Alex Y Lo
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 961716 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alex Y Lo |
| NOMBRES | Alex Y |
| APELLIDO | Lo |
| FIRMA | LO A Y |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5953-4176 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 180 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Transformative Capacity of Vulnerable Populations in Indonesia and Myanmar for Adapting to Coastal Flooding
Transformative adaptation interventions protect vulnerable populations from the dreadful consequences of climate change. Current debates emphasize system change and collective agency, leaving the concept of transformative individual adaptation undefined. This article aims to present a fuller account of transformative action and capacity at the microlevel (i.e., individual and household). Our study examines adaptation responses of different levels…
Political-economic transformation and the reproduction of climate change vulnerability of a high-income city
System transformation is important for low-lying coastal cities to adapt to natural disasters related to climate change, but not all forms of transformation enable adaptation. An important question is how an enduring system change undermines the enabling conditions for reducing vulnerability. This paper addresses the relationship between society-wide transformation and vulnerability reduction. A case study of Macao is used to explain structural v…
Lost in Luxury
A quantitative approach has been promoted to understand the history of climate and society. Statistical research on luxurious expenses under climate change in past societies remains insufficient, however. Hence, this study statistically examined the association between climate change and the imperial court’s luxury expenses on silk products in mid-Qing China (1735–1840 CE) by including major ecological–social–economic stresses. Results indicated …
Authoritarian environmentalism 2.0
The recent policy practice in China has shown nuanced differences from previous accounts of authoritarian environmentalism. The emerging discourse of green transformation shows dual tendencies for (re-)centralizing and decentralizing environmental institutions. Our understanding of authoritarian environmentalism in China requires an update. We review the recent policy practice and the scholarly literature to advance a modified framework of author…
Sense of place and micro-business vulnerability to extreme weather in China
Micro-businesses are highly vulnerable to the impact of extreme weather. However, business and management research has primarily focused on larger organizations or tended to rely on evidence from developed countries. The concept of place is reduced to physical location and space. This research explores the role of a broader concept of place that encompasses sensemaking. The objective is to examine the relationship between sense of place and the v…
Carbon offsetting and renewable energy development
New carbon crediting and offsetting mechanisms are being developed under the Paris Agreement. Polluters can meet their emission reduction targets by acquiring and retiring carbon offset credits. Globally, most of these credits come from renewable energy sources. However, their additionality is increasingly questionable. Global renewable electricity capacity continues to grow. Greenhouse gas emissions from coal‐fired power generation are starting …
Residential Space Poverty and the Spatial Solutions for Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong
Residential space poverty has been a recurring urban phenomenon. This study shows how new migrants in Hong Kong navigate residential space poverty. We used Q-method to understand the subjective experiences of new migrants living in poor informal housing units. These migrants indicate mixed subjective experiences in using public and openly accessible spaces. Some of these spaces act as a “third place” that improves migrants’ quality of life, but s…
Democratising sustainability transformations
Many democracies find it difficult to act swiftly on problems such as climate change and biodiversity loss. This is reflected in long-standing debates in research and policy about whether democratic practices are capable of fostering timely, large-scale transformations towards sustainability. Drawing on an integrative review of scholarly literature from 2011 to early 2021 on sustainability transformations and the democracy-environment nexus, this…
Space poverty driving heat stress vulnerability and the adaptive strategy of visiting urban parks
Perceived benefits, negative impacts, and willingness-to-pay to improve urban green space
Urban green spaces provide multiple benefits but incur some negative impacts. We employed the contingent valuation method to investigate Hong Kong residents' willingness-to-pay to improve urban green space provision. A questionnaire collected 316 responses from urban-park visitors. It assessed perceptions of positive benefits and negative impacts and influences on willingness-to-pay. Health benefits attracted top scores, followed by environment a…
In government we trust? Micro-business adaptation to climate change in four post-colonial and transitional economies of China
Contested Transformations
Sustainable economic development could reduce vulnerability and enhance capacity to adapt to climate change. Paradigm-shifting developments, however, can be highly contested and produce diverse outcomes. New insights are needed as to how tensions and uncertainties emerging from these developments shape adaptive capacity. This article investigates the extent to which a sustainable pathway for economic development offers a systemic fix for increasi…
The neoliberal policy experimentation on carbon emission trading in China
China’s emission trading schemes are introduced as a prelude to a nationwide scheme. They allow authoritarian centralized control to strengthen, while making room for decentralization and business engagement. This article explores a mechanism that accommodates these contradictions. Our objective is to elaborate on the dynamic between centralizing and decentralizing forces. In China, the ongoing process of neoliberalizing climate change policies i…
Policy selection of knowledge
Environment and development
Towards network governance? The case of emission trading in Guangdong, China
Governing climate change in Hong Kong
Hong Kong continues to struggle over which environmental governance approach is in its best interest while fulfilling its environmental obligations. With regard to climate change, Hong Kong's approach is characterised by a passive form of governance that is highly dependent on China's national policy directions. This is reflected, for example, in Hong Kong having not set its own mitigation targets. Market mechanisms have received little attention…
National income and environmental concern
National income produces mixed impacts on public environmental concern. In a cross-national survey, environmental concern was measured in terms of propensity to act and environmental risk perception. Results of a multilevel regression analysis show that these two measures respond to gross domestic product per capita in opposite ways. Citizens of advanced industrial countries are more likely than those of lower-income countries to contribute to en…
Could urban greening mitigate suburban thermal inequity
Over the past decade research on urban thermal inequity has grown, with a focus on denser built\nenvironments. In this letter we examine thermal inequity associated with climate change impacts and\nchanges to urban form in a comparatively socio-economically disadvantaged Australian suburb. Local\nurban densification policies designed to counteract sprawl have reduced block sizes, increased height\nlimits, and diminished urban tree canopy cover (U…
Background inequality and differential participation in deliberative valuation
Small is green? Urban form and sustainable consumption in selected OECD metropolitan areas
Household economic resilience to catastrophic rainstorms and flooding in a Chinese megacity
Megacities situated on flood plains face escalating risks of waterlogging and inundation. Tianjin is one of these megacities in China where residents are exposed to these risks and not well prepared for their consequences. Government policies should support the most vulnerable and less resilient groups. This study can inform policy-making by identifying the socio-economic characteristics of those who are financially better prepared for the conseq…
Public support for environmental organisations in BRIC countries
The four BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) have recently come under an environmental spotlight. These fast-growing and influential economies could become new sites for environmental activism to prosper. As the public have gained the wealth to meet their material needs, they tend to give stronger support to protecting the environment and participating in environmental movements. However, there are initial signs of declining confiden…
Geographies of Social Capital
This article explores the relationships between catastrophe experience and risk perception, social interaction, and household response to future catastrophes. Our main argument recognizes the geographical context in which social capital is formed and reproduced. Social relationships and norms adjust to the social landscape, which can be transformed by the spatial consequences of natural catastrophes. We therefore argue that sources of household r…
Reconceptualizing green infrastructure for climate change adaptation
The role of social norms in climate adaptation
Citizen attitude and expectation towards greenspace provision in compact urban milieu
Residents' views are pertinent in urban-park design and management, yet they are often ignored. Social-empirical studies could enhance socially relevant park design
Protest response and willingness to pay for culturally significant urban trees
Differential community effects on perception and use of urban greenspaces
The social profiles of residential communities exert differential effects on expectations and demands on urban greenspaces. We studied the diversity of public perception towards urban greenspaces in compact urban Hong Kong. Random household samples were selected from four dominant residential communities: old-core public housing (OP), old-core residential (OR), suburban residential (SR), and new-town public housing (NP). They denote gradations in…
What time to adapt? The role of discretionary time in sustaining the climate change value–action gap
Powered by the state or finance? The organization of China’s carbon markets
This paper reviews the progress of carbon trading in China and examines the involvement of the state and financial sectors. China witnessed proliferation of domestic carbon markets before attempting to institutionalize the carbon trading regime. Direct and strong government intervention is a key feature of this process. The domestic carbon markets are primarily created, shaped, and operated by the central and local governments supported by a coho…
Agreeing to pay under value disagreement
Active conflict or passive coherence? The political economy of climate change in China
Mounting international pressure on China to accept binding targets for reducing carbon emissions appears to have put the Chinese public firmly behind the state's defence of national autonomy in formulating responses to climate change.This widely shared support for autonomy may then indicate a passive form of political coherence, where
Democratising sustainability transformations
Many democracies find it difficult to act swiftly on problems such as climate change and biodiversity loss. This is reflected in long-standing debates in research and policy about whether democratic practices are capable of fostering timely, large-scale transformations towards sustainability. Drawing on an integrative review of scholarly literature from 2011 to early 2021 on sustainability transformations and the democracy-environment nexus, this…
Power and Carbon Sovereignty in a Non-Traditional Capitalist State
Carbon markets emerge in the liberal-capitalist world as a product of a coalition of financial, political, and environmental actors that have common interests in turning GHG emissions reductions into a new commodity.1 Paterson argues that carbon markets have gained prominence because they have enabled the formation of such a powerful political coalition and enabled businesses to imagine a cycle of profits from these markets.2 Carbon markets flour…
Climate for Business
Considerable efforts are being organized to build a functioning carbon market in China. This paper presents an overview of the development of the Chinese carbon market and offers an industry perspective on the domestic regulatory and investment environments. It is based on a review of relevant publications and interviews with Beijing-based finance executives. We found that few financial institutions with the expertise required have been brought i…
Reason and rhetoric in climate communication
Rhetoric can facilitate movement beyond impasse on whether and how to confront climate change, enabling more effective public reasoning. Our evidence comes from a small deliberative group that contained climate-change deniers. We show how, in this setting, bridging rhetoric (capable of reaching those who do not share the speaker’s perspective) managed to bring deniers and others into accepting that particular greenhouse-gas mitigation measures we…
Small is green? Urban form and sustainable consumption in selected OECD metropolitan areas
Memories of vacant lots
Contact with nature is vital for the development of children and teenagers. In the past, informal urban green spaces (IGS) such as vacant lots appear to have been used for such purposes. We need to better understand how previous generations used IGS to make sure young people today can also enjoy its social, mental, emotional and physical health benefits. This study quantitatively compared adult residents' memories of IGS use in their childhood an…
The likelihood of having flood insurance increases with social expectations
Flood insurance can reduce potentially disastrous economic losses to households. As climatic uncertainties grow, governments have increasingly found the social costs of non‐insurance prohibitive. Attempts to improve insurance coverage could benefit from a characterisation of the insured and uninsured households. The dominant view holds that the insured household is more risk aware and more likely to consider the costs of insurance to be affordabl…
Community attachment and resident attitude toward old masonry walls and associated trees in urban Hong Kong
Policy selection of knowledge
Governing climate change in Hong Kong
Hong Kong continues to struggle over which environmental governance approach is in its best interest while fulfilling its environmental obligations. With regard to climate change, Hong Kong's approach is characterised by a passive form of governance that is highly dependent on China's national policy directions. This is reflected, for example, in Hong Kong having not set its own mitigation targets. Market mechanisms have received little attention…
National development and carbon trading
China has begun to embrace a “cap-and-trade” approach for mitigating domestic greenhouse gas emissions and proposed a national emission trading scheme. The neoliberal climate policy program received strong political support in China, despite challenging political and economic realities. The conditions upon which the new domestic carbon market is established stand at odds with the neoliberal argument that such markets serve the interests of a busi…
Space poverty driving heat stress vulnerability and the adaptive strategy of visiting urban parks
In government we trust? Micro-business adaptation to climate change in four post-colonial and transitional economies of China
The neoliberal policy experimentation on carbon emission trading in China
China’s emission trading schemes are introduced as a prelude to a nationwide scheme. They allow authoritarian centralized control to strengthen, while making room for decentralization and business engagement. This article explores a mechanism that accommodates these contradictions. Our objective is to elaborate on the dynamic between centralizing and decentralizing forces. In China, the ongoing process of neoliberalizing climate change policies i…
Towards network governance? The case of emission trading in Guangdong, China
Geographies of Social Capital
This article explores the relationships between catastrophe experience and risk perception, social interaction, and household response to future catastrophes. Our main argument recognizes the geographical context in which social capital is formed and reproduced. Social relationships and norms adjust to the social landscape, which can be transformed by the spatial consequences of natural catastrophes. We therefore argue that sources of household r…
Authoritarian environmentalism 2.0
The recent policy practice in China has shown nuanced differences from previous accounts of authoritarian environmentalism. The emerging discourse of green transformation shows dual tendencies for (re-)centralizing and decentralizing environmental institutions. Our understanding of authoritarian environmentalism in China requires an update. We review the recent policy practice and the scholarly literature to advance a modified framework of author…
Differential community effects on perception and use of urban greenspaces
The social profiles of residential communities exert differential effects on expectations and demands on urban greenspaces. We studied the diversity of public perception towards urban greenspaces in compact urban Hong Kong. Random household samples were selected from four dominant residential communities: old-core public housing (OP), old-core residential (OR), suburban residential (SR), and new-town public housing (NP). They denote gradations in…
Active conflict or passive coherence? The political economy of climate change in China
Mounting international pressure on China to accept binding targets for reducing carbon emissions appears to have put the Chinese public firmly behind the state's defence of national autonomy in formulating responses to climate change.This widely shared support for autonomy may then indicate a passive form of political coherence, where
Citizen attitude and expectation towards greenspace provision in compact urban milieu
Residents' views are pertinent in urban-park design and management, yet they are often ignored. Social-empirical studies could enhance socially relevant park design
The Encroachment of Value Pragmatism on Pluralism
Monetary valuation of urban green space using stated-preference approaches has gained prominence among pragmatic urban researchers, but the resultant reduced potential for value pluralism has gone unnoticed. There is confusion on value concepts. Public-social values have been treated as private-economic ones. The potential for reflecting the multiple values and social roles of urban nature is thus reduced. Being method-driven, the practice fails …
Carbon trading in a socialist market economy
Powered by the state or finance? The organization of China’s carbon markets
This paper reviews the progress of carbon trading in China and examines the involvement of the state and financial sectors. China witnessed proliferation of domestic carbon markets before attempting to institutionalize the carbon trading regime. Direct and strong government intervention is a key feature of this process. The domestic carbon markets are primarily created, shaped, and operated by the central and local governments supported by a coho…
The role of social norms in climate adaptation
Agreeing to pay under value disagreement
The likelihood of having flood insurance increases with social expectations
Flood insurance can reduce potentially disastrous economic losses to households. As climatic uncertainties grow, governments have increasingly found the social costs of non‐insurance prohibitive. Attempts to improve insurance coverage could benefit from a characterisation of the insured and uninsured households. The dominant view holds that the insured household is more risk aware and more likely to consider the costs of insurance to be affordabl…
Negative income effect on perception of long-term environmental risk
Power and Carbon Sovereignty in a Non-Traditional Capitalist State
Carbon markets emerge in the liberal-capitalist world as a product of a coalition of financial, political, and environmental actors that have common interests in turning GHG emissions reductions into a new commodity.1 Paterson argues that carbon markets have gained prominence because they have enabled the formation of such a powerful political coalition and enabled businesses to imagine a cycle of profits from these markets.2 Carbon markets flour…
The right to doubt
Many recent planning decisions, such as planned retreat of coastal settlements from the sea, are premised upon the scientific consensus that climate change is real. Not all local residents accept forced relocation, and some hold a radical form of rights-based belief that is hostile to government intervention into private arenas. This 'deontological libertarian' belief is related to a sceptical view of climate science. Data from an Australian surv…
Reconceptualizing green infrastructure for climate change adaptation
‘It's real, not fake like a park’
Urban parks and gardens may be failing to meet the diverse nature needs of a growing global urban population. Informal urban greenspace (IGS) such as vacant lots, street or railway verges and riverbanks may provide space for unstructured recreation and nature contact. Yet we know little about residents relationship with IGS outside of Europe and North America, whatfactors influence IGS use and evaluation, or what role geographic and cultural cont…
Come rain or shine? Public expectation on local weather change and differential effects on climate change attitude
Tailored messages are instrumental to climate change communication. Information about the global threat can be ‘localised’ by demonstrating its linkage with local events. This research ascertains the relationship between climate change attitude and perception of local weather, based on a survey involving 800 Hong Kong citizens. Results indicate that concerns about climate change increase with expectations about the likelihood and impacts of local…
National development and carbon trading
China has begun to embrace a “cap-and-trade” approach for mitigating domestic greenhouse gas emissions and proposed a national emission trading scheme. The neoliberal climate policy program received strong political support in China, despite challenging political and economic realities. The conditions upon which the new domestic carbon market is established stand at odds with the neoliberal argument that such markets serve the interests of a busi…
Memories of vacant lots
Contact with nature is vital for the development of children and teenagers. In the past, informal urban green spaces (IGS) such as vacant lots appear to have been used for such purposes. We need to better understand how previous generations used IGS to make sure young people today can also enjoy its social, mental, emotional and physical health benefits. This study quantitatively compared adult residents' memories of IGS use in their childhood an…
Climate for Business
Considerable efforts are being organized to build a functioning carbon market in China. This paper presents an overview of the development of the Chinese carbon market and offers an industry perspective on the domestic regulatory and investment environments. It is based on a review of relevant publications and interviews with Beijing-based finance executives. We found that few financial institutions with the expertise required have been brought i…
Protest response and willingness to pay for culturally significant urban trees
What time to adapt? The role of discretionary time in sustaining the climate change value–action gap
Community attachment and resident attitude toward old masonry walls and associated trees in urban Hong Kong
Reason and rhetoric in climate communication
Rhetoric can facilitate movement beyond impasse on whether and how to confront climate change, enabling more effective public reasoning. Our evidence comes from a small deliberative group that contained climate-change deniers. We show how, in this setting, bridging rhetoric (capable of reaching those who do not share the speaker’s perspective) managed to bring deniers and others into accepting that particular greenhouse-gas mitigation measures we…
National income and environmental concern
National income produces mixed impacts on public environmental concern. In a cross-national survey, environmental concern was measured in terms of propensity to act and environmental risk perception. Results of a multilevel regression analysis show that these two measures respond to gross domestic product per capita in opposite ways. Citizens of advanced industrial countries are more likely than those of lower-income countries to contribute to en…
Could urban greening mitigate suburban thermal inequity
Over the past decade research on urban thermal inequity has grown, with a focus on denser built\nenvironments. In this letter we examine thermal inequity associated with climate change impacts and\nchanges to urban form in a comparatively socio-economically disadvantaged Australian suburb. Local\nurban densification policies designed to counteract sprawl have reduced block sizes, increased height\nlimits, and diminished urban tree canopy cover (U…
Background inequality and differential participation in deliberative valuation
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