Kris Hartley

Kris Hartley

Assistant Professor | Arizona State University | School of Sustainability

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Lectures and media engagements February 13, 2020

Presentation at Tenth UN World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi

Dr Kris Hartley, assistant professor at the Department of Asian and Policy Studies, delivered a presentation titled “Global Goals, Global Cities: Achieving the SDGs through Collective Local Action” at the United Nations Tenth World Urban…


Research publications January 27, 2020

Policies for a circular economy (Resources, Conservation & Recycling)

The circular economy is a much discussed pathway towards sustainability. While some scholarly work has been carried out on barriers towards a circular economy, there are relatively few academic studies on policies that may accelerate…


Research publications December 20, 2019

“The Politics and Policies of Regional Water Management in Southern China” (Palgrave Macmillan)

China’s Pearl River Delta region has a political and geographic setting that presents coordination challenges in the management of environmental resources, including water. Understanding these dynamics can provide lessons for policy interventions in similarly situated…


Research publications December 17, 2019

Governing Cities: Asia’s Urban Transformation (Routledge Press)

This book presents the latest research on three issues of crucial importance to Asian cities: governance, liveability, and sustainability. Together, these issues canvass the salient trends defining Asian urbanization and are explored through an eclectic…


Sole-authored media December 10, 2019

Technocracy: a solution or a problem of its own? (Policy Forum)

Old ways of thinking about and making policy were built for a different era. Do we continue down this road, hoping that doing the same things again and again, only ‘better’ this time, will push…


Co-authored media November 29, 2019

The pitfalls of measuring economic growth using GDP (Channel NewsAsia)

GDP is an imperfect metric, but it continues to be used as a benchmark for national performance and policymaking in an era of social, economic, and environmental disruption. Ultimately, the difficult work of understanding and…


Lectures and media engagements November 5, 2019

Quoted in China Daily “Taxing times as Asia gets tough on sugar”

An unhealthy population “presents a fiscal time-bomb for many countries”, said Kris Hartley, assistant professor with the Department of Asian and Policy Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong. Hartley said the increased incidence…


Sole-authored media October 24, 2019

Energy to Synergy in Resource-Dependent Cities (New Geography)

Resource boomtowns are unique policy laboratories that have the resources to experiment with innovative development initiatives and, if embracing an opportunistic planning vision, have the chance to remake themselves using the proceeds of their fleeting…


Sole-authored media October 1, 2019

Fourth Industrial Revolution and Sustainable Development (Fair Observer)

Technology is neither a substitute for good governance nor a solution to bad. It will succeed only to the extent that governments commit to institutional reform and consider sustainable growth more of an existential imperative…


Sole-authored media September 28, 2019

Cities and the Sustainable Development Goals (Policy Forum)

While the SDGs were designed largely with national-level policies in mind, cities are playing an increasing role by incorporating SDG goals into urban plans. This policy process, often referred to as SDG localisation, raises new opportunities…


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