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…
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…
The United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide “a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet.” While the goals were designed to provide a…
This article examines the dynamics of public acceptance for potable water reuse. The article’s theoretical contribution is a formal mathematical model for understanding public acceptance of water reuse. The model conceptualizes how governments, water utilities…
