Department of Public Policy - City University of Hong Kong

Department of Public Policy
公共政策學系

Faculty / Academic and Teaching

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WONG, Natalie Wai Man

YUNG, Lawrence Yeuk-yu

ZHANG Lin

ZHANG, Xiaoling

Dr ZHANG, Xiaoling
張曉玲

B.B.A (Management,Shandong University), PhD (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Associate Professor

Xiaoling Zhang’s research focuses on sustainability science and resource management, and political economics of environment studies and energy studies. She also works predominantly with macro-level dynamics in sustainable urbanization, regional & neighborhood change, land use change, urban socio-spatial restructuring, informal & formal policy regime, governance and the interactions between them. She serves as Co-editor in Chief for Sustainable Earth and is one of the special recognition diplomas’ awardee for the 35th World Cultural Council. Her current book is entitled ‘Remaking sustainable urbanism: space, scale and governance’ has come out in 2019. She used to act as the Associate Editor of 'Journal of Cleaner Production' (Theme: Regional Sustainable Development Initiatives and Transformations) during the period of 2015-2017. She has also led a good number of competitive research projects including two RGC grants and two NSFC grants and several invited keynote presentations at international conferences. Dr Zhang was also the winner of the Outstanding Researcher Award for Junior Faculty 2017 and the President Awards 2016.

For more details of Xiaoling’s work, please refer to Google Scholar Citations

Office: YEUNG-B7309
Phone: +852 3442 2402
Fax: +852 3442 0413
Email: xiaoling.zhang@cityu.edu.hk

Housing and Urban studies

Environmental studies

Governance of Multi-owned Housing

Micro-level management in real estate enterprises

Competitiveness for real estate developers/home builders

Macro-level dynamics in urbanization, housing policy, urban land use planning, gentrification and urban redevelopment and the interactions between them

Facility Management

Contemporary issues on Housing management

Housing Economics and Finance

Housing and Urban Policy

Zhang X (Edited book). Remaking Sustainable Urbanism: Space, Scale and Governance, Palgrave macmillan, 2019

Gu, B., Zhang, X., Bai, X., Fu, B., & Chen, D. (2019). Four steps to food security for swelling cities, Nature, 588, 31-33. Doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-00407-3

Zhang, X., & Li, H*. (2018). Urban resilience and urban sustainability: What we know and what do not know? Cities, 72, 141–148.

Li, N., Zhang, X., Shi, M.*, & Hewings, G. J. (2019). Does China's air pollution abatement policy matter? An assessment of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region based on a multi-regional CGE model. Energy Policy, 127, 213-227

Wu, Q., Zhang, X*., & Waley, P. (2016). Jiaoyufication: When gentrification goes to school in the Chinese inner city. Urban Studies, 53(16), 3510-3526.

Zhong, T., Zhang, X., Huang, X.*, & Liu, F. (2019). Blessing or curse? Impact of land finance on rural public infrastructure development. Land Use Policy, 85, 130-14

On-going research projects:

National Natural Science Foundation (Key Projects), NSFC (China)(中国国家自然科学基金重点项目) (71834005), Transitional development and governance of small towns in China (我国小城镇的转型发展与治理研究), 01/2019 to 12/2023, Principal Investigator, RMB$2350,000, On-going (This is the first ever acting as PI funded NSFC key project in CityU’s history)

Research Grants Council General Research Fund (General Research Fund) (Hong Kong) (9042363), How Green Turns into Gold? Optimizing the Dual Effect of ‘Price Premium for Green’ and ‘Cost Premium for Green’ of HK-BEAM Plus Certified Housing, 1/1/2017 to 31/12/2019, Principal Investigator, HK$675,647, On-going