emergency Management

  Statistics

  Data Analysis

  ArcGIS

  GIS

  Public Administration

  Statistical Modeling

  Microsoft Excel

  Grass-Root Organisations

  Intergovernmental Collaboration

  and Emergency Preparedness: An Institutional Collective Action Approach.

  Simon Andrew

  Local Government Studies

  Vol. 41

  Issue 5

  This paper examines the importance of grass-root emergency response groups in emergency preparedness. Consistent with the Institutional Collective Action framework

  we highlight key constraints associated with local government strategies of mutual resource exchange and barriers to intergovernmental collaboration. We examine local governments’ emergency preparedness using survey data collected in the North Central Texas region. We employed a simple OLS analysis to determine mutual exchange and Poisson estimations on the likelihood of local governments receiving and providing external assistance. Findings showed that the presence of grass-root organisations in a jurisdiction is associated with emergency preparedness

  highlighting the importance of norms of volunteerism. Local political institutions and participation in federally funded programmes also have an effect on local government decisions.

  Grass-Root Organisations

  Intergovernmental Collaboration

  and Emergency Preparedness: An Institutional Collective Action Approach.

  Walter Peacock

  Hurricane evacuations in coastal counties have been reviewed and analyzed for the role of household preparedness and decisions before and during a disaster. However

  one of the several emerging problems in the hurricane evacuation is transportation. Transportation issues have become more important in coastal evacuations as traffic problems impinge on people’s ability to get out of harm’s way and ultimately influence their decisions to evacuate. To add to the complexity

  when families evacuate in multiple vehicles

  it leads to additional vehicular traffic on roads and increased pressure on the transportation systems. However

  little has been investigated on the characteristics that influence a household’s decision to evacuate in one or multiple vehicles. The outcome from such an analysis can help both the emergency managers and the transportation planners to targets groups that report taking more vehicles to develop policies that result in efficient evacuation. This study investigates the responses of evacuees surveyed after Hurricane Rita in the counties of Galveston

  Brazoria and Harris County. The ordinary least square regression analysis revealed that access to transportation characteristics of a household such as number of registered vehicles in a household and number of eligible drivers was positively and significantly related to evacuating in more vehicles. Meanwhile

  \nthe risk of reaching destination safely was negatively related to taking more vehicles for evacuation even though both the risk index and deterrence index were positively significant. The time of decision and evacuation did not report any statistical significance.

  Highway congestion during evacuation: examining the household’s choice of number of vehicles to evacuate

  Many people criticized how the Chinese government responded to the Wenchuan Earthquake. They focused on how it failed to address the psychological needs of the survivors. The study presented here approached this issue from a human resources perspective. It was determined that the Chinese government approached the situation in a bureaucratic way that limited the government’s capacity and barred non-profit organizations and community groups from participating. It was also found that survivors could not contact these organizations for psychological support. This study concludes that the situation called for a more flexible and improvised institution that would respond to the emerging needs of survivors.

  Hierarchy

  Construction

  or Mentality: Capacity-Limiting Government Actions in the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake of China.

  Jing-xiang Zhang

  The spatial differentiation of state is not a major concern in the mainstream Chinese urban studies yet. The state is viewed as a crucial actor in the production of urban space or a key producer of the urban space. However

  the spatiality of state

  along with its role in the production of urban space

  is neglected traditionally in the urban studies of Chinese context. This theoretical tradition leads to a number of academic issues. At the practitioner side

  the spatial differentiation is a strategy employed by municipal governments to promote city development and space production in particular places or scales and it could be understood in the traditional theoretical framework Therefore

  the academia needs to pay more attention to the spatial differentiation of state in term of the organization and distribution of state powers

  public policies

  and stateowned resources in Chinese municipalities

  and there is immediate demands to search for new theoretical frameworks beyond the traditional ones

  . This paper holds that the development of state-space theory in the Western academia provides an opportunity for re-theorizing the spatial differentiation of state and its role in the urban spatial process. Based on an analysis over the institutional difference between China and its Western counterpart

  the paper finds great potential and necessity of state space theory in urban studies. The paper conceptualizes the state space process in the context of Chinese cities. The state space process at this level represents the intertwined triple processes—the spatial process of state power structure

  the spatial process of state intervention strategy and policy

  and the spatial distributive process of state-owned resources. Finally

  the paper discusses the challenges and limitations. The traditional ambiguous worldview over the \"national\" and \"local\" states can constrain the understanding of the fruitful meanings of state space.

  AN EXPLORATION TO STATE SPATIAL DIFFERENTIATION AND CHINESE URBAN STUDIES THROUGH THE LENS OF STATE SPACE THEORY

  Jingxiang Zhang

  It is worthwhile to empirically probe the prominent value of the transformation process by employing the state rescaling perspective. However

  the state rescaling

  as an important theoretical discourse

  has not been systemically scrutinized in Chinese context. In this article

  the empirical framework based on the central state–led regional planning and its changes is established and implemented to unfold the evolution trajectory of China’s six state scaling stages since 1953. In the meantime

  it is argued that China’s state rescaling is not resulted from overall socioeconomic transformation

  but plays a role as the leading project. Therefore

  it could be concluded that state rescaling in China is neither the product of internal ‘natural economic process’ nor the consequence triggered by the globalization

  but the outcome of the state’s positive political selection.

  Rescaling as a Leading National Transformation Project: Decoding State Rescaling in China’s Changing Central State–Led Regional Planning.

  Walter Peacock

  One of the long-held assumptions of evacuation research is that households constitute the basic unit for decision making and ultimately evacuation itself. Most disaster researchers collect their data and build their models around the assumption that household decision making and ultimately evacuation are undertaken as a single unit. Recently it has been suggested that family and household evacuation patterns may be undergoing change and that there is an increasing trend of households using more than one vehicle to evacuate. This study addresses these potential changes directly by focusing on the issue of whether households actually stay together when evacuating versus splitting with groups leaving at different times. This investigation of households evacuating due to Hurricane Rita revealed that 9.3% of households evacuated in multiple groups at different times

  with nearly 17% of households in highly vulnerable areas such as Galveston

  Texas

  splitting compared with 7.3% among shadow evacuee households. The findings suggest that location in highly vulnerable areas

  concerns about reaching destinations safely

  income

  and having multiple vehicles were important determinants of splitting

  with additional sociodemographic factors displaying marginal significance as well. Consequences for future research

  modeling

  and data collection are discussed.

  Evacuating Together or Separately: Factors Influencing Split Evacuations Prior to Hurricane Rita.

  Xiangyu (Dale)

  Li

  CCDI 悉地国际

  Department of Public Administration in University of North Texas

  University of North Texas

  West Texas A&M University

  Oklahoma State University

  Shanghai

  China

  Researcher

  CCDI 悉地国际

  PADM 4450 Public Policy Analysis;\nPADM 3420 Bureaucracy and Public Policy;\nPADM 3000 Introduction to Public Administration;\nEADP 3010 Introduction to Emergency Management

  University of North Texas

  PHD Candidate

  University of North Texas

  Research Assistant

  Public Administration

  Emergency Management

  Social Network Analysis

  GIS

  University of North Texas

  West Texas A&M University

  Canyon

  TX

  Assistant Professor and EMA/PA Program Coordinator

  Department of Public Administration in University of North Texas

  Oklahoma State University

  Stillwater

  Oklahoma

  Assistant Professor of Emergency Management

  University of North Texas

  Adjunct Instructor

  PADM 4450 Public Policy Analysis\nPADM 3020 Public Management/EADP 3080 Leadership and Organizational Behavior

  University of North Texas