Kris Hartley

Kris Hartley

Assistant Professor | Arizona State University | School of Sustainability

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Co-authored media November 26, 2025

Circular Economy and Global Economic Retrenchment (Observer Research Foundation)

Governments should more systematically integrate concerns about waste management and resource flows into their trade strategies, not only for sustainability but also for economic opportunity or necessity. This effort begins with quantifying the potential economic…

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Research publications November 7, 2025

Social challenges in smart cities: a scoping review and framework for policy action (Technology in Society)

The growing role of advanced technologies in urban life, often in the context of policy initiatives like ‘smart cities,’ is leading to social change that calls for policy attention and scholarly analysis. The academic literature…


Sole-authored media October 7, 2025

Lessons in AI Trust From Hong Kong’s LeaveHomeSafe Mobile App (The Diplomat)

While the Hong Kong government has the capacity to quickly roll out and enforce a program like LeaveHomeSafe, technological sophistication alone is not sufficient for fostering public trust and support for policy agendas. The app…


Research publications September 25, 2025

Public policy for sustainability in Asia (Handbook of Public Policy in Asia)

Policymakers and researchers have endeavored to conceive of new ways of thinking about sustainability, and recent experiences in Asian countries offer new lessons. This chapter examines challenges and constraints regarding sustainability policymaking, with a focus…


Sole-authored media September 25, 2025

Policymakers tread the swirling waters of AI innovation (Arizona Technology Council)

Arizona’s AV regulatory experience highlights broader trends in politics and governance. Assertion of place-based political identities, reflecting a growing urban-rural political divide, may complicate statewide regulatory harmonization around the country. In general, pro-innovation ideas can…


Research publications September 24, 2025

The impact of social media, ‘fake news,’ and disinformation on policy advice (Handbook of Policy Advice)

A convergence of existential crises – climate change, geopolitical instability, and socio-economic inequality, among others – has tested the policymaking capacities of governments at all scales. While definitions of and solutions to complex or ‘wicked’…


Research publications September 10, 2025

Through the water glass darkly: global cities as problematic exemplars in the sustainability discourse (International Journal of Water Resources Development)

Urban water management practices are standardized through narratives informed primarily by the experiences of global cities. While these cities have resources and influence, their persistent economic and environmental challenges point to epistemic faults in technocratic…


Research publications July 3, 2025

Is circular economy a failing sustainability paradigm? Not necessarily (Journal of Industrial Ecology)

Sluggish progress on circular economy (CE) implementation is raising some concern that this allegedly new paradigm for sustainability is failing. While initial optimism had anticipated faster progress, actors across the private sector, government, consumer markets,…


Research publications May 29, 2025

Strengthening governance accountability in smart cities (chapter, Routledge Press)

Global climate change is having increasingly localized impacts, forcing city governments to manage unprecedented threats to livelihoods and survival that can overwhelm state capacity. Continued reliance on fossil fuels for energy production hastens this crisis….


Lectures and media engagements May 19, 2025

Piano concert featuring Mozart, Schubert, Rachmaninoff (Trinity Terrace, Fort Worth, Texas)

 TRINITY TERRACE  presents  Kris Hartley, pianist   The Longhorn Room 1600 Texas St, Fort Worth, TX Thursday, May 22, 2025 4:00 pm   Edvard Grieg                     Nocturne in C major, Op. 54, No. 4 (1843–1907)  Franz…


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