Message from Kris Hartley, Program Leader of the Bachelor of Social Sciences in Policy Science and Management, The Education University of Hong Kong, Department of Asian and Policy Studies. In my frequent travels around the…
Welcome to the Bachelor of Social Sciences in Policy Science and Management. We appreciate your interest in our program. I think we can all agree that these are important times in the field of…
EVFTA provides a platform for Vietnam to continue helping domestic firms penetrate the EU market. The Agreement aligns Vietnamese firms with European standards on sourcing and production, potentially lifting product quality and reliability as Vietnam…
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…
