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Dr. Jianfeng Li receives the Faculty Performance Award in Scholarly Work 2023
Dr. Sajjad Muhammad’s research work selected as “Innovative Digital-based Solutions” that contribute to improving quality of life in cities and regions by the UN-HABITAT
Three Department of Geography faculty members Named World’s Top 2% Scientists
Dr. Meng Gao receives the Young Collaborative Research Grant (YCRG) of over HK$3.5 million in the Hong Kong Research Grant Council’s Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) 2022/23 Exercise
HKBU Department of Geography participated in Hong Kong Geography Day 2022
Dr. Meng Gao wins Xie Yibing Youth Meteorological Science and Technology Award 2022
Homecoming 2022 – United Digitally 2.0 for Geography Alumni
Geography recent PhD graduate won the 1st prize of the Madam Kwok Chung Bo Fun PhD Student Research Excellence Awards for AY2022/23
Visit to Stephen Hui Geological Museum
HKBU Distinguished Geography Seminar (27 October 2022)
The Hong Kong team wins the 2022 International Geography Olympiad
HKBU Distinguished Geography Seminar (7 July 2022)
Three Department of Geography faculty members receive General Research Fund (GRF) grants (2022/23) worth over 2.8 million HKD
Dr. Jianfeng Li is awarded the RGC Research Fellow Scheme (RFS) 2022/23 with over 5 million dollars
Research Impact Fund-supported (RIF) International Symposium held in June 2022
Geography student wins 2022 Hong Kong Young Geographer of the Year Competition (YGOTY)
HKBU Distinguished Geography Seminar (9 June 2022)
Dr. Daphne Mah receives the Faculty Performance Award in Scholarly Work 2022
HKBU Distinguished Geography Seminar (5 May 2022)
Dr. Sajjad Muhammad’s publication in the “Top 100 Earth Science” Scientific Reports papers in 2021
HKBU students win top awards at the Global AI Challenge for Building E&M Facilities – AI Competition
HKBU Distinguished Geography Seminar
(18 March 2022)
Professor Bernie Owen explains the formation of Yuncheng Salt Lake, China’s colourful ‘Dead Sea’, on CNN
Dr. Meng Gao receives the 2021 “Tsinghua University-Inspur Group Computational Geoscience Young Talent Award”
Managing disasters with artificial intelligence
HKBU and Beijing Normal University Zhuhai Campus establish Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory for Water Security
HKBU’s Department of Geography performs well in the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2020
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
Dr. Gao Meng receives the 2020 EGU Atmospheric Sciences Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
Wang D., Li L. (2022) Disparities in spatio-temporal accessibility to fresh foods in Shanghai, China. Applied Geography, Vol. 145, August, 102752
Zhou, M., Wang, D. & Guan, X. (2022) Co-evolution of the built environment and travel behaviour in Shenzhen, China. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Vol. 107, June, 103291
Kanwai, S., Ding, X., Wu, S. & Sajjad, M. (2022) Vertical Ground Displacements and Its Impact on Erosion along the Karachi Coastline, Pakistan. Remote Sens. 2022, 14(9), 2054
Sajjad, M. et al. (2022) Assessing Response Readiness to Health Emergencies: A Spatial Evaluation of Health and Socio-Economic Justice in Pakistan. Social Indicators Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-022-02922-9
Sajjad, M. et al. (2022) Spatial inequalities in education status and its determinants in Pakistan: A district-level modelling in the context of sustainable development Goal-4. Applied Geography, Volume 140, March 2022, 102665
Zhang, W. & Gao, M. et al. (2022) Long-term PM0.1 exposure and human blood lipid metabolism: New insight from the 33-community study in China. Environmental Pollution, Vol. 303, 119171
Zhou, C. and Gao, M. et al. (2022) Optimal Planning of Air Quality-Monitoring Sites for Better Depiction of PM2.5 Pollution across China.
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Xiao, X. et al. (2022) Amplified upward trend of the joint occurrences of heat and ozone extremes in China over 2013–2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0222.1
Liu, J and Lo, K. (2022) Chinese environmental activism and the environmental politics of rumors, Political Geography, 95, 102593.
Hassink, R. and Yang, C. (2021) Creative industries at the intersection between local agglomeration, national regulation and global networks. Special Issue, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Vol. 112, No. 3. doi: 10.1111/tesg.12474.
Chan, D. Y.-T. and Yang, C. (2021) Institutional escape and embeddedness in the cross-border production networks: Relocation of Chinese electronics small and medium-sized enterprises to Vietnam. doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2021.2010859
Yang, C. (2021) Cross-border expansion of digital platforms and transformation of the trade and distribution networks of imported fresh fruits from Southeast Asia to China.
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Li, L. & Wang, D. (2022) Do neighborhood food environments matter for eating through online-to-offline food delivery services? Applied Geography, Vol. 138, 102620
Li, S., Guan, X. & Wang, D. (2022) How do constrained car ownership and car use influence travel and life satisfaction? Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Vol. 155, 202-218
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.
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Zhu, L and Lo, K. (2022) Eco-socialism and the political ecology of forest conservation in the Greater Khingan Range, China. Political Geography, 93, 102533.
Wang, X and Lo, K. (2021) 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.
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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.
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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
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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