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Dr Cho-Nam Ng

吳祖南 副教授

Room 10.35

391 77025

cnng@hku.hk

Associate Professor 

BSc, PhD (Lancaster); FHKMetSoc

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Research Interests

• Environmental Policy and Planning

• Environmental Impact Assessment and Strategic Environmental Assessment

• Nature Conservation

• Sustainable Development

• Water Governance

Courses

selected Publications

  2018  

• Xu, Q., Chen, J., Peart, M. R., Ng, C. N., Hau, B. C. H. and Law, W. W. Y. (2018) “Exploration of Severities of Rainfall and Runoff Extremes in Ungauged Catchments: A case study of Lai Chi Wo in Hong Kong, China.”  Science of the Total Environment 634: 640-649. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.04.024 (IF2018=5.589).
   

• Xie, Y., Yu, X., Ng, C. N. and Fang, L. (2018) “Exploring the Dynamic Correlation of Landscape Composition and Habitat Fragmentation with Surface Water Quality in the Shenzhen River and Deep Bay cross-border watershed, China.” Ecological Indicators 90: 231-246. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.11.051 (IF2018=4.490).
   

• Vollmer, D., Shaad, K., Souter, N. J., Farrell, T., Dudgeon, D., Sullivan, C. A., Fauconnier, I., ManDonald, G. M., McCartney, M. P., Power, A. G., McNally, A., Andelman, S. J., Capon, T., Devineni, N., Apirunmanekul, C., Ng, C. N., Shaw, M. R., Wang, R. Y., Lai, C., Wang, Z. and Regan, H. M. (2018) “Integrating the Social, Hydrological and Ecological Dimensions of Freshwater Health: The Freshwater Health Index.” Science of the Total Environment 627: 304-313. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.01.040 (IF2018=5.589). 
   

• Qi, X., Fu, Y., Wang, R. Y., Ng, C. N., Dang, H. and He, Y. (2018) “Improving the Sustainability of Agricultural Land use: An Integrated Framework for the conflict between Food Security and Environmental Deterioration.” Applied Geography 90: 214-223. DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2017.12.009 (IF2018=3.068).

  2017  

• Choi, Y. K. and Ng, C. N. (2017) “Land use change and its drivers in the transboundary Shenzhen River Catchment, China.” Mondes en Développement 177(1): 29-46. DOI: 10.3917/med.177.0029
   

• Qi, K., Fan, Z., Ng, C. N., Wang, X. and Xie, Y. (2017) “Functional Analysis of Landscape Connectivity at the Landscape, Component, and Patch Levels: A case study of Minqing County, Fuzhou City, China.” Applied Geography 80: 64-77. DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2017.01.009 (IF2018=3.068).

  2016  

• Wang, R. Y., Ng, C. N., Lenzer Jr, J. H., Dang, H. P., Liu, T. and Yao, S. J. (2016) “Unpacking Water Conflicts: A Reinterpretation of Coordination Problems in China’s Water Governance System.” International Journal of Water Resources Development 33(4): 553-569. DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2016.1197824 (IF2018=2.081).

  2015  

• Wang, R. Y. and Ng, C. N. (2015) “Can Centralized Sanctioning Promote Trust in Social Dilemmas? A Two-Level Trust Game with Incomplete Information.” PLoS One 10(4): e0124513. DOI: 10.1371/journal. pone.0124513 (IF2018=2.776). 
   

• Wang, R. Y., Si, Z., Ng, C. N. and Scott, S. (2015) “The Transformation of Trust in China’s Alternative Food Networks: Disruption, Reconstruction, and Development.” Ecology and Society 20(2): 19. (IF2018=4.136).

Last Update: September 2019

Current research projects

• Ecological Footprints of Hong Kong, Principal Investigator (Hui Oi Chow Foundation Grants)
   

• Mathematical Modelling of the Dynamic Relationship between Ambient Air Quality and Meteorological Parameters; Principal investigator (CERG grants)

Major community service appointments

• (2000 - )
  Member(part-time), Central Policy Unit, HK Government
   

• (1994 - )
  Member, Advisory Council on the Environment, HK Government
   

• (1996 - )
  Member, Energy Advisory Committee, HK Government
   

• (1998 - )
  Member, Wetland Advisory Committee, HK Government
   

• (1996 - )
  Member, Town Planning Appeal Board, HK Government
   

• (2000 - )
  Member, Hong Kong 2030: Planning Vision and Strategy, HK Government 
   

• (2001 - )
  Member, Monitoring Group on Trials and Studies in relation to the Harbour Areas Treatment Scheme, HK Government
   

• (2000 - )
  Advisor, Leisure and Cultural Services Department, HK Government
   

• (1995 - )
  Member, United States - Asian Environmental Partnership Programme Steering Committee, Division of Commerce, US Government
   

• (1995 - )
  Member, Regional Committee for Temperate East Asia, System for Analysis, Research and Training(START), International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), International Council of Scientific Unions(ICSU)
   

• (2000 - ) Director; 
  (1999 - 2000) President; 
  (1995 - 1999) Chairman;
  The Conservancy Association
   

• (2000 - ) Member;
  (1995 - 2000) Chairman;
  Management Committee of Mai Po Nature Reserve and Education Centre, World Wide Fund for Nature Hong Kong
   

• (1995 - 2000 )
  Member, executive committee, World Wide Fund for Nature Hong Kong 
   

• (1995 - ) Member;
  (1992 - 1995) Chairman;
  Executive Committee, Hong Kong Environment Centre
   

• (1995 - )
  Member, executive committee, Hong Kong Birdwatching Society
   

• (1999 - )
  Advisor, Green China Foundation