Prof. Alex LO

• Human adaptation and resilience to climate change
• Social vulnerability to natural disasters
• Sustainable economic development and transformation
• Environmental perception and behaviour
• Environmental policy and governance
• Carbon emissions trading and carbon markets
• Market-based policy instruments for environmental management

Lo, A.Y. and Xiang, C. (2025) China’s Climate Policy: Transition, Governance, and Market. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

Lo, A.Y. (2016) Carbon Trading in China: Environmental Discourse and Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

1. Xiang, C. and Lo, A. Y. (2025) Authoritarian environmentalism 2.0: An incremental transition of environmental governance in China, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 43(4), p. 765–782.
2. Lam, T. W.L., Fang, W., Ma, A.T.H., Zhang, K., Cheung. L.T.O., Lo, A. Y., Fok, L. (2025) Explaining the intention to practice “Leave No Trace” in Hong Kong’s country parks: The roles of environmental self-identity, personal moral norms and awareness of consequences, Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 51, 100916
3. Lo, A.Y., Cheung, L.T.O. and Liu, S., (2024) Sense of place and micro-business vulnerability to extreme weather in China, Geoforum, 156, 104135.
4. Qiu, M., Pei, Q., Lo, A.Y., and Fei, J (2024) Lost in Luxury: Climate Change and Silk Consumption in Mid-Qing China (1735–1840 CE), The Professional Geographer, 76(5), p. 543-556.
5. Lo, A.Y., Liu, S., and Cheung, L. T.O. (2024) Political-economic transformation and the reproduction of climate change vulnerability of a high-income city, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 101, 104234
6. Wong, G.K.L, Ma, A.T.H., Cheung, L.T.O. Lo, A. Y. and Jim, C.Y., (2024) Visiting urban green space as a climate-change adaptation strategy: Exploring push factors in a push–pull framework. Climate Risk Management, 43, 100589.
7. Lo, A. Y. (2023) Carbon offsetting and renewable energy development, Geographical Research, 61(2), p. 158-163.
8. Lo, A. Y. and Cong, R. (2022) Emission reduction targets and outcomes of the Clean Development Mechanism (2005 – 2020), PLOS Climate. 1 (8), e0000046.
9. Lo, A. Y., Jim, C.Y., Cheung, P.K., Wong, G.K.L, and Cheung, L.T.O. (2022) Space poverty driving heat stress vulnerability and the adaptive strategy of visiting urban parks, Cities, 127, 103740.
10. Cheung, L.T.O., Ma, A.T.H., G.K.L Wong, Y. Lo, and C.Y. Jim (2022) Perceived benefits, negative impacts, and willingness‐to‐pay to improve urban green space, Geographical Research, 60(3), p. 414-430.
11. Pickering, J., Hickmann, T., Bäckstrand, K., Kalfagianni, A., Bloomfield, M., Mert, A., Ransan-Cooper, H., & Lo, A. Y. (2022). Democratising sustainability transformations: Assessing the transformative potential of democratic practices in environmental governance. Earth System Governance, 11, 100131.
12. Wang, Y. & Lo, A. Y. (2022) Residential space poverty and the spatial solutions for Chinese migrants in Hong Kong, Urban Policy and Research, 40(2), p. 104-121.
13. Lo, A.Y., Liu, S., Chow, A.S.Y, Pei, Q., Cheung, L. T.O. and Fok, L. (2021) In government we trust? Micro-business adaptation to climate change in four post-colonial and transitional economies of China, Global Environmental Change, 69, 102305.
14. Ma, A.T.H., Wong,G.K.L, Cheung, L.T.O., Lo, Y. and Jim, C.Y. (2021) Climate change perception and adaptation of residents in Hong Kong, Journal of Cleaner Production, 288, 125123.
15. Lo, A.Y., Liu, S., Chow, A.S.Y, Pei, Q., Cheung, L. T.O. and Fok, L. (2021) Business vulnerability assessment: A firm-level analysis of micro and small businesses in China, Natural Hazards, 108, p. 867–890.
16. Cong, R., Lo, Y. and Yu, W (2021) The distribution and regional determinants of nationally financed emissions-reduction projects in China, Energy Policy, 152, 112215.
17. Chen, K. and Lo, A.Y. (2021) Local Climate Change Governance in China: An Analysis of Social Network and Cross-sector Collaboration in Capacity Development, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 23 (1), p.48-65.
18. Lo, A.Y., Liu, S., Cheung, L. T.O. and Chan, F.K.S. (2020) Contested Transformations: Sustainable Economic Development and Capacity for Adapting to Climate Change, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110, (1), p.223-241
19. Lo, A.Y., Chen, K., Lee, A.K.-y. and Mai, L.Q. (2020) The neoliberal policy experimentation on carbon emission trading in China, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 38(1), p. 153-173
20. Lo, A. Y. and Chen, K. (2020). Business participation in the development of a Chinese emission trading scheme, Energy Policy, 140, 111432.

Research Grant Council (Hong Kong), General Research Fund, “Empowering Net-Zero Cities: Unleashing the Full Potential of Smart Data-Enabled Networks and Scalability from energy communities – A Comparative Study of Urban Living Labs (ULLs) in Hong Kong, Seoul, and Bristol” (2025 – 2027) (Co-I)

British Academy (UK), Amplifying Sub-Saharan African Climate Adaptation Research: Bridging the Epistemic Gap and Promoting Global Visibility (2025 – 2027) (Co-I)

Research Grant Council (Hong Kong), General Research Fund, “Delivering carbon-neutral goals through smart social learning in communities: A cross-cultural analysis of three Asian cities (Kyoto, Seoul and Hong Kong)” (2023 – 2025) (Co-I)

Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research “Developing the capacity of student scientists to support disadvantaged communities in coping with flooding” (2022-23) (PI)

SMERU Research Institute (Indonesia) and ANU Indonesia Project (Australia). ‘The attitude of Indonesian urban community toward living on the top of water’ (2021 – 22) (Co-I)

National Natural Science Foundation of China. ‘The socio-economic context and the future of domestic voluntary trading of greenhouse gas emission reductions in China’ (2017 – 19) (PI)

University Grants Committee (Hong Kong)   ‘Applying Virtual Reality Technology for building risk awareness and knowledge of environmental hazards’ (2017 – 19) (Co-I)

Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund (Hong Kong), ‘The regional development of domestic carbon markets in China’ (2017 – 18) (PI)

Environment and Conservation Fund (Hong Kong) – Environmental Research, Technology Demonstration and Conference Projects, ‘Research Project for Reviewing the Performance of the Environment and Conservation Fund’ (2016 – 17) (PI)

National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (Australia) ‘Building a business case for coastal adaptation’ (2015 – 16) (Co-I).

Regional Studies Association (UK). Early Career Grant Scheme 2015, ‘Beyond Neoliberalism? The Regional Carbon Markets in China and the Activity of Financial Industry’. (2015 – 16) (PI)

Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Australia-China Joint-Action Program, “The Institutions of Carbon Markets in Australian and China: Insights for Policy-making and Regional Cooperation”. (2014) (PI)

Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Australia-China Joint-Action Program, “Climate Risk Governance in Vulnerable Cities: A Comparative Study of Brisbane and Shanghai”. (2013) (PI)

Griffith Climate Change Response Program (Australia). GCCRP Seed Funding 2013, “Climate change in the ‘Asian Century’: A comparative analysis of the carbon trading policy discourses of Australia and China”. (PI)

Griffith Climate Change Response Program (Australia). GCCRP Seed Funding 2012, ‘ Economic resilience to climate change impacts: A study of the public preferences for flood insurance’. (PI)