Current Research Interests

• Global scale livestock transition with specific reference to China
• Regional models of industrial growth and structural change (shift-share and multi-factor partitioning)
• Peri-urban land use and rural to urban land conversion in Guangdong
• Housing challenges in the urban villages of Shenzhen

Other Research Interests (noncurrent)

• Slaughterhouse reform and historical geography of public abattoirs in the United Kingdom
• Restructuring of Canada’s meat-packing industry
• Maquiladoras and Income Distribution in Mexico City
• Spatial Distribution of Income in Canada’s Metropolitan Areas
• Industrial Plant Closure in Ontario
• Industrial Ecology of Western Australia
• Planning history of industrial satellite cities