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Departmental Seminars

Departmental seminars are usually held weekly during the two semesters and irregularly during the summer and winter breaks. Please click the links below and see the seminar posters.

2025

Spatial-temporal dynamics of climate resilience

24/09/2025

Introduction to Ecosystem Service Valuation: Theories, Applications, Challenges, and Future Directions

19/09/2025

Leveraging Geospatial Big Data and GeoAI for Healthy Cities

18/09/2025

Assessing the Benefits of Environmental Policies in China

11/09/2025

The Ricardian method redux: climate impacts on rural cultivation incomes and livelihood diversity in coastal Bangladesh

10/09/2025

AI-Driven Hybrid Framework for Enhanced Assessment of Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Large-Scale Urban Environments

04/09/2025

Private Sector Financing of Marine and Forest Conservation

17/04/2025

Climate-driven Global Cropland Changes and Consequent Feedback

10/04/2025

Urban Governance under the Influence of Digital Technologies: From Public Behavior to Government Decision-Making

03/04/2025

Regional Innovation and Smart Specialization Policy in the European Union

01/04/2025

Intellectual Migration: Skilled migrants between China/India and North America

20/03/2025

Age-friendly Neighborhood Environment, Health and Well-being Among Older Adults in China: Evidence from Longitudinal Studies

17/03/2025

Reshaping state-finance-tech nexus through central bank digital currency: The case of mBridge in Hong Kong

13/03/2025

A Spatial Big Data Approach to Understanding Neighborhood Change and Neighbor Problems

28/02/2025

Contested Geopolitics of Distribution in the City-region-building: Promoting Enclave Industrial Parks in the Pearl River Delta, China

27/02/2025

Method in Relational-Explanatory Geography

20/02/2025

Envisioning Risk-Resilience-Sustainability Nexus under Climatic & Environmental Changes: Leveraging Earth Observation Data, Integrated Geospatial Tools, GeoAI and Machine Learning

19/02/2025

Impacts of Climate Change on Terrestrial Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles

13/02/2025

Dialogues in Human Geography: Future Opportunities and Challenges for Research

06/02/2025

Theory and Explanation in Geography

23/01/2025

Assessment of Methane Emissions from Shale Gas Production in China

16/01/2025

Shared Mobility and Built Environment

09/01/2025

2024

Terrestrial Ecosystems in the Fight Against Climate Change

28/11/2024

Zhong Shan Da Xue Ji Di’s 2024 Arctic Voyage: A Journey of Observation and Exploration

21/11/2024

Which Chinese Cities Are Overbuilt? Insights from Urban Complexity Science

14/11/2024

Soil Moisture Impacts on Land Carbon Cycle: Learning from Observations and Models

07/11/2024

Advancing Urban Environment, Exposure and Equality (U3E) Research with Geospatial Data and Analytics

31/10/2024

Trapping Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia): Community Participation in Monitoring and Conservation in Lapchi Valley

24/10/2024

Global China in flow restructures: Networks, assembled positionalities and the China-invested Special Economic Zone development in Cambodia

17/10/2024

Understanding Transit Users’ Perception and Travel Satisfaction by Social Media Mining

10/10/2024

The 4,000-year-old farmer’s dilemma: Five unhealthy arable land use phenomena in China

04/10/2024

Computational social science approaches to address public health challenges

26/09/2024

Reimagining Cities in the AI Era: A Data-Driven, Sustainable Blueprint for the Information Revolution

19/09/2024

Human Mobility Science

12/09/2024

Understanding Hydroclimate Extremes across Spatial Scales

07/06/2024

High-speed rail and sustainable urban development in China

24/05/2024

Smart City or Utopian Mirage? Optimizing Urban Public Spaces for Evaluating Community Engagement and Sustainability in Songdo

20/05/2024

New Generation of Location-based Infrastructure for Smart City and Industrial Applications Based on Indoor Mapping, Positioning and Geospatial Intelligence

18/04/2024

Restoring urban waterways and community-led environmental governance. Lessons from Australia and South Korea

11/04/2024

Three-dimensional remote sensing of atmosphere and a risk-based air pollution management system

28/03/2024

Emissions of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds and their Contribution to Ozone Formation in the Subtropical Region, South China

21/03/2024

Agricultural Modernization and Diabolic Landscapes of Dispossession in Rural China

15/03/2024

Human health is closely linked to air pollution and climate change

14/03/2024

Taught field work in an undergraduate geography programme: from benchmarking to developing student research projects

07/03/2024

Green transitions in the blue economy: enabling sustainable coastal regional economic development

06/03/2024

Interlinked Low-Carbon Travel and Residential Behaviour: Energy, Climate, Social and Infrastructural Impacts

29/02/2024

Assessing the sustainability of socio-economic boundaries in China: a downscaled “safe and just space” framework

22/02/2024

More than H2O: Rethinking Chinese hydropolitics from a critical geographical perspective

19/02/2024

Conceptualising Urban Political Ecology in and Through Asian Urbanisms

01/02/2024

Urban climate responsibility in the Asia Pacific: discourses of climate justice

25/01/2024

Rescaling of the Land Regime in the Making of City-regions: A Case Study of China’s Pearl River Delta

18/01/2024

Indigenous development and more-than-capitalist economies in Southwest China

11/01/2024

The Equity and Sustainability Dilemma of Vehicle Ownership: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

04/01/2024

2023

The influences of remote anthropogenic aerosols on winter weather and monsoon climate over southern China

30/11/2023

Explore infinitive opportunities with Common Spatial Data Infrastructure (CSDI)

23/11/2023

Monitoring Tree Mortality During Drought using Multi-source Remote Sensing

16/11/2023

Optimizing Flood Governance System in the Context of Climate Extremes and Urbanization: Evidence from Three Recent Floods in North China

02/11/2023

Biogeophysical feedbacks in the Earth system

26/10/2023

Monitoring and Addressing Global Environmental Challenges with Earth Observations

25/10/2023

Emerging research frontiers in paleotempestology and paleoecology for the northern Gulf of Mexico coast

19/10/2023

Knowledge of Community Resilience to Natural Hazards Begins with its Measurement: The Resilience Inference Measurement (RIM) Model

12/10/2023

Solar energy projects put food security at risk

10/10/2023

Ten-year air quality changes in China and how we study it

05/10/2023

Enable deep learning to harvest Landsat’s half-century collection for land cover mapping

04/10/2023

From Pixels to Mesh: A Glimpse into Modern 2D and 3D GeoAI

28/09/2023

Beyond Situated Knowledges in Human Geography: “Theorizing Back” and Making (Southern) Theory Work

26/09/2023

High-resolution 3D Ecosystem Mapping from Lidar Satellites: Opportunities and Challenges

21/09/2023

Deep learning for large area land cover mapping using Landsat time series

14/09/2023

Geospatial Big Data Analytics for Accessible, Equitable and Healthy Cities

13/09/2023

Deep Learning from Volunteered Geographical Information and Heterogeneous Geospatial Data

12/09/2023

Biogeochemical cycling in coastal wetland soils under environmental change

07/09/2023

Entrepreneurship education and firm creation

17/08/2023

Bikesharing and equity: A nationwide study of bikesharing accessibility in the U.S.

16/08/2023

Spatial Justice in Ride-hailing: A Key Role of Affordability

14/08/2023

Geography of Religion and Migration in Sinophone Societies

11/08/2023

Advances and Challenges in Intelligent Interpretation of Remote Sensing

20/04/2023

Socially engaged municipal statecraft? The Shenzhen Biennale (UABB) as situated planning experiment

13/04/2023

Qualitative human geography today: what are we doing?

06/04/2023

From the perspective of local brand equity, how do citizens perceive green, creative and smart brand potential of future Hong Kong?

04/04/2023

Indigenous Resilience to Environmental Change: A Political Ecological Perspective

30/03/2023

China’s policies strengthen Hong Kong as Asia-Pacific’s premier financial centre

16/03/2023

Human Mobility Data for Urban Analytics

09/03/2023

Rethink about the mangrove conservation and restoration in Southern China: quality vs. quantity

02/03/2023

Understanding group travel behaviour from metro smart card data: A case study of Shanghai, China

23/02/2023

Solar cities for energy transition facilitated by GIScience with multi-sourced spatiotemporal big data

16/02/2023

Social exclusion and health among older people in China

09/02/2023

Health risk assessment on bisphenol A and pesticide exposures from environment

02/02/2023

Impacts of climate change on mountain hazards and infrastructure

20/01/2023

Sustainability of the Himalayan water tower under climate change: water resources, landscape degradation, and natural hazards

19/01/2023

People as sensors: mental health signals of the public towards COVID-19 at the regional, national and global level

17/01/2023

Human-centered Geospatial Data Science

16/01/2023

Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic using geospatial big data

05/01/2023

2022

Hydroclimatic extremes under climate change: Mechanisms, risks and impacts

20/12/2022

Small World AI- A Modular Metacognitive Digital Twin System for Greener Cities & Cleaner Mobility

01/12/2022

Equalizing the Spatial Accessibility of Emergency Medical Services in Shanghai: A Trade-off Perspective

17/11/2022

Exploring typhoid fever in Southeast Asia using geospatial context

03/11/2022

Salt marshes, mangroves and the climate crisis

27/10/2022

Mobility-based Geographies of Mental Health

20/10/2022

Frankenstein Urbanism

13/10/2022

Understanding social segregation – A new computational framework, and we find in both physical and social network spaces

06/10/2022

Spatial disparity and structural inequality in disability patterns across Tianjin municipality: a multiple deprivation perspective

29/09/2022

Some thoughts on synergizing remote sensing and social sensing toward urban land use mapping

22/09/2022

Geospatial co-location pattern mining for understanding spatiotemporal associations in smart cities: from global to regional, from static to mobile

15/09/2022

Geospatial Patterns and Trajectory in International Trade Networks

08/09/2022

GIScience in Extreme Wildfire Mitigation Through Targeted Fuels Treatment

03/05/2022

Carbon Stocks and Fluxes in an Evergreen Subtropical City: Variability, Sources, and Drivers

21/04/2022

The Rise of Education-Featured Gated Communities in Chinese Cities: (Re)producing the Enterprising Self via the Entrepreneurial Local State-Capital Nexus

14/04/2022

The Effects of New Mobility Services and Technology via the Latent-Class Framework

07/04/2022

The Regional Infrastructured State in Territorializing the Greater Bay Area in China Through the Cultural Facility Boom

29/03/2022

Climate Change, The Energy Transition And Why We’re Missing the Forest For The Trees

24/03/2022

Carbon Emissions and Economic Development in China

17/03/2022

New Town Development and Gentrification in Hong Kong: An Aspect from Rail Transit Development

10/03/2022

Planning the Post-COVID City

24/02/2022

Universities as Financing Vehicles of (Sub)urbanisation: The Development of University towns in Shanghai

17/02/2022

The Link Between Industrial Restructuring and Urban Development: Analysis of China’s Manufacturing Mergers and Acquisitions

10/02/2022

Wellbeing of Migrants and Older Adults in Chinese Cities

20/01/2022

Hot Spots vs. Harm Spots In Maritime Piracy

13/01/2022

Remote Sensing of Land Deformation and Early Warning of Geo-hazards for Sustainable Development

03/01/2022

2021

Urban Visual Intelligence: Perceiving Cities with AI and Street-Level Imagery

10/12/2021

Spatially Explicit Artificial Intelligence For Geographic Data Science

07/12/2021

Exploring Human-Environment Interactions For Sustainable City Development: A Geospatial Data Analytical Approach

02/12/2021

Exploring Source Contribution and Wet Deposition of Ambient Pollutants Over the Greater Bay Area

25/11/2021

Environmental Deprivation and Health Risk: Perspectives of Urban Resilience and Environmental Management

18/11/2021

Urban Indoor/Outdoor Air Quality and Refined Exposure Assessment: The Case of Hong Kong

11/11/2021

Understanding Gender Difference in Perceptions toward Transit Services acrossSpace and Time: A Social Media Mining Approach

10/11/2021

Exploring the Forces Behind the Development of Long-Term Apartment Rental Housing in China

28/10/2021

Life Between Buildings from a Street View Image: What Do Big Data Analytics Reveal about Neighbourhood Organisational Vitality?

21/10/2021

Politicising the Polycentric Urban Region: Bridge Connection Negotiations in the Pearl River Delta

07/10/2021

Governing Urban Infrastructures Under Pandemic Conditions: Some Thoughts

30/09/2021

Integration of Non-motorized Modes and Urban Transit: Determinants and Assessment on the Catchment Environment

23/09/2021

Urban Political Ecology and Environmental Justice of Informal E-waste Recycling in Guiyu, China

16/09/2021

Life After Resettlement in Urban China: State-led Community Building as a Reterritorialization Strategy

09/09/2021

Formation of City-regions from Bottom-up Initiatives: Investigating Coalitional Developmentalism in the Pearl River Delta

22/04/2021

Urban Entrepreneurialism and ‘Space of Innovation’: Evidence from Shenzhen, China

15/04/2021

The Performativity of the State in China’s Land Transformation

01/04/2021

Inequality in Housing Finance Utilization to Achieve Homeownership in Urban China

25/03/2021

Urban Sustainability Assessment and Learning from Best Practices

18/03/2021

The Role of Local Government and Green Entrepreneur in Latecomer Cities’ Sustainability Transitions: A Case of China’s Solar City

11/03/2021

Theorizing Nation-Building through Transport Infrastructure Development: The Case of a High-Speed Rail Line in Spain

04/03/2021

Livelihood Resilience Capacities in the Face of the Climate Crisis: Insights from Vietnam’s Mekong Delta and Coastal Taiwan

25/02/2021

Comparative Analysis of the University as a Real Estate Developer in East Asia

21/02/2021

Social Identity and Class Consciousness among Hong Kong Farmers

18/02/2021

Flood Risks Associated with Heavy Precipitation from Tropical Cyclones

04/02/2021

Local Policy Actors and Global Policies: Using Circulating Models for Coalition Building in Latin American Cities

28/01/2021

Public’s Acceptance Towards Violence and Vandalism in Transport Systems: The Role of Political Stance During a Social Movement

14/01/2021

2020

Post-fire Carbon Dynamics in the Tropical Peat Swamp Forests of SE Asia

03/12/2020

Car Dependence and Housing Affordability in Greater London: An Emerging Social Deprivation Issue?

26/11/2020

Clean Air at What Cost? The Rise of Blunt Force Regulation

12/11/2020

“3Es” in Urban Spatial Structure of Chinese Cities: Evaluation, Evolution and Effects

05/11/2020

The Emergence of a Build to Rent Model: The Role of Narratives

29/10/2020

Experiential Learning to Be Sustainable: Place-making upon Return Home from Greenway Experience

22/10/2020

Social and Environmental Responsibility among Inbound Tour Operations in Hong Kong, China

15/10/2020

Tourism and Natural Disaster Management Process: Perception of Tourism Stakeholders in the Case of Kumamoto Earthquake in Japan

14/10/2020

Stakeholder Collaboration as a Major Factor for Sustainable Ecotourism Development in Southern Ethiopia

07/10/2020

Perspectives on Epistemology of Energy System Optimization

24/09/2020

The Politics of Pixels: Laying the Building Blocks of Critical Remote Sensing

17/09/2020

Sustainable Urban Sprawl? The Ecologies of Land-Fragmentation in Chile’s Suburban Spaces

10/09/2020

How do university students in Hong Kong perceive the image of Greater Bay Area cities?

16/04/2020

Future cities? A morphogenetic code idea: Isobenefit Urbanism

09/04/2020

Moves along the Road: Climate change and farmers? northwesterly migration from central China

26/03/2020

Connecting the City: A Three-dimensional Pedestrian Network of Hong Kong

12/03/2020

Transit Access and the Post-Entry Performance of New Establishments: A Study in Hudson County, New Jersey

16/01/2020

Big Data Analytics in Geography: Crowd Dynamics in Protest and Beyond

09/01/2020

2019

Ma On Shan Iron Ore Mine: More Than an Industrial Heritage

16/12/2019

The Role of Car Ownership in Attitudes Towards Public Transport: A comparative study of Guangzhou and Brisbane

31/10/2019

Reluctant Policy Innovation through Profit Concession and Informality Tolerance: A Strategic Relational View of Policy Entrepreneurship in China’s Urban Redevelopment

24/10/2019

Aerosol Pollution in Asia and Its Interactions with Health and Climate

17/10/2019

Scalar Politics as Discursive Struggle: Lessons from China’s Urban Environmental Governance

03/10/2019

Hydrologic Controls on Riverine Export of Water, Sediment and Carbon in the Arid to Semiarid Wuding River on the Chinese Loess Plateau

19/09/2019

Spatio-temporal Dynamics of the Plague Outbreak in Historical Europe

12/09/2019

Urbanization and Climate Change Implications in Flood Risk Management: Multi-criteria Approach in Developing Flood Susceptibility Maps

11/07/2019

Challenges, Pitfalls and Opportunities in and for strategic (spatial?) planning

16/05/2019

A Comparative Study of Strategic Spatial Planning in Hong Kong, Singapore and Shenzhen

16/05/2019

Designing the tourist experience: A marketing perspective

29/04/2019

Externalities and Property Prices: an Evidence-based Practice and Big Data Analytics Approach

18/04/2019

What Are We Losing? The Significant roles of Hong Kong Corals under Global Warming

11/04/2019

Long-term Response and Feedback of Asian Terrestrial Ecosystems Carbon Cycle to Global Warming

09/04/2019

Impacts of Future Land Use and Land Cover Change on Mid-21st-Century Surface Ozone Air Quality: Distinguishing between the Biogeophysical and Biogeochemical Effects

04/04/2019

There is No Place Like Home: Taiwanese Married Women in Hong Kong

03/04/2019

Investigating Spatial Variability in Air Quality and Its Influential Urban Morphological Factors Using Land Use Regression Approach

28/03/2019

Yunnan and the Belt and Road Initiative

21/03/2019

Solar Photovoltaic Applications in Buildings for Power Generation

14/03/2019

China’s Pollution Haven Status: A Spatial & Industry – Based Analysis of Foreign Investment

07/03/2019

Characteristics of Hong Kong Extreme Hot Weather and Implications on the Heat-health Warning System

28/02/2019

Concentrated Rural Settlement Reconstruction after the Wenchuan Earthquake: Difference between Public Reports and Individuals’ Perceptions

14/02/2019

Environmental Impact Assessment as a Tool for Climate Change Mitigation

31/01/2019

Artificial Island: Wrong Way, Wrong Time, Wrong Place

24/01/2019

巴丹吉林沙漠風成沉積物現代地表過程與古環境指示意義

17/01/2019

Water Quality Simulation and Prediction Technology in the Management of Aquatic Environment of Lakes

10/01/2019

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