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…
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,…
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….
The effectiveness of governments in addressing the Covid-19 pandemic has been analyzed through numerous perspectives, including state authority, capacity, and legitimacy. In Hong Kong, incumbent political tensions and lack of trust in government potentially weakened…
Policy learning is a common driver of reform in public organisations and relies in part on institutional legitimacy. For law enforcement, institutional legitimacy is particularly salient given the police’s monopoly on the legal use of…
The circular economy is a resource-efficient production model that is believed by many policymakers, business leaders, and academics to promote sustainability. Academic literature suggests that circularity is achievable across business scales and types, from multinational…
One decade after China’s announcement of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), theoretical and practical debates linger about the environmental impacts. However, no studies have systematically analyzed how academic research conceptualizes BRI and sustainability within…
The smart city concept is an increasingly popular urban policy framework, and recent advances in technologies like artificial intelligence are poised to shape this trend in unprecedented ways. As public sector investment in technology accelerates,…
A survey of Hong Kong residents finds that public support for government technology, as understood through the concept of smart cities, is associated with concept-awareness and official communications. The statistical analysis identifies moderating effects attributable…
Climate change, water scarcity and pollution, and growing water demand across all sectors are stressing existing water supply systems, highlighting the need for alternative water supply (AWS) systems. AWS systems are those that have not…
