香港中文大学地理与资源管理系

学系研讨会

学系研讨会

Departmental seminars are held normally at 4:30-6:00pm on Thursdays every week in the two semesters and irregularly during the summer and winter breaks. Please click the links below and see the seminar posters.

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