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Overview

Alex Y. Lo is affiliated with Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences. Their work covers a range of topics centered on environmental governance, climate change, disaster management, and sustainability.

The main topics of Alex Y. Lo's research include:

  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation

Within their fields of study, the subfields frequently engaged are:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Alex Y. Lo has published in various academic venues, among which the most frequent are:

  • Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks
  • Energy Policy
  • Geographical Research
  • Earth System Governance
  • Cities

Their recent publications demonstrate a focus on sustainability transformation, urban environments, climate change policy, and emission reduction mechanisms. Notable papers include:

  • "Democratising sustainability transformations: Assessing the transformative potential of democratic practices in environmental governance," 2022, Earth System Governance
  • "Space poverty driving heat stress vulnerability and the adaptive strategy of visiting urban parks," 2022, Cities
  • "Climate change perception and adaptation of residents in Hong Kong," 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "The distribution and regional determinants of nationally financed emissions-reduction projects in China," 2021, Energy Policy
  • "Emission reduction targets and outcomes of the Clean Development Mechanism (2005-2020)," 2022, PLOS Climate

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Lewis T.O. Cheung
  • Chen Xiang
  • C.Y. Jim
  • Anson T.H.
  • Shuwen Liu

Alex Y. Lo has contributed to book publications as well. One such example is the book China's Climate Policy, published by Edward Elgar Publishing, slated for 2025.

Best Publications

  • Reconceptualizing green infrastructure for climate change adaptation: Barriers to adoption and drivers for uptake by spatial planners

    Tony Matthews;Alex Y. Lo;Jason A. Byrne

  • The role of social norms in climate adaptation: Mediating risk perception and flood insurance purchase

    Alex Y. Lo

  • Willingness of residents to pay and motives for conservation of urban green spaces in the compact city of Hong Kong

    Alex Y. Lo;Chi Yung Jim

  • Citizen attitude and expectation towards greenspace provision in compact urban milieu

    Alex Y.H. Lo;Chi Yung Jim

  • ‘It's real, not fake like a park’: Residents’ perception and use of informal urban green-space in Brisbane, Australia and Sapporo, Japan

    Christoph D.D. Rupprecht;Jason A. Byrne;Hirofumi Ueda;Alex Y. Lo

  • Emission trading and carbon market performance in Shenzhen, China

    Ren Cong;Alex Y. Lo

  • DELIBERATIVE MONETARY VALUATION: IN SEARCH OF A DEMOCRATIC AND VALUE PLURAL APPROACH TO ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

    Alex Y. Lo;Clive L. Spash

  • Differential community effects on perception and use of urban greenspaces

    Alex Y.H. Lo;Chi Yung Jim

  • Residents’ understanding of the role of green infrastructure for climate change adaptation in Hangzhou, China

    Jason A. Byrne;Alex Y. Lo;Yang Jianjun

  • Protest response and willingness to pay for culturally significant urban trees: Implications for Contingent Valuation Method

    Alex Y. Lo;C.Y. Jim

  • Carbon trading in a socialist market economy: Can China make a difference?

    Alex Y. Lo

  • Challenges to the development of carbon markets in China

    Alex Y. Lo

  • Democratising sustainability transformations: Assessing the transformative potential of democratic practices in environmental governance

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  • Barriers and policy enablers for solar photovoltaics (PV) in cities: Perspectives of potential adopters in Hong Kong

    Daphne Ngar-yin Mah;Guihua Wang;Kevin Lo;Michael K.H. Leung

  • The relationship between climate change concern and national wealth

    Alex Y. Lo;Alex T. Chow

  • Carbon emissions trading in China

    Alex Y. Lo

  • Reason and rhetoric in climate communication

    John S. Dryzek;Alex Y. Lo

  • Could urban greening mitigate suburban thermal inequity?: the role of residents’ dispositions and household practices

    Jason Byrne;Christopher Ambrey;Chloe Portanger;Alex Lo

  • What time to adapt? The role of discretionary time in sustaining the climate change value-action gap

    Andreas Chai;Graham Bradley;Alex Y. Lo;Joseph Reser

  • After CDM: Domestic carbon offsetting in China

    Alex Y. Lo;Ren Cong

  • Agreeing to pay under value disagreement: Reconceptualizing preference transformation in terms of pluralism with evidence from small-group deliberations on climate change

    Alex Y. Lo

  • Social capital and community preparation for urban flooding in China

    Alex Y. Lo;Bixia Xu;Faith Ks S. Chan;Ruixian Su

  • How climate change perception is reshaping attitudes towards the functional benefits of urban trees and green space: Lessons from Hong Kong

    Alex Y. Lo;Jason A. Byrne;Chi Yung Jim

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason Antony Byrne
Jason Antony Byrne University of Tasmania
Graham Leslie Bradley
Graham Leslie Bradley Griffith University
Alex T. Chow
Alex T. Chow Clemson University
Jonathan C. Aitchison
Jonathan C. Aitchison University of Queensland

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