Department of Geography and Resource Management (GRM), The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dr. GUO Chunlan

Faculty Member

Dr. GUO Chunlan

Lecturer

BSc (Sun Yat-sen)
MPhil, PhD (CUHK)

(852) 3943-6534

chunlanguo@cuhk.edu.hk

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Lee F.H. (PI), Guo C. (Co-I) and Leung W.K.T. (Co-I). Provision of Services for Production and Development of Learning and Teaching Resource Package related to the Geography of China. Education Bureau of Hong Kong SAR Government. Nov 2023 – Sep 2024. Amount: HKD 1,281,275.

Guo C. (PI). Toward the Measurement of Disaster Literacy: Scale Development and Validation. CUHK United College Endowment Fund Research Grant. Sep 2023 – Aug 2024. Amount: HKD 20,000.

Guo C. (PI). Cross-border differences in the disaster literacy of the general public in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area: A case study of typhoon emergency response (粵港澳大灣區公眾災害素養的跨邊界差異:以颱風災害為例). Young Scientist Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (國家自然科學基金青年科學基金項目). Ref. 4210012105. Jan 2022 – Dec 2024. Amount: RMB 300,000.

Wei H.(PI), Guo C. (Co-I) and Ho H.C. (Co-I). Towards People-centric Smart City Development: Investigating the Citizens’ Preferences and Perceptions about Smart-city Services in Hong Kong. Public Policy Research (PPR) Funding Scheme. Ref. 2021.A6 .185.21D. Apr 2022 to Mar 2023. Amount: HKD 469,401.

Chan E.Y.Y. (PI), Chan G.K.W. (Co-I), Guo C. (Co-I), Wong C. (Co-I), Liu S. (Co-I), Huang Z. (Co-I), Mark C.K.M. (Co-I). Teaching public health in disaster and emergency response with massive open online course and face-to-face classrooms: Building a global humanitarian response community. Micro-Module Courseware Development Grant, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. May 2017 to Apr 2018. Amount: HKD118,900.

Chan E.Y.Y. (PI), Goggins W.B. (Co-I), Chan G.K.W. (Co-I), Guo C. (Co-I) and Lam H.C.Y. (Co-I). Between extremes: Threatening heat and cold. Funded by RC’s One-off Funding Allocation – Impact Write-up Scheme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Jan 2017 to Dec 2017. Amount: HKD 99,950.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Journal articles and book chapters

Guo C., Kowk W.H.S.*, Xu Y. & Wang G. (2023). Machine learning analysis of government’s public risk communication during COVID-19 lockdown in Wuhan, China. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 99, 104119. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.104119

Wang, S. *, Molassiotis, A., Guo, C., Leung, I. S. H., & Leung, A. Y. M. * (2023). Association between social integration and risk of dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 71(2), 632-645. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.18094 

Xu, Y.*, Guo, C., Yang, J., Yuan, Z., & Ho, H. C. (2023). Modelling Impact of High-Rise, High-Density Built Environment on COVID-19 Risks: Empirical Results from a Case Study of Two Chinese Cities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(2), 1422. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20021422 

Guo C.*, Li S.* and Chan S.S.S. (2022). Long-tern effects of disaster exposure on health care workers’ resilience: A comparison of the Wenchuan earthquake-exposed and unexposed groups. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 67: 102658. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102658

Molassiotis A.*, Guo C., West C. and Loke A.Y. * (2022). Identifying the priorities of nursing research for disaster management: A Delphi study and international survey. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 74:102935. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.102935

Li S., Guo C. * and Chan S. (2022). ICD-11 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Complex PTSD Among Hospital Medical Workers in China: Impacts of Wenchuan Earthquake Exposure, Workplaces, and Sociodemographic Factors. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12:735861. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.735861

Loke A.Y., Guo C., Jung Y. and Mao X. (2022). Role of the advanced or specialized nurse: In public health, advanced practice, and military services. In J. Langan (Ed.). Preparing Nurses for Disaster Management: A Global Approach. ISBN: 9780323776769

Guo C.*, Sim T., and Su G. (2021). Individual disaster preparedness in drought-and-flood-prone villages in Northwest China: Impact of place, out-migration and community. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(1649). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041649

Sim T., Han Z., Guo C.*, Yu J., Lau J., and Su G. (2021). Disaster preparedness, perceived community resilience, and place of rural villages in Northwest China. Natural Hazards, 108: 907–923. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-021-04712-x

Ho H.C.*, Wong P.Y.P., and Guo C.* (2021). Identity impacts of social and environmental perceptions on preparedness and knowledge of air pollution risk: A study of adolescent males in an urbanized, high-density city. Sustainable Cities and Society, 66:102678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102678

Molassiotis A.*, Guo C., Abu-Odah H., West C. and Loke A.Y. (2021). Evolution of disaster nursing research in the past 30 years (1990 -2019): A bibliometric and mapping analysis. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 58: 102230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102230

Loke A.Y., Li S., and Guo C.* (2021). Mapping a postgraduate curriculum in disaster nursing with the International Council of Nursing’s Core Competencies in Disaster Nursing V2.0: The extent of the program in addressing the core competencies. Nurse Education Today, 106: 105063. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2021.105063

Loke A.Y.*, Guo C. and Molassiotis A. (2021). Development of disaster nursing education and training programs in the past 20 years (2000-2019): A systematic review. Nurse Education Today, 99: 104809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2021.104809

Guo C., Sim T., and Ho H.C.* (2020). Impact of information seeking, disaster preparedness and typhoon emergency response on perceived community resilience in Hong Kong. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 50: 101744. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101744

Guo C.*, Sim T., and Ho H.C. (2020). Evaluation of risk perception, knowledge, and preparedness of extreme storm events for the improvement of coastal resilience among migrants: A lesson from Hong Kong. Population, Space and Place, 26: e2318. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2318

Rodgers J.*, Su G., Qi W., Milledge D., Densomre A., Davis C., England P., Young J., Cao Y., Chakos A., Li X., Sim T., So E., Parsons B., Sun L. Yu J. and Guo C. (2019). Creating an earthquake scenario in China: A case study in Weinan City, Shaanxi province. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 40: 101253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101305

Yu J., Sim T., Guo C.*, Han Z., Lau J., and Su G. (2019). Risk perception and adaptation intentions to earthquake risk in rural area of China. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 40:101253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101253

Rodgers J., Su G., Sim T., England P., Young J., Qi W., Li X., Li Z., Liu Y., Qi M., Sun L., Gao J., Wang D., Shi W., Guo C., Yu J., Feng X., Ma J., Chen K., Cao Y., Parsons B., So E., Chakos A., Davis C., Densmore A., Milledge D., Lai S.K., & Liu S. (2019). Home Coming: A story about how a strong earthquake affects a family with “left-behind” children (version for the general public). Beijing: Seismological Press. ISBN: 9787502851606.https://blog.inasp.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/PAGER-O-Scenario-for-Public-English.pdf

Rodgers J., Su G., Sim T., England P., Young J., Qi W., Li X., Li Z., Liu Y., Qi M., Sun L., Gao J., Wang D., Shi W., Guo C., Yu J., Feng X., Ma J., Chen K., Cao Y., Parsons B., So E., Chakos A., Davis C., Densmore A., Milledge D., Lai S.K., & Liu S. (2019). Home Coming: A story about how a strong earthquake affects a family with “left-behind” children (version for the government officials). Beijing: Seismological Press. ISBN: https://blog.inasp.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/PAGER-O-Scenario-for-Government-English.pdf

Chan E.Y.Y.*, Wang S.S., Ho J.Y.E., Huang Z., Liu S. and Guo C. (2017). Socio-demographic predictors of health and environmental co-benefit behaviours for climate change mitigation in urban China. PLoS ONE, 12(11): e0188661. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188661

Chan E.Y.Y.*, Huang Z., Mark C.K.M. and Guo C. (2017). Patterns of weather information acquisition and health significance during extreme cold weather: A cross-sectional survey in a sub-tropical metropolis. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 8(2):134-144. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-017-0127-8

Chan E.Y.Y.*, Guo C., Lee P., Liu S., Mark C.K.M. (2017). Health emergency and disaster risk management (Health-EDRM) in remote ethnic minority areas of rural China: The Case of a Flood-Prone Village in Sichuan. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 8(2):156-163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-017-0121-1

Guo C.* and Shen J. (2016). Gender and migration: Employment of rural migrants in South China’s factories. Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, 22(3): 228-248. https://doi.org/10.1080/12259276.2016.1205375

(*Corresponding author for journal articles)

 

Research reports

Guo C., Mulquin M., Coallier F., Wang F., Lawrence P. et al. (2021). Technology report: City information modelling and urban digital twins. Geneva: International Electrotechnical Commission. https://www.iec.ch/basecamp/city-information-modelling-and-urban-digital-twins

Guo C., Chan E.Y.Y. and Chung P.P.W. (2017). Disaster response and health risk management during 2010 Hainan flooding in China. In R. Shaw, E.Y.Y. Chan, L. Fang, L. Lu, P. Shi, S. Yang, G.K.W. Chan, J. Wong (Ed.), Co-designing DRR solutions: towards participatory action and communication in science, technology and academia (pp. 33-34). Hong Kong, China: ASTAAG, IRDR and CCOUC. http://ccouc.org/_asset/file/co-designing-drr-solutions-ebooks.pdf

 

Videos

Guo C. (2 Dec 2021) Understanding City Information Modelling and Urban Digital Twins. IEC-International Electrotechnical Commission. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ5zO6KPsJ4

 

Press/Media

Ming Pao (2023, Sep 13). Typhoons and rainstorms hit Hong Kong in succession, testing disaster risk management (颱風暴雨連環襲港 考驗災害風險管理), B7.

IEC. (2021, Jun 6). How standards can help key technologies for smart cities, https://www.iec.ch/blog/how-standards-can-help-key-technologies-smart-cities

IEC. (2021, Dec 8). New IEC Technology Report on CIM and UDTs, https://www.iec.ch/blog/new-iec-technology-report-cim-and-udts

MOUYAL, N. (2021, Dec 10). Designing the city of tomorrow: urban digital twins, https://etech.iec.ch/issue/2021-06/designing-the-city-of-tomorrow-urban-digital-twins

Teaching Fields

  • Food and hunger 
  • Geography of China
  • Population and migration
  • Urban geography
  • World development

Research interests

  • Ageing and health
  • Disaster risk reduction
  • Population and migration
  • Resilience
  • Smart cities

Services/ Posts

  • Co-convenor of ISO/IEC City Information Modelling and Urban Digital Twins Joint Working Group
  • Registered member of International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Systems Committee of Smart Cities
  • Outgoing liaison representative of International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Systems Committee of Smart Cities in ISO/TC 292 Security and resilience

Awards

Jun 2022: International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 1906 Award

Aug 2017: Outstanding Oral Presentation Award of the 49th Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health Conference, South Korea, “Disaster preparedness on fire incidents of urban public transport system: A cross-sectional study in a China metropolis”