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Faculty of Social Sciences Student Development Endowment Fund (SDEF)
Research Impact Fund-supported (RIF) Internal Research Conversation Workshop on Smart Low-carbon Communities Project in Hong Kong on 2nd July 2021
HKBU and Beijing Normal University Zhuhai Campus establish Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory for Water Security
Seminar analyses COVID-19 recovery issues from the social sciences perspective
HKBU’s Department of Geography performs well in the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2020
Dr. Meng Gao and Prof. Donggen Wang respectively receive the President’s Award for Outstanding Performance as Young Researcher 2021 and the Faculty Performance Award in Scholarly Work 2021
CGS and GEOG first Webinar Series: Geo-Information in Smart Societies and Environment (GISSE)
Asian Energy Studies Centre (AESC) and Geography Department organised “Hong Kong x Foshan x Seoul Online Sharing Workshop – Women and Low-carbon Energy Community” on 9 Mar 2021
Dr. Daphne Mah and four colleagues from the Department of Geography received a HK$4 Million Research Grant Council’s Research Impact Fund for a Novel, Interdisciplinary Study on the Role of Big Data Analytics in Promoting Smart Low-carbon Cities
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
M. Waleed & M. Sajjad (2021)Leveraging cloud-based computing and spatial modeling approaches for land surface temperature disparities in response to land cover change: Evidence from Pakistan. https://doi.org/10.1016/
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Naqvi SAA, Sajjad M et al. Integrating Spatial Modelling and Space–Time Pattern Mining Analytics for Vector Disease-Related Health Perspectives: A Case of Dengue Fever in Pakistan.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182212018
2022. Zhu, L and Lo, K. Eco-socialism and the political ecology of forest conservation in the Greater Khingan Range, China. Political Geography, 93, 102533.
2021 Wang, X and Lo, K. Just transition: A conceptual review. Energy Research & Social Science, 82, 102291.
Zhai, W., Fu, X., Liu, M., & Peng, Z. R. (2021). The impact of ethnic segregation on neighbourhood-level social distancing in the United States amid the early outbreak of COVID-19. Urban Studies, 00420980211050183.
Zhai, W., Peng, Z. R., & Bai, X. (2021). Prototypical Resilience Projects for Postdisaster Recovery Planning: From Theory to Action. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 0739456X211048928.
Zhai, W., & Yue, H. (2021) Economic resilience during COVID-19: An insight from permanent business closures. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 0308518X211055181.
Hossain, M.L. & Li, J. (2021) Disentangling the effects of climatic variability and climate extremes on the belowground biomass of C3- and C4-dominated grasslands across five ecoregions. Science of the Total Environment, 760,143894.
Lai, Y., Li, J., Gu, X., Liu, C., & Chen, Y. D. (2021). Global Compound Floods from Precipitation and Storm Surge: Hazards and the Roles of Cyclones, Journal of Climate, 34(20), 8319-8339. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0050.1
Use of a multiscalar GRACE-based standardized terrestrial water storage index for assessing global hydrological droughts. Journal of Hydrology. 603, 126871. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021
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Xing, C., Liu, C., Wu, H., Lin, J., Wang, S., & Gao, M.: Ground-based vertical profile observations of atmospheric composition on the Tibetan Plateau (2017–2019), Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-195
Fu, X., & Zhai, W. (2021) Examining the spatial and temporal relationship between social vulnerability and stay-at-home behaviors in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sustainable cities and society, 67, 102757
Bai, X., Steiner, R. L., & Zhai, W. (2021) Beyond Neighborhood Design: Exploring the Effects of Smart Growth on Older Adults’ Travel Behavior over Time. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 0739456X211020352.
Coe, N. M. and Yang, C. (2021) Mobile gaming production networks, platform business groups and the market power of China’s Tencent. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Doi: 10.1080/24694452.2021.1933887.
Lin, L.Z., Gao, M. et al. (2021) Ultrafine particle, blood pressure and adult hypertension: a population-based survey in Northeast China. Environmental Research Letters, in press, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1c28
Lo, K. (2021) Authoritarian environmentalism, just transition, and the tension between environmental protection and social justice in China’s forestry reform. Forest Policy and Economics, 131, 102574.
Yang, S, Wang, D and Lo, K. (2021) An inverted-U relationship between house prices and migrant integration. Cities, 103375.
Gao, M., Yang Y., Liao, H. et al. (2021) Reduced light absorption of Black Carbon (BC) and its influence on BC-boundary-layer interactions during "APEC Blue". Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 11405–11421
Liu, C., Gao, M., Hu, Q., Brasseur, G.P., & Carmichael, G.R. (2021) Stereoscopic Monitoring: A Promising Strategy to Advance Diagnostic and Prediction of Air Pollution. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 102 (4): E730–E737
Wang, Y., Mao, Z. and Wang, D. (2021) Housing affordability and mental health in urban China: a cross-sectional study. Housing Studies. (published online) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/
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Yang, C. and Chan, D. Y-T. (2021) Market expansion of domestic gaming firms in Shenzhen, China: Dilemma of globalization and regionalization. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 112 (3): 256-273. doi: 10.1111/tesg.12459
RIF Project (Project Coordinator: Dr. Daphne Mah) Exploring the role of big data analytics in promoting smart low-carbon cities: A human centered, community-based, and deep engagement approach in Hong Kong, 2021-2024
GRF Project (PI: Prof Donggen Wang) Urban expansion and travel behavior evolution in Shenzhen: the role of travel time budget, 2021-2024
GRF Project (PI: Dr. Meng Gao) Improving predictions of ground-level PM2.5 concentrations in Asia with deep learning and the world’s first geostationary air pollution satellite, 2021/2022
GRF Project (PI: Prof Chun Yang)
Evolving Spaces and Scales of Innovation in China: The Emergence of Makerspace Innovation in Digital Fabrication in Shenzhen, 2020-2023
GRF Project (PI: Dr Jianfeng Li)
Temporal evolution of sub-daily precipitation extremes in Hong Kong: Dependency on temperature and implications to flash floods, 2020-2023
Early Career Scheme Project (PI: Dr Meng Gao) Assimilating surface PM2.5 and ozone measurements to improve health exposure assessment and air quality forecasting in South China, 2020-2023
GRF Project (PI: Prof Qiming Zhou) Assessment of water resource change over Central Asian aridzone using remote sensing, global hydrological models and machine learning approach, 2020-2021
GRF Project (PI: Dr Lachlan Barber)
Heritage conservation and the creation of new urban values: A comparison of three historical sites in Hong Kong, 2019-2021
GRF Project (PI: Dr Kevin Lo)
Decentralized climate governance and policy implementation in China: Unraveling a paradox, 2019-2021