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64
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1123
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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Chris Webster is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China, focusing primarily on Environmental Science and Social Sciences. Their research encompasses various subfields, including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Transportation, Economics and Econometrics, Building and Construction, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics covered by Webster's work include:

  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation

Webster's recent papers showcase a concentration on urban environments, greenspace exposure, and sustainability issues. Notable publications include:

  • "Contrasting inequality in human exposure to greenspace between cities of Global North and Global South," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "The nature of cities and the Covid-19 pandemic," 2020, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • "From LiDAR point cloud towards digital twin city: Clustering city objects based on Gestalt principles," 2020, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • "Improved human greenspace exposure equality during 21st century urbanization," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Estimating construction waste generation in the Greater Bay Area, China using machine learning," 2021, Waste Management

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Webster on multiple occasions include:

  • Chinmoy Sarkar
  • Ka Yan Lai
  • Weisheng Lu
  • Hung Chak Ho
  • Yimeng Song

The most frequent publication venues where Webster's research appears are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Automation in Construction
  • Environment International
  • Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Journal of Cleaner Production

Among book publications, Webster has contributed to a title published by Elsevier BV: Sport, Social Media, and Digital Technology (2022).

Webster has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Simulation of Land Development through the Integration of Cellular Automata and Multicriteria Evaluation

    Fulong Wu;Christopher John Webster

  • Property rights, planning and markets: managing spontaneous cities

    Christopher John Webster;Lawrence Wai-Chung Lai

  • Urban villages under China's rapid urbanization: Unregulated assets and transitional neighbourhoods

    Yuting Liu;Shenjing He;Fulong Wu;Christopher John Webster

  • Informality and the Development and Demolition of Urban Villages in the Chinese Peri-urban Area

    Fulong Wu;Fangzhu Zhang;Chris Webster

  • Property Rights and the Public Realm: Gates, Green Belts, and Gemeinschaft

    Christopher John Webster

  • The Global Spread of Gated Communities

    Chris Webster;Georg Glasze;Klaus Frantz

  • Private Cities: Global and Local Perspectives

    Georg Glasze;Christopher J. Webster;Klaus Frantz

  • Gated cities of tomorrow

    Chris Webster

  • Residential greenness and prevalence of major depressive disorders: a cross-sectional, observational, associational study of 94 879 adult UK Biobank participants

    Chinmoy Sarkar;Chris Webster;John Gallacher

  • Exploring associations between urban green, street design and walking: Results from the Greater London boroughs

    Chinmoy Sarkar;Chris Webster;Matthew Pryor;Dorothy Tang

  • Property Rights Redistribution, Entitlement Failure and the Impoverishment of Landless Farmers in China

    Shenjing He;Yuting Liu;Christopher John Webster;Fulong Wu

  • Public choice, pigouvian and coasian planning theory

    Christopher J. Webster

  • Property rights, public space and urban design

    Chris Webster

  • Social Groups and Housing Differentiation in China's Urban Villages: An Institutional Interpretation

    Shenjing He;Yuting Liu;Fulong Wu;Christopher John Webster

  • Simulating artificial cities in a GIS environment: urban growth under alternative regulation regimes

    Fulong Wu;Christopher J. Webster

  • Computational Building Information Modelling for construction waste management: Moving from rhetoric to reality

    Weisheng Lu;Chris Webster;Ke Chen;Xiaoling Zhang

  • Enclosure of the urban commons

    Shin Shim Lee;Christopher John Webster

  • Homeowners Associations, Collective Action and the Costs of Private Governance

    Simon C.Y. Chen;Chris J. Webster

  • Estimating and calibrating the amount of building-related construction and demolition waste in urban China

    Weisheng Lu;Chris Webster;Yi Peng;Xi Chen

  • Examining the interaction of fast-food outlet exposure and income on diet and obesity: evidence from 51,361 UK Biobank participants.

    Thomas Burgoine;Chinmoy Sarkar;Chris J. Webster;Pablo Monsivais;Pablo Monsivais

  • The Donald Robertson Memorial Prizewinner 2003 The Nature of the Neighbourhood

    Christopher John Webster

Frequent Co-Authors

Fulong Wu
Fulong Wu University College London
Shenjing He
Shenjing He University of Hong Kong
William C. Sullivan
William C. Sullivan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Xiaoling Zhang
Xiaoling Zhang University of Hong Kong
Linwei Tian
Linwei Tian University of Hong Kong
Kin-Fai Ho
Kin-Fai Ho Chinese University of Hong Kong
Junji Cao
Junji Cao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hui Lin
Hui Lin Jiangxi Normal University
Patrick C. Y. Woo
Patrick C. Y. Woo University of Hong Kong
Tatia M.C. Lee
Tatia M.C. Lee University of Hong Kong

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