Hua Qin

Hua Qin is an associate professor at the Division of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Missouri. Trained as an environmental and resource social scientist with emphasis on human population dynamics and sustainable development, he has a diverse academic background in sociology, demography, geography, environmental science as well l as mixed and spatial methodological research. Qin's research agenda involves five distinct but interrelated areas: population (migration) and the environment; vulnerability and adaptation to environmental change; community, natural resources and sustainability; applied research methods and data practices; and the sociology of environmental and resource social science.