The turn of the decade is seeing substantial efforts to reduce plastic pollution across Southeast Asia. Around the world, trillions of plastic bags are used each year with troublesome impacts on living conditions and waste infrastructure. In Thailand, a ban on…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
