DEPT OF GEOGRAPHY



Researcher : Chen WY

Project Title:Environmental externalities of river water pollution: a spatial hedonic modeling of the Pearl River in Guangzhou
Investigator(s):Chen WY, Jim CY
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2012


Project Title:The economic value of veteran trees in Hong Kong: A contingent valuation study
Investigator(s):Chen WY, Jim CY
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2013


Project Title:Public willingness to pay for heritage trees and its determinants in Guangzhou city
Investigator(s):Chen WY
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund - General Award
Start Date:09/2013


Project Title:Institutional and cultural sensitivities of public willingness-to-pay for river restoration: A comparative contingent valuation study in Guangzhou (China) and Flanders (Belgium)
Investigator(s):Chen WY
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:International Journal of Arts & Science conference for academic disciplines; The role of urban green infrastructure in offsetting carbon emissions in 35 major Chinese cities
Investigator(s):Chen WY
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2014
Completion Date:04/2014


List of Research Outputs

Chen W.Y. and Wang D.T., Economic development and natural amenity: an economic analysis of urban green spaces in China, Urban Forestry and Urban Greening . Elsevier, 2013, 12: 435-442.
Chen W.Y. and Wang D.T., Urban forest development in China: Natural endowment or socioeconomic product?, Cities. Elsevier, 2013, 35: 62-68.
Wang D.T. and Chen W.Y., Foreign direct investment, institutional development, and environmental externalities: evidence from China, Journal of Environmental Management. Elsevier, 2014, 135: 81-90.


Researcher : Chen Y

Project Title:Environmental externalities of river water pollution: a spatial hedonic modeling of the Pearl River in Guangzhou
Investigator(s):Chen WY, Jim CY
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2012


Project Title:The economic value of veteran trees in Hong Kong: A contingent valuation study
Investigator(s):Chen WY, Jim CY
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2013


Project Title:Public willingness to pay for heritage trees and its determinants in Guangzhou city
Investigator(s):Chen WY
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund - General Award
Start Date:09/2013


Project Title:Institutional and cultural sensitivities of public willingness-to-pay for river restoration: A comparative contingent valuation study in Guangzhou (China) and Flanders (Belgium)
Investigator(s):Chen WY
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:International Journal of Arts & Science conference for academic disciplines; The role of urban green infrastructure in offsetting carbon emissions in 35 major Chinese cities
Investigator(s):Chen WY
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2014
Completion Date:04/2014


List of Research Outputs



Researcher : Cheung TOL

List of Research Outputs

Cheung T.O.L. and Fok L., Assessing the role of ecotourism training on changing participants’ pro-environmental knowledge, attitude and behaviour, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research. 2014, 19: 645-661.
Cheung T.O.L. and Jim C.Y., Expectations and willingness-to-pay for ecotourism services in Hong Kong's conservation areas, International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology. Taylor and Francis, 2014, 21: 149-159.
Cheung T.O.L., Cheung T.T.M. and Tao T.C.H., From a hiking sharing website to be a real business: a success story of Hong Kong ecotourism operator, Journal of Ecotourism. 2013, 12: 221-225.
Cheung T.O.L., Improving visitor management approaches for the changing preferences and behaviours of country park visitors in Hong Kong, Natural Resources Forum. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, 37: 231-241.
Cheung T.O.L. and Fok L., The motivations and environmental attitudes of nature-based visitors to protected areas in Hong Kong, International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology. 2014, 21: 28-38.
Cheung T.O.L., Fok L., Tsang E.P.K., Fang W. and Tsang H.Y., Understanding residents’ environmental knowledge in a metropolitan city of Hong Kong, China, Environmental Education Research. 2014, 1-18.
Gou G...R..., Fang W... and Cheung T.O.L., Local residents’ perception on the impacts of ecotourism development in the Wolong Nature Reserve, China, The International Conference on Sustainable Tourism and Resilience in Urban Environmets. 2014.
Zhang Y..., Tan L..., Cheung T.O.L. and Fok L..., The motivation, pro-environmental behaviour and attitude of birdwatchers in mainland China and Hong Kong, The International Conference on Sustainable Tourism and Resilience in Urban Environments. 2014.


Researcher : Fang W

List of Research Outputs

Cheung T.O.L., Fok L., Tsang E.P.K., Fang W. and Tsang H.Y., Understanding residents’ environmental knowledge in a metropolitan city of Hong Kong, China, Environmental Education Research. 2014, 1-18.


Researcher : Hart MA

Project Title:Impacts of air quality and outdoor thermal comfort on visitors to The Peak, Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Hart MA
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011


List of Research Outputs

Wong P.Y.P., Hart M.A. and Lai P.C., Microclimate variations between semienclosed and open sections of a marathon route, Advances in Meteorology. US, Hindawi, 2013.


Researcher : He H

List of Research Outputs

Fei J., Lai Z.P., Zhang D. and He H., Extreme Sea Ice Events in the Chinese Marginal Seas During the Past 2000 Years, Climate Research. Amelinghausen: Inter-Research, 2013.


Researcher : Hu Z

List of Research Outputs

Lin G.C.S., Li X., Yang F. and Hu Z., Strategizing Urbanism in the Era of Neoliberalization: Power Reshuffling, Land Development, and Municipal Finance in Urbanizing China, Urban Studies. London, UK, Routledge, 2014.


Researcher : Jim CY

Project Title:The process of desertification and its control in Northern China
Investigator(s):Jim CY, Peart MR, Zhang D
Department:School of Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Matching Fund for National Key Basic Research Development Scheme (973 Projects)
Start Date:07/2001


Project Title:Assessing the impacts of three-dimensional urban morphology on urban climate
Investigator(s):Jim CY
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011


Project Title:International Conference for Academic Disciplines; Strangler-fig trees as ecological dominants on urban mural habitats
Investigator(s):Jim CY
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2014


List of Research Outputs

Cheung T.O.L. and Jim C.Y., Expectations and willingness-to-pay for ecotourism services in Hong Kong's conservation areas, International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology. Taylor and Francis, 2014, 21: 149-159.
Jim C.Y., Air and Material Cooling Induced by a Tropical Intensive Green Roof, International Congress on Natural Science and Engineering, 7-9 May 2014. Kyoto, Japan.
Jim C.Y., Air-conditioning Energy Consumption due to Green Roofs with Different Building Thermal Insulation, Applied Energy. Amsterdam, Elsevier, 2014, 128: 49-59.
Jim C.Y., An Object Lesson in Transplanting Large Trees, Trees Community of Practice (COP) Seminar, MTR Headquarters, Kowloon Bay, 02 October 2013. 2013.
Jim C.Y., Associate Editor, Arboriculture and Urban Forestry. Champaign, Illinois, International Society of Arboriculture, 2014.
Jim C.Y., Associate Editor, Urban Ecosystems. New York, Springer, 2014.
Jim C.Y., Building Thermal-insulation Effect on Ambient and Indoor Thermal Performance of Green Roofs, Ecological Engineering. Amsterdam, Elsevier Science, 2014, 69: 265-275.
Jim C.Y. and Zhang A.H., Defect-disorder and Risk Assessment of Heritage Trees in Urban Hong Kong, Urban Forestry and Urban Greening. Amsterdam, Elsevier Science, 2013, 12: 585-596.
Jim C.Y., EcoStar Award 2014, Awarded for sustained contribution to urban greening and environmental education in Hong Kong, by Roadshow Holdings with internet voting by citizens. 2014.
Jim C.Y., Ecodesign of an Urban Native Woodland in Hong Kong, Zero Carbon Building Journal. Hong Kong, Construction Industry Council, 2014, 1: 61-66.
Jim C.Y., Ecology and Conservation of Strangler Figs in Urban Wall Habitats, Urban Ecosystems. New York, Springer, 2014, 17: 405-426.
Jim C.Y., Fung, Charmine. MPhil Thesis on Visitor Perceptions and Experiences of the Hong Kong Geopark, 2014.
Jim C.Y., Green Roof Energetics: Systematic Organization and Integration of Knowledge, In: Britz, J., Koehler, M., Felipe, I. de (eds.), Green Cities in the World: Progression, Innovation, Organization. Madrid, Editorial Agricola Espanola, Ciudad Universitaria, 2014, pp.251-270.
Jim C.Y., Heat-sink Effect and Indoor Warning Imposed by Tropical Extensive Green Roof, Ecological Engineering. Amsterdam, Elsevier Science, 2014, 62: 1-12.
Jim C.Y., L.C. Chadwick Award for Arboricultural Research 2014, An international award of research distinction, International Society of Arboriculture. 2014.
Jim C.Y., Li Ka Shing Prize for MPhil student thesis of Gwendolyn Wong. 2014.
Jim C.Y., Member of Board of Consulting Editor, Environmental Awareness. Vadodara, India, International Society of Naturists, 2014.
Jim C.Y., Member of Editorial Board, Arboricultural Journal, the international journal of urban forestry. UK, Arboricultural Association, 2014.
Jim C.Y., Member of Editorial Board, Cities. Amsterdam, Elsevier Science, 2014.
Jim C.Y., Member of Editorial Board, Interdisciplinary Environmental Review. New York, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Jim C.Y., Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Geographical Science. Taipei, Dept. of Geography, National Univ. of Taiwan, 2014.
Jim C.Y., Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Geographical Sciences. Beijing, Springer Science Press, 2014.
Jim C.Y., Member of Editorial Board, Landscape and Urban Planning. Amsterdam, Elsevier Science, 2014.
Jim C.Y., Member of Editorial Board, Urban Forestry and Urban Greening. Amsterdam, Elsevier Science, 2014.
Jim C.Y., Member of Editorial Committee, Modern Urban Research. Nanjing, Urban Research Association, 2014.
Jim C.Y., Member of Editorial Committee, Pedosphere: A Quarterly Journal of Soil Science. Amsterdam, Elsevier, 2014.
Jim C.Y., Microclimatic Effects of a Rooftop Native Woodland, Euro-American Conference for Academic Disciplines, 31 March to 03 April 2014. Paris, France.
Jim C.Y., National Stories Scenario 11: Area Hong Kong, In: Britz, J., Koehler, M., Felipe, I. de (eds.), Green Cities in the World: Progression, Innovation, Organization. Madrid, Editorial Agricola Espanola, Ciudad Universitaria, 2014, pp. 317-320.
Jim C.Y., Passive Warming of Indoor Space Induced by Tropical Green Roof in Winter, Energy. Amsterdam, Elsevier Science, 2014, 68: 272-282.
Jim C.Y., Socioeconomic Value of Urban Greenspaces in Hong Kong, Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (BSAP) Public Forum, Science Museum Lecture Room, 29 March 2014. 2014.
Jim C.Y. and Zhang A.H., Species Composition and Tree Risk Assessment of Old-valuable Trees in Urban Hong Kong, 1st Congress of the Society for Urban Ecology, 25-27 July 2013. Berlin, Germany.
Jim C.Y., Substrate Moisture Regime as Determinant of Thermal Performance of Tropical Green Roof, World Green Infrastructure Congress, 9-13 September 2013. Nantes, France.
Jim C.Y., Sustainable Spatial Planning for Urban Greenspaces, Forum on New Cities, 30-31 August 2013. Guangzhou, China.
Jim C.Y., Sustainable Urban Greening Strategies for Compact Cities in Developing and Developed Economies, Urban Ecosystems. New York, Springer, 2013, 16: 741-761.
Jim C.Y., Sustainable Urban Greening in Compact Cities, Tree Conservation Seminar of Conservation E3 Foundation, Productivity Council Conference Hall, Kowloon Tong, 30 November 2013. 2013.
Jim C.Y., Wong, Gwendolyn. MPhil Thesis on The Mitigating Effects of Substrate Depth on Green Roof Stormwater Discharge, 2014.
Querish S., Breuste J. and Jim C.Y., Differential Community Perception of Urban Green Spaces and their Contents in the Megacity of Karachi, Pakistan, Urban Ecosystems. New York, Springer, 2013, 16: 853-870.
Tian Y.H., Jim C.Y. and Wang H.Q., Assessing the Landscape and Ecological Quality of Urban Green Spaces in Compact City, Landscape and Urban Planning. Amsterdam, Elsevier Science, 2014, 121: 97-108.
WONG K.L. and Jim C.Y., Quantitative Hydrologic Performance of Extensive Green Roof under Humid-tropical Rainfall Regime, Ecological Engineering. Amsterdam, Elsevier Science, 2014, 70: 366-378.
Zhang A.H. and Jim C.Y., Contributions of Landscape Trees in Public Housing Estates to Urban Biodiversity in Hong Kong, Urban Forestry and Urban Greening. Amsterdam, Elsevier Science, 2014, 13: 272-284.
Zhang A.H. and Jim C.Y., Species Adoption for Sustainable Forestry in Hong Kong's Degraded Countryside, International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology. Taylor and Francis, 2013, 20: 484-503.


Researcher : LAO Q

List of Research Outputs

Zhao S.X., LAO Q. and Chan Y.M., The Rise of China and Development of Financial Centres in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, In: Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev, Victor de Munck, James Sheffield , Journal of Globalization Studies. Uchitel Publishing House, 2013, 4:1: 32-62.


Researcher : LI L

List of Research Outputs

LI L. and Loo B.P.Y., Alternative and Transitional Energy Sources for Urban Transportation, Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports. Springer, 2014, 1: 19-26.
LI L. and Loo B.P.Y., Benefit-cost Analysis of Airport Infrastructure within a Sustainability Framework: A Case Study of Hong Kong International Airport, Travel Behaviour and Society: The 18th International Conference of HKSTS, 14-16 December, 2013.
LI L. and Loo B.P.Y., The Interrelationship between Railway Development and Air Flight Patronage: Implications for Low Carbon Transport in China, Low-carbon Cities: Land Use and Transportation Interventions, Shaanxi Normal University and University of Minnesota, Xian, China, June 12-13 2014. . 2014.
Loo B.P.Y., LI L., Psaraki V. and Pagoni I., CO2 emissions associated with hubbing activities in air transport: An international comparison , Journal of Transport Geography . Elsevier, 2014, 34: 185-193.


Researcher : LIU T

List of Research Outputs

LIU T. and Lin G.C.S., New Geography of Land Commodification in Chinese Cities: Uneven Landscape of Urban Land Development Under Market Reforms and Globalization, Applied Geography. New York, Elsevier, 2014, 51(7): 118-130.


Researcher : LOW CT

List of Research Outputs

LOW C.T. and Lai P.C., Understanding the geography of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) body constitution in population health, CS01-3 Applied Geography, IGU 2013 Kyoto Regional Conference, Held in Kyoto, Japan on 4-9 August 2013.. 2013.


Researcher : Lai PC

Project Title:GIS and GPS Training Course for Senior Secondary Geography Teachers
Investigator(s):Lai PC
Department:School of Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Education and Manpower Bureau - General Award
Start Date:03/2008


Project Title:GIS and GPS Training Course for Senior Secondary Geography Teachers
Investigator(s):Lai PC
Department:School of Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Education Bureau - General Award
Start Date:06/2009


Project Title:Geographic information systems for early detection of pandemic influenza outbreak in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Lai PC
Department:School of Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Research Fund for the Control of Infectious Diseases - Full Grants
Start Date:05/2010
Completion Date:08/2014


Project Title:Measuring and modelling Quality of Urban Life (QOUL) in Hong Kong: Stage 1- Focusing on objective determinants at multiple levels of spatial scale
Investigator(s):Lai PC
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011


Project Title:Measuring and modelling Quality of Urban Life (QOUL) in Hong Kong -- ian Perspective
Investigator(s):Lai PC, Cerin E
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


List of Research Outputs

Huang W.Y., Wong S.H., Cerin E. and Lai P.C., Neighborhood Environment and Physical Activity Behaviors among Chinese Adults in Hong Kong, Oral presentation, 2014 Annual Meeting of the ACSM – American College of Sports Medicine, held in Orlando, Florida on 27-31 May 2014.. 2014.
Huang W.Y., Wong S.H., Cerin E. and Lai P.C., Objectively-assessed and perceived neighborhood environment and changes of physical activity over 12 months among Hong Kong Chinese children, Oral presentation, 2014 Annual Meeting of the ISBNPA - International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, held in San Diego, California on 21-24 May 2014.. 2014.
LOW C.T. and Lai P.C., Understanding the geography of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) body constitution in population health, CS01-3 Applied Geography, IGU 2013 Kyoto Regional Conference, Held in Kyoto, Japan on 4-9 August 2013.. 2013.
Lai P.C., CyberGIS and Social Networking, Invited Speaker, Social Science summer Programme 2013 – Youth, Citizenship and Cyberspace. 2013.
Lai P.C. and Mak A.S.H., Resource Package on the Use of Geographic Information System (GIS) in Geography Lessons, Vol. 1. Education Bureau, 2013, 1.
Plass D., Chau Y.K., Thach T.Q., Jahn H.J., Lai P.C., Wong C.M. and Kreamer A., Measuring the impact of premature mortality on the population of Hong Kong by use of Standard Expected Years of Life Lost, Poster presentation, 2013 conference of "The German Society for Epidemiology" (DGEpi), held in Liepzig, Germany on 24-27 September 2013.
Plass D., Chau Y.K., Thach T.Q., Jahn H.J., Lai P.C., Wong C.M. and Kraemer A., Quantifying the burden of disease due to premature mortality in Hong Kong using Standard Expected Years of Life Lost, International Journal of Public Health . UK, Birkhauser Verlag AG, 2013, 13(1): 863.
WONG P.P.Y., Lai P.C. and Hart M., Microclimate variations of Urban Heat Island effects in Hong Kong, CS04-7 Climatology – Urban Climate (3), IGU 2013 Kyoto Regional Conference, Held in Kyoto, Japan on 4-9 August 2013.
WONG P.P.Y., Lai P.C. and Hart M., Thermal effects and marathon runners - A symbiotic relationship, Poster presentation, A37, IGU 2013 Kyoto Regional Conference, Held in Kyoto, Japan on 4-9 August 2013.
Wong P.Y.P., Hart M.A. and Lai P.C., Microclimate variations between semienclosed and open sections of a marathon route, Advances in Meteorology. US, Hindawi, 2013.
ZHENG Q., Thach T.Q., Lai P.C., Lai H.K. and Wong C.M., Estimation of Spatio-temporal Variations of PM10 Concentrations for Health Effects Study, Poster presentation, 18th Research Postgraduate Symposium (RPS 2013), Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, held in Hong Kong, 11-12 December 2013.. 2013.


Researcher : Lam WWY

Project Title:2013 International Conference of Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies; Determinants of Children's Independent Mobility in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Lam WYW
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2013
Completion Date:09/2013


List of Research Outputs



Researcher : Lam WYW

Project Title:2013 International Conference of Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies; Determinants of Children's Independent Mobility in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Lam WYW
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2013
Completion Date:09/2013


List of Research Outputs

Lam W.Y.W. and Loo B.P.Y., Determinants of Children’s Independent Mobility in Hong Kong, Towards a Harmonized Transportation Society: 10th International Conference of Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS), Taipei, Taiwan, September 9-12, 2013.. 2013.
Lam W.Y.W., Guest Editor, In: Winnie W.Y. Lam, Soora Rasouli, Harry Timmermans, Travel Behaviour and Society. The Netherlands, Elsevier, 2014, 1: 1-2.
Lam W.Y.W., Rasouli S. and Timmermans H.J.P., Issues and opportunities in spatiotemporal transport analysis: An introduction to the special issue, In: Winnie W.Y. Lam Soora Rasouli Harry Timmermans, Travel Behaviour and Society. The Netherlands, Elsevier, 2014, 1: 1-2.
Lam W.Y.W., Outstanding Presentation Awards, Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies. 2013.
Lam W.Y.W., Yao S. and Loo B.P.Y., Pedestrian exposure measures: A time-space framework, Travel Behaviour and Society . Elsevier, 2014, 1: 22-30.
Lam W.Y.W., Loo B.P.Y. and Yao S., Towards Exposure-based Time-space Pedestrian Crash Analysis in Facing the Challenges of Ageing Societies in Asia, Asian Geographer. 2013, Online First.
Lam W.Y.W. and Loo B.P.Y., Travel Behaviour & Society: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (HKSTS), 14-16 December 2013. 2013.
Loo B.P.Y. and Lam W.Y.W., A multilevel investigation of differential individual mobility of working couples with children: a case study of Hong Kong, Transportmetrica A: Transport Science. Taylor & Francis, 2013, 9: 629-652.


Researcher : Lee F

Project Title:Revealing the Long-term Dynamics of Drought: The Reconstruction of Drought History in Northwestern China over the Past Millennium
Investigator(s):Lee F
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:11/2011
Completion Date:04/2014


Project Title:Population growth, climate change, and secular population cycles in historical agrarian China
Investigator(s):Lee F
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund - General Award
Start Date:07/2012


Project Title:32nd International Geographical Congress; Drought disaster and its driving mechanism in northwestern China over the past millennium
Investigator(s):Lee F
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2012


Project Title:The Causal Mechanism of Drought in Northwestern China over the Past Millennium
Investigator(s):Lee F
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:01/2013


Project Title:Climate change and internal disturbances in pre-industrial Europe
Investigator(s):Lee F
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund - General Award
Start Date:07/2013


Project Title:Climate change, population growth, and population cycles in historical agrarian China: The influence of spatial scale and regional geographic context
Investigator(s):Lee F
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


List of Research Outputs

Lee F., Climate-induced agricultural shrinkage and overpopulation in late imperial China, Climate Research. 2014, 59(3): 229-242.
Lee F. and Zhang D., Quantitative Analysis of Climate Change and Human Crises in History, In: M. Kwan, D. Richardson, D. Wang and C. Zhou (eds.), Space-time Integration in Geography and GIScience: Research Frontiers in the US and China. Dordrecht, Springer, 2014.
Pei Q., Zhang D., Lee F. and Li G., Climate Change and Macro-Economic Cycles in Pre-Industrial Europe, PLoS ONE. San Francisco, CA, PLoS ONE, 2014, 9: e88155.


Researcher : Lee FYS

Project Title:Towards Sustainable River Basin Governance in China: A Case Study of Dongjiang
Investigator(s):Lee FYS
Department:School of Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:01/2006


Project Title:Urban Water Management in Southern China: The Promises and Limitations of Water Services Bureaus
Investigator(s):Lee FYS
Department:School of Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:01/2007


Project Title:From "Property-led Redevelopment" to "Conservation-led Redevelopment"--An Application of the Advocacy Coalition Framework to explain the case of Historic Precinct Conservation in Guangzhou, China
Investigator(s):Lee FYS
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund - General Award
Start Date:09/2012


Project Title:The conservation of "Historically and Culturally Famous Towns" in China: Policies, Problems and Prospects
Investigator(s):Lee FYS
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2013


Project Title:The Conservation of Modern Heritage in Urban China: An Application of the “Implementation Gap” Conceptual Framework to Analyzing the Cases of Guangzhou and Shanghai
Investigator(s):Lee FYS
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:06/2014




Researcher : Leung MWH

Project Title:Charting transnationalism from the shop floor: A pilot study of small-to-medium-size migrant/ethnic entrepreneurship in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Leung MWH
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2008


Project Title:Collecting intellectual mileage: A study of transnational academic mobility of Hong Kong scholars
Investigator(s):Leung MWH
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2009


Project Title:Industrial heritage in Hong Kong: A Pilot Study
Investigator(s):Leung MWH
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:The Lord Wilson Heritage Trust - General Award
Start Date:06/2009




Researcher : Li J

Project Title:Climate change over the southeastern Tibetan Plateau and its influence on the Mekong River steamflow during the past eight centuries
Investigator(s):Li J
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund - General Award
Start Date:07/2013


Project Title:Hydroclimatic change over the eastern Tibetan Plateau during the past seven centuries
Investigator(s):Li J
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:12/2013


Project Title:9th International Conference on Dendrochronology ; El Nino phases and modes embedded in Asian and North American drought reconstructions
Investigator(s):Li J
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:01/2014
Completion Date:01/2014


List of Research Outputs

Fang K., Frank D., Gou X., Liu C., Zhou F., Li J. and Li Y., Precipitation Over The Past Four Centuries In The Dieshan Mountains As Inferred From Tree Rings: An Introduction To An Hht-based Method, Global and Planetary Change. 2013, 107: 109-118.
Li J., Xie S.-.P., Cook E.R., Morales M.S., Christie D., Johnson N., Chen F., D'Arrigo R., Fowler A. and Gou X., El Niño Modulations Over The Past Seven Centuries, Nature Climate Change. Nature Publishing Group, 2013, 3: 822-826.
Li J., Xie S. and Cook E., El Niño phases embedded in Asian and North American drought reconstructions, Quaternary Science Reviews. Elsevier, 2014, 85: 20-34.
Shi J., Cook E., Li J. and Lu H., Unprecedented January–july Warming Recorded In A 178-year Tree-ring Width Chronology In The Dabie Mountains, Southeastern China, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2013, 381-382: 92-97.


Researcher : Li Y

Project Title:Nation-state Involvement in Heritage Tourism: A Study of Red Tourism in China
Investigator(s):Li Y
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund - General Award
Start Date:09/2011


Project Title:Effects of World Heritage Inscription on Hakka Vernacular Tourism
Investigator(s):Li Y
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund - General Award
Start Date:10/2012


Project Title:Festival Tourism and Place Identity of Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Li Y
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund - General Award
Start Date:09/2013




Researcher : Lin GCS

Project Title:Economic Restructuring and Uneven Regional Development in Guangdong Province, 2001-2010
Investigator(s):Lin GCS, Hu Z
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2012
Completion Date:04/2014


Project Title:Chinas Urbanization in Question: Mega Events, Overdrawn Capital, and Uneven Urban Transformation in the Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou City-Regions
Investigator(s):Lin GCS
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:Why do we care about land grabbing in China?; Land, Power, and Finance: Political Economy of Land Grabbing in China's Metropolises
Investigator(s):Lin GCS
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2014
Completion Date:03/2014


List of Research Outputs

LIU T. and Lin G.C.S., New Geography of Land Commodification in Chinese Cities: Uneven Landscape of Urban Land Development Under Market Reforms and Globalization, Applied Geography. New York, Elsevier, 2014, 51(7): 118-130.
Lin G.C.S., Associate Editor, Eurasian Geography and Economics. 2013.
Lin G.C.S., Changing Theoretical Perspectives in Human Geography, International Workshop of China Social and Cultural Geography, 12-16 July 2013. Guangzhou, South China Normal University, 2013.
Lin G.C.S., China's Urbanization and Land Development Under Marketization and Globalization, Oriental Forum. Hangzhou, Zhejiang University, 2013.
Lin G.C.S., Decentering Geography and its New Challenges to Chinese Geographers, The 2013 Annual Conference of the Geographical Society of China (South China), 30 November - 2 December 2013. Guangzhou, Geographical Research Institute of Guangzhou, 2013.
Lin G.C.S., Editorial Board Member, Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 2013.
Lin G.C.S., Editorial Board Member, Asian Geographer. Hong Kong, Routledge, 2013.
Lin G.C.S., Editorial Board Member, Chinese Geographical Science. Beijing, Science Press & Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.
Lin G.C.S., Editorial Board Member, Eurasian Geography and Economics. New York, Routledge, 2013.
Lin G.C.S., Editorial Board Member, The Canadian Geographer. 2013.
Lin G.C.S., Editorial Board Member, Tropical Geography. Guangzhou, Geographical Society of Southern China, 2013.
Lin G.C.S., Editorial Board Member, Urban Geography. 2013.
Lin G.C.S., Editorial Board Member, World Regional Geography. Shanghai, East China Normal University, 2013.
Lin G.C.S. and Zhang A.Y.M., Emerging Space of Neoliberal Urbanism in China: Land, Urban Studies. London, UK, Routledge, 2014.
Lin G.C.S., Ideology, Explanation, and Knowledge Production in Critical Geographic Research, National Conference for Post-doctoral Fellows in Geography, 16-17 November 2013. Guangzhou, Sun Yat-sen University, 2013.
Lin G.C.S., Ideology, Knowledge Production, and Theory Building in Economic Geography, Shanghai, China, East China Normal University, 2014.
Lin G.C.S., Land, Power, and Finance: Political Economy of Land Grabbing in Urbanizing China, International Symposium: Why We Care About Land Grabbing in China?. Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, 2014.
Lin G.C.S., Li X., Yang F. and Hu Z., Strategizing Urbanism in the Era of Neoliberalization: Power Reshuffling, Land Development, and Municipal Finance in Urbanizing China, Urban Studies. London, UK, Routledge, 2014.
Lin G.C.S., Urbanization and Land Development in China Under Market Transition: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions, Dongguan, Guangdong, China, Xinhua College - Sun Yat-sen University, 2014.
Lin G.C.S., Urbanization and Land Development in China under Market Transition: Causes, Effects, and Solution, Tianjin, Tianjin Urban Construction University, 2013.
Sun Y., Zhou Y., Wei Y. .H. .D. and Lin G.C.S., Subcontracting and Supplier Innovativeness: Evidence from China's Information and Communication Technology Industry, Regional Studies. London, UK, Routledge, 2013, 47(10): 1766-1784.
WANG C. and Lin G.C.S., A Geography of Innovation in Isolation?: Knowledge Spillover, Technology Transfer and Innovation of Firms in China's Software Industry, In: Philip Cooke, Glen Searle and Kevin O'Connor, The Economic Geography of the IT Industry in the Asia Pacific Region. New York, Routledge, 2013, 202-218.


Researcher : Loo BPY

Project Title:Promoting Active Transportation for the Elderly: A Comparative Study of Three Asian Cities
Investigator(s):Loo BPY
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:NUS-Global Asia Institute NIHA Research Grant
Start Date:05/2012


Project Title:Revisiting the Three Ds in Transit-oriented Development (TOD): A People-centred and Placed-based Perspective
Investigator(s):Loo BPY
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2013


Project Title:World Conference on Transport Research; High-speed rail networks and economic integration in China and Europe
Investigator(s):Loo BPY
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2013
Completion Date:07/2013


List of Research Outputs

Cheng Y.S., Loo B.P.Y. and Vickerman R., High-speed rail networks and economic integration in China and Europe, Proceedings of the World Conference on Transportation Research, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 15-18, 2013.
Chow A.S.Y. and Loo B.P.Y., Connectivity of Higher Education within the Global City Network: Does Transport Network Play a Role?, Travel Behaviour & Society: 18th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (HKSTS), 14-16 December 2013.
LI L. and Loo B.P.Y., Alternative and Transitional Energy Sources for Urban Transportation, Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports. Springer, 2014, 1: 19-26.
LI L. and Loo B.P.Y., Benefit-cost Analysis of Airport Infrastructure within a Sustainability Framework: A Case Study of Hong Kong International Airport, Travel Behaviour and Society: The 18th International Conference of HKSTS, 14-16 December, 2013.
LI L. and Loo B.P.Y., The Interrelationship between Railway Development and Air Flight Patronage: Implications for Low Carbon Transport in China, Low-carbon Cities: Land Use and Transportation Interventions, Shaanxi Normal University and University of Minnesota, Xian, China, June 12-13 2014. . 2014.
Lam W.Y.W. and Loo B.P.Y., Determinants of Children’s Independent Mobility in Hong Kong, Towards a Harmonized Transportation Society: 10th International Conference of Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS), Taipei, Taiwan, September 9-12, 2013.. 2013.
Lam W.Y.W., Yao S. and Loo B.P.Y., Pedestrian exposure measures: A time-space framework, Travel Behaviour and Society . Elsevier, 2014, 1: 22-30.
Lam W.Y.W., Loo B.P.Y. and Yao S., Towards Exposure-based Time-space Pedestrian Crash Analysis in Facing the Challenges of Ageing Societies in Asia, Asian Geographer. 2013, Online First.
Lam W.Y.W. and Loo B.P.Y., Travel Behaviour & Society: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (HKSTS), 14-16 December 2013. 2013.
Loo B.P.Y. and Lam W.Y.W., A multilevel investigation of differential individual mobility of working couples with children: a case study of Hong Kong, Transportmetrica A: Transport Science. Taylor & Francis, 2013, 9: 629-652.
Loo B.P.Y., Associate Editor (since 01/2013), Member of Editorial Board (since 07/2009), Journal of Transport Geography. ELSEVIER, 2013.
Loo B.P.Y., LI L., Psaraki V. and Pagoni I., CO2 emissions associated with hubbing activities in air transport: An international comparison , Journal of Transport Geography . Elsevier, 2014, 34: 185-193.
Loo B.P.Y., Editor-in-Chief, Travel Behaviour and Society. Elsevier, 2014.
Loo B.P.Y., Editorial Board, Injury Epidemiology. Springer, 2014.
Loo B.P.Y., Member of Editorial Board (01/2008 - 12/2010), Transportation. Dordrecht, Springer, 2014.
Loo B.P.Y., Member of Editorial Board (01/2008 - now), International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics. Inderscience Publishers, 2014.
Loo B.P.Y., Member of Editorial Board (07/2007 - now), The Open Transportation Journal. Bentham, 2014.
Loo B.P.Y., Member of Editorial Board (07/2009 - 12/2013), Journal of Transport Geography. ELSEVIER, 2013.
Loo B.P.Y., Member of Editorial Board (12/2007 - now), The Open Urban Studies Journal. Bentham, 2014.
Loo B.P.Y., Member of Editorial Board, Asian Geographer. Routledge, 2014.
Loo B.P.Y., Member of Editorial Board, Injury Epidemiology. SpringerOpen, 2013.
Loo B.P.Y., Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Transport and Land Use. University of Minnesota, 2014.
Loo B.P.Y., Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Urban Technology. Routledge, 2014.
Loo B.P.Y., Member, Editorial Board, Asian Transport Studies. EASTS, 2014.
Loo B.P.Y., Planning Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities for Chinese Cities, Nanjing University, Department of Urban Planning. 2014.
Loo B.P.Y., Rethinking Sustainable Mobility Strategies in China, Sao Carlos School of Engineering, University of Sao Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 22 2014.. 2014.
Loo B.P.Y., Smart City= Low-carbon City= Happy City?, Symposium of Space-time Behavior and Smart City & The 9th Conference on Spatial Behavior and Planning, Nanjing University, January 4-5 2014. 2014.
Loo B.P.Y., Sustainability Research: Challenges and Opportunities for Us to Work Together , Department of Transport and Logistics Engineering, School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, April 15 2014.. 2014.
Loo B.P.Y., Sustainable Mobilities in China, Transport Studies Unit, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, March 12 2014.. 2014.
Loo B.P.Y., Sustainable Mobility in Low-carbon Cities , Low-carbon Cities: Land Use and Transportation Interventions, Shaanxi Normal University and Univeristy of Minnesota, Xian, China, June 12-13 2014.. 2014.
Loo B.P.Y., The University of Oxford Fellowship 2013, The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) Titular Fellowships. 2013.
Loo B.P.Y. and Yao S., The identification of traffic crash hot zones under the link-attribute and event-based approaches in a network-constrained environment, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. Elsevier, 2013, 41: 249-261.
Loo B.P.Y., Towards an Intermodal Freight Transport System in Global Cities , International Forum on Shipping, Ports and Airports (IFSPA) 2014: Sustainable Development in Shipping and Transport Logistics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, May 19-21 2014.. 2014.
Loo B.P.Y., Understanding and Planning for Sustainable Mobilities in Developing Countries: Lessons from China and Beyond , Centro de Desarrollo Urbano Sustentable (CEDEUS), Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (PUC), Santiago, Chile, April 16 2014.. 2014.
NICHOLS S.L. and Loo B.P.Y., Sustainable Transport in Hong Kong: Reshuffling the Transport Hierarchy Based on Geographical and Trip Characteristics, A Case Study of Shatin, In: Winnie W.Y. Lam and Becky P.Y. Loo, Travel Behaviour & Society: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (HKSTS), 14-16 December 2013 (Hong Kong: HKSTS). 2013, 539-546.
Ni J.M.C. and Loo B.P.Y., Response to Future Mega Infrastructures in Pearl River Delta: A Case Study of Macau, In: Winnie W.Y. Lam and Becky P.Y. Loo, Travel Behaviour & Society: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (HKSTS), 14-16 December 2013 (Hong Kong: HKSTS). 2013, 229-236.
Schepers P., Agerholm N., Amoros E., Benington R., Bjornskau T., Dhondt S., Geus B., Hegemeister C., Loo B.P.Y. and Niska A., The Frequency of Single-bicycle Crashes (SBCs) in Countries with Varying Bicycle Modal Shares, International Cycling Safety Conference (ICSC) 2013, Helmond, The Netherlands, 20–21 November, 2013.. 2013.
WU Y. and Loo B.P.Y., Effects of Helmet Law Enforcement on Helmet Use: A Case Study in Maoming, China, In: Winnie W.Y. Lam and Becky P.Y. Loo, Travel Behaviour & Society: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (HKSTS), 14-16 December 2013 (Hong Kong: HKSTS). 2013, 399-406.


Researcher : Mak ASH

List of Research Outputs

Lai P.C. and Mak A.S.H., Resource Package on the Use of Geographic Information System (GIS) in Geography Lessons, Vol. 1. Education Bureau, 2013, 1.


Researcher : NICHOLS SL

List of Research Outputs

NICHOLS S.L. and Loo B.P.Y., Sustainable Transport in Hong Kong: Reshuffling the Transport Hierarchy Based on Geographical and Trip Characteristics, A Case Study of Shatin, In: Winnie W.Y. Lam and Becky P.Y. Loo, Travel Behaviour & Society: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (HKSTS), 14-16 December 2013 (Hong Kong: HKSTS). 2013, 539-546.


Researcher : Ng CN

Project Title:"One River, Two Systems": issues of spatial integration and environmental management in the Shenzhen River Catchment
Investigator(s):Ng CN, Lee FYS
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2012


Project Title:34th Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment; A Review of the SEA Process in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Ng CN
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2014


Project Title:Trust in Food: An Investigation of Public Perception of Food Safety, Food Networks and Regulatory Institutions in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Ng CN
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:06/2014


List of Research Outputs

Ng C.N., XIE Y. and Yu X., Integrating Landscape Connectivity into the Evaluation of Ecosystem Services for Biodiversity Conservation and its Implications for Landscape Planning, Journal of Applied Geography. Elsevier, 2013, 42: 1-12.
Ng C.N., WANG Y. and Zhao T., Joint Effects of Asymmetric Payoff and Reciprocity Mechanisms on Collective Cooperation in Water Sharing Interactions: A Game Theoretic Perspective, PLoS ONE. United States, Public Library Science, 2013, 8: 1-11.


Researcher : Peart MR

Project Title:Natural organic matter and its spatial and temporal variation in a small basin in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Peart MR
Department:School of Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Low Budget High Impact Programme
Start Date:07/1998


Project Title:Sediment source determination in the East River, China
Investigator(s):Peart MR, Aydin NS, Fok L
Department:School of Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:03/2007


Project Title:Visiting Research Professors Scheme 2009-10
Investigator(s):Peart MR
Department:School of Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Visiting Research Professors Scheme
Start Date:09/2009


Project Title:Sediment quality in a Hong Kong river
Investigator(s):Peart MR
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund - General Award
Start Date:07/2011


List of Research Outputs

Xu Q., Chen J., Sun L. and Peart M.R., Field survey and numerical modeling of hillslope hydrological processes over a headwater catchment in Hong Kong, The 35th IAHR World Congress. 2013, 8.
Xu Q., Chen J., Sun L. and Peart M.R., Observation and analysis hydrological processes in a headwater catchment in Hong Kong, China, The 35th IAHR World Congress. 2013, 8.
Xu Q., Chen J. and Peart M.R., The study of abnormal throughfall: A field experiment in Hong Kong, The 11th China Water Forum. 2013.


Researcher : Pei Q

List of Research Outputs

Pei Q., Zhang D., Lee F. and Li G., Climate Change and Macro-Economic Cycles in Pre-Industrial Europe, PLoS ONE. San Francisco, CA, PLoS ONE, 2014, 9: e88155.


Researcher : Tao TCH

Project Title:Participatory development in community-based tourism: Case studies from Hong Kong and mainland China
Investigator(s):Tao TCH
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund - General Award
Start Date:07/2011


Project Title:Profiling and comparing ecotourists in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
Investigator(s):Tao TCH
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2012
Completion Date:08/2013


List of Research Outputs

Cheung T.O.L., Cheung T.T.M. and Tao T.C.H., From a hiking sharing website to be a real business: a success story of Hong Kong ecotourism operator, Journal of Ecotourism. 2013, 12: 221-225.


Researcher : WANG C

List of Research Outputs

WANG C. and Lin G.C.S., A Geography of Innovation in Isolation?: Knowledge Spillover, Technology Transfer and Innovation of Firms in China's Software Industry, In: Philip Cooke, Glen Searle and Kevin O'Connor, The Economic Geography of the IT Industry in the Asia Pacific Region. New York, Routledge, 2013, 202-218.


Researcher : WANG Y

List of Research Outputs

Ng C.N., WANG Y. and Zhao T., Joint Effects of Asymmetric Payoff and Reciprocity Mechanisms on Collective Cooperation in Water Sharing Interactions: A Game Theoretic Perspective, PLoS ONE. United States, Public Library Science, 2013, 8: 1-11.


Researcher : WONG KL

List of Research Outputs

WONG K.L. and Jim C.Y., Quantitative Hydrologic Performance of Extensive Green Roof under Humid-tropical Rainfall Regime, Ecological Engineering. Amsterdam, Elsevier Science, 2014, 70: 366-378.


Researcher : WONG PPY

List of Research Outputs

WONG P.P.Y., Lai P.C. and Hart M., Microclimate variations of Urban Heat Island effects in Hong Kong, CS04-7 Climatology – Urban Climate (3), IGU 2013 Kyoto Regional Conference, Held in Kyoto, Japan on 4-9 August 2013.
WONG P.P.Y., Lai P.C. and Hart M., Thermal effects and marathon runners - A symbiotic relationship, Poster presentation, A37, IGU 2013 Kyoto Regional Conference, Held in Kyoto, Japan on 4-9 August 2013.


Researcher : WU Y

List of Research Outputs

WU Y. and Loo B.P.Y., Effects of Helmet Law Enforcement on Helmet Use: A Case Study in Maoming, China, In: Winnie W.Y. Lam and Becky P.Y. Loo, Travel Behaviour & Society: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (HKSTS), 14-16 December 2013 (Hong Kong: HKSTS). 2013, 399-406.


Researcher : Wang JJ

Project Title:8th Recent Advances in Retailing and Services Science Conference Rapid Relocation of Retail Business in a Fast Growing City: A Case Study of Shenzhen, China
Investigator(s):Wang JJ
Department:School of Geography
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2001


Project Title:98th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers Port Competition and Governance in China: A Case Study of Shanghai and Ningbo
Investigator(s):Wang JJ
Department:School of Geography
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2002


Project Title:Service differentiation as a strategy for regional ports integration: a case study of Pearl River Delta
Investigator(s):Wang JJ
Department:School of Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:11/2003


Project Title:IGU Conference 2006 The Spatial Jump of Terminals as a Competing Means for Being Global: The Development Dilemma in Coastal China
Investigator(s):Wang JJ
Department:School of Geography
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2006


Project Title:Transforming Hong Kong's Ocean Container Transport Logistics Network
Investigator(s):Wang JJ
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Theme-based Research Scheme
Start Date:11/2011


Project Title:Regional Conference of Interional Geographical Union 2013 Kyoto; "Spatial Impacts of High-Speed Railways in China: a Total-Travel-Time Approach"
Investigator(s):Wang JJ
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2013
Completion Date:08/2013


List of Research Outputs

Wang J.J., Xu J. and He J., Spatial impacts of high-speed railways in China: a total-travel-time approach, Environment and Planning A. 2013, 45: 2261-2280.


Researcher : Wong PYP

List of Research Outputs

Wong P.Y.P., Hart M.A. and Lai P.C., Microclimate variations between semienclosed and open sections of a marathon route, Advances in Meteorology. US, Hindawi, 2013.


Researcher : Wong WSD

Project Title:A Comparative Spatiotemporal Analysis of Population Dynamics: An initial study of Hong Kong and Shanghai
Investigator(s):Wong WSD
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:03/2014


Project Title:Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Enabling the Use of Data Quality Information in American Community Survey (ACS) Data for Geographical Applications: A Summary of Research Progress/Using spatial aggregation to reduce sampling error/The Social Spatial Restructure of Shanghai Center City from 2000 to 2010: comparative factorial analysis
Investigator(s):Wong WSD
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2014
Completion Date:04/2014


List of Research Outputs

Li J. and Wong W.S.D., STModelViz: A 3D spatiotemporal GIS using a constraint-based approach, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 2014, 45: 34-49.


Researcher : XIE Y

List of Research Outputs

Ng C.N., XIE Y. and Yu X., Integrating Landscape Connectivity into the Evaluation of Ecosystem Services for Biodiversity Conservation and its Implications for Landscape Planning, Journal of Applied Geography. Elsevier, 2013, 42: 1-12.


Researcher : Yao S

List of Research Outputs

Lam W.Y.W., Yao S. and Loo B.P.Y., Pedestrian exposure measures: A time-space framework, Travel Behaviour and Society . Elsevier, 2014, 1: 22-30.
Lam W.Y.W., Loo B.P.Y. and Yao S., Towards Exposure-based Time-space Pedestrian Crash Analysis in Facing the Challenges of Ageing Societies in Asia, Asian Geographer. 2013, Online First.
Loo B.P.Y. and Yao S., The identification of traffic crash hot zones under the link-attribute and event-based approaches in a network-constrained environment, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. Elsevier, 2013, 41: 249-261.


Researcher : Zhang AH

Project Title:1st Congress of the Society for Urban Ecology; Species composition and tree risk assessment of old-valuable trees in urban Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Zhang AH
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2013
Completion Date:07/2013


List of Research Outputs

Jim C.Y. and Zhang A.H., Defect-disorder and Risk Assessment of Heritage Trees in Urban Hong Kong, Urban Forestry and Urban Greening. Amsterdam, Elsevier Science, 2013, 12: 585-596.
Jim C.Y. and Zhang A.H., Species Composition and Tree Risk Assessment of Old-valuable Trees in Urban Hong Kong, 1st Congress of the Society for Urban Ecology, 25-27 July 2013. Berlin, Germany.
Zhang A.H. and Jim C.Y., Contributions of Landscape Trees in Public Housing Estates to Urban Biodiversity in Hong Kong, Urban Forestry and Urban Greening. Amsterdam, Elsevier Science, 2014, 13: 272-284.
Zhang A.H. and Jim C.Y., Species Adoption for Sustainable Forestry in Hong Kong's Degraded Countryside, International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology. Taylor and Francis, 2013, 20: 484-503.


Researcher : Zhang D

Project Title:Travertine (tufa) deposit at waterfall sites: a field study on hydraulic changes and associated hydrochemical evolution in the Chinese and Jamaican karst rivers
Investigator(s):Zhang D
Department:School of Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Low Budget High Impact Programme
Start Date:11/2001


Project Title:Research Output Prize
Investigator(s):Zhang D, Lee F
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:10/2008


Project Title:Long-term Climate Change and the Seventeenth-Century General Crisis in Europe
Investigator(s):Zhang D
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2009


Project Title:The temporal consistency of climate-war association in Europe
Investigator(s):Zhang D
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund - General Award
Start Date:08/2011


Project Title:Wavelet analysis of the time-series of climate change and social crises in history
Investigator(s):Zhang D
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme
Start Date:01/2013
Completion Date:12/2013


Project Title:Research Output Prize (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Investigator(s):Zhang D
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:01/2013


List of Research Outputs

Du S., Li B., Li Z., Chen M., Xiang R., Zhang D., Niu D. and Zhang L., Rapid Changes in the East Asian Monsoon During the Last Interglacial in the Bohai Sea Coastal Zone, China, Journal of Sedimentary Research. Society of Sedimentary Geology, 2014, 84(2): 88-96.
Fei J., Lai Z.P., Zhang D. and He H., Extreme Sea Ice Events in the Chinese Marginal Seas During the Past 2000 Years, Climate Research. Amelinghausen: Inter-Research, 2013.
Lee F. and Zhang D., Quantitative Analysis of Climate Change and Human Crises in History, In: M. Kwan, D. Richardson, D. Wang and C. Zhou (eds.), Space-time Integration in Geography and GIScience: Research Frontiers in the US and China. Dordrecht, Springer, 2014.
Pei Q., Zhang D., Lee F. and Li G., Climate Change and Macro-Economic Cycles in Pre-Industrial Europe, PLoS ONE. San Francisco, CA, PLoS ONE, 2014, 9: e88155.
Yuejun S.L.B., Zhang D., Fengnian W., Xiaohao W. and Yi Y., Climate Fluctuation Record from China's Salawusu River Valley During the Early Last Glacial, Geochemistry International. Springer, 2013, 51(3): 240-248.


Researcher : Zhao SX

Project Title:International joint center China's globalization and spatial transformation studies
Investigator(s):Zhao SX
Department:School of Geography
Source(s) of Funding:The University of Hong Kong Foundation Seed Grant
Start Date:04/2002


Project Title:Contesting the Status of the World’s Factory for Manufacturing: A Comparative Study of FDI and Trade in China, India, and Vietnam
Investigator(s):Zhao SX
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2012


Project Title:Economic Transformations and Changes of Hong Kong’s Industrial Structure under the One Country, Two Systems Framework
Investigator(s):Zhao SX
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund - General Award
Start Date:08/2012


Project Title:The Rise of China and the Development of Financial Centers among Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen
Investigator(s):Zhao SX
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2013


List of Research Outputs

Arner D.W., Donald D., Goo S.H., Hu W.R., Lin C., Michael B.E., Song F.M., Tong W., Xu C., Wojcik D. and Zhao S.X., Assessing Hong Kong as an International Financial Centre, First Report of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council Theme-based Research Scheme Project: Enhancing Hong Kong’s Future as a Leading International Financial Centre (Apr. 2014) (209 pages) (available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2427609), Hong kong, 2014, 209.
Zhao S.X. and Song F.M., Strategic Development Planning for Zhuhai – Hengqin: Financial Industry and Financial Sub-centre Development , Invited presentation for Zhuhai-Hengqin Municipal Government. 2013.
Zhao S.X., LAO Q. and Chan Y.M., The Rise of China and Development of Financial Centres in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, In: Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev, Victor de Munck, James Sheffield , Journal of Globalization Studies. Uchitel Publishing House, 2013, 4:1: 32-62.


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