This lecture examines the socio-political dynamics behind the ‘smart cities’ policy project and technocracy more generally. It begins with an overview of common practices and policy narratives concerning smart cities, focusing on Hong Kong. The…
A growing body of scholarship has examined circular business models as a pathway towards sustainability. However, employee skills to support such business models have been largely overlooked. Addressing this research gap, this article proposes a…
In the past decade, use of the circular economy (CE) concept by scholars and practitioners has grown steadily. In a 2017 article, Kirchherr et al. found that the CE concept is interpreted and implemented in a…
The pathway to integrated smartness on Hong Kong’s roads could be long and costly. Our public transit system is arguably among the best in the world. How much better do we need it to work?…
The concept of ‘sustainability missions’ has recently received increasing attention in the academic literature. Broadly defined as a collective ambition to strengthen systemic preparedness and adaptive capacity for various policy challenges, the concept of sustainability…
https://nusgs.nus.edu.sg/kris-hartley/ In retrospect, would you still have chosen to do a PhD? Why? Given the level of commitment needed to complete a PhD, it is essential to have a clear vision for how the degree…
This study analyzes public perceptions about the impact of ‘smart cities’ programs on governance and quality-of-life. With smart city scholarship focusing primarily on technical and managerial issues, political legitimacy remains relatively underexplored—particularly in non-Western contexts….
Government efforts to confront complex crises, such as climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic, have elicited populist antipathy toward scientific and technical input in policymaking. These affronts to expertise and knowledge institutions have congealed into…
This chapter examines how the issue of trust is reflected in the longstanding pragmatic perspective of the policy sciences and how it offers a pathway by which to ‘politicize’ understandings of policy capacity (including that…
Policy models based on ‘big data’ and other ‘smart’ systems, including those for circular economy (CE) transition, are proliferating as technology enables deeper monitoring and analysis. At the same time, policymaking is occurring in increasingly…
