Yu-Chia Lin

Yu-Chia Lin.

Education:

MS, Geography, 2024, National Taiwan University

BA, Geography, 2021, National Taiwan Normal University

Research Interests:

Political Ecology; Economic Geography; Environmental Governance; Science, Technology, and Society; Distant Water Fishery

Grants and Awards:

2025, Best Master’s Thesis Award, Taiwan Study Research Center, National Taiwan Library

2025, Excellent Master's Thesis, Taiwan Science, Technology, and Society Association

2024, Master's Thesis Award in International Relations Studies, The annual meeting of the Institute of International Relations of the Republic of China

2024, Outstanding Thesis Publication, Geographical Society of China (Taipei) and Geography Academic Symposium

Bio:

Yu-Chia Lin is a PhD student in the Department of Geography at the University at Buffalo. His research interests span political ecology, economic geography, and geopolitics, with a focus on the complex intersections of industry, state relations, and environmental governance. Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/view/yu-chialin/home

Recent Courses Taught:

GEO 105 Lab: Earth, Environment & Climate Lab

Publications:

Ho, C.-Y., Lin, Y.-C., & Hung, P.-Y. (2025). Scientized territoriality over the ocean: Data production, resource distribution, and the political ecology of the high seas fishery. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544251383355

Lin, Y. C., Wu, Y. Z., & Hung, P. Y. (2025). Elastic identities and the transnational connections of multiple industries of Hakka diaspora in Mauritius. Global Hakka Studies, 25: 1-48. (in Chinese)

Hung, P. Y. & Lin, Y. C. (2025). Ocean geographies. In Mamadouh, V., Koch, N., Woon, C. Y., Agnew, J. (Eds.) The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography – Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons Inc. 

Lin, Y. C. & Su, S. J. (2023). Coexistence of Agricultural and Industrial Landuse on Farmland: The Political Ecology of Plumbing Hardware Manufacture in Dingfanpo, Lukang. Journal of Geographical Science, 104: 91-124. (in Chinese)