Microplastic pollution in a coastal wetland of Hong Kong; Principal investigator: LAI, Yuk Fo; Sponsor: CUHK - Research Committee - Direct Grants; Date: 1 Jun 2020 to 31 May 2022; Amount: HKD 100,000

Energy Use Behaviors and Patterns in Commercial Buildings: Comparing Hong Kong with Shanghai; Principal investigator: LI, Jing; Sponsor: United College - Lee Hysan Foundation Research Grant Scheme & Endowment Fund Research Grant Scheme; Date: 1 Jan 2020 to 31 Dec 2021; Amount: HKD 20,000

Health by design in contest: The planning politics of healthy city in China; Principal investigator: CHUNG, King Lam; Sponsor: CUHK - Research Committee - Direct Grants; Date: 1 Jun 2020 to 31 Jul 2021; Amount: HKD 99,377

The impact of hukou category on the social and economic performance of floating population in China; Principal investigator: SHEN, Jianfa; Sponsor: CUHK - Research Committee - Direct Grants; Date: 16 Jun 2020 to 15 Jun 2022; Amount: HKD 90,620

A comparative study of new towns in three Asian cities: Access to activity opportunities, travel patterns and well-being; Principal investigator: HE, Ying; Sponsor: CUHK - Research Committee - Direct Grants; Date: 30 Jun 2020 to 29 Jun 2022; Amount: HKD 100,000

Investigating Accessible Tourism as a Sustainable Tourism Development Strategy: Lesson Learnt from Oita Prefecture, Japan; Principal investigator: CHAN, Chung Shing; Sponsor: Lee Hysan Foundation and Endowment Fund Research Grant; Date: 1 May 2020 to 31 Dec 2021; Amount: HKD 15,000

Healthy Cities: Exposome and Gene-environment Interactions; Principal investigator: KWAN, Mei Po; Sponsor: Research Committee Funding for Research Sustainability of Major RGC Funding Schemes; Date: 1 Jul 2019 to 30 Jun 2021; Amount: HKD 1,500,000

Environmental Health and Environmental Justice; Principal investigator: NG, Mee Kam; Sponsor: Research Committee Funding for Research Sustainability of Major RGC Funding Schemes; Date: 1 Jul 2019 to 30 Jun 2021; Amount: HKD 1,500,000

Low-carbon transport, individual wellbeing and planetary health in the era of smart cities and new mobilities; Principal investigator: HE, Ying; Sponsor: WUN Research Development Fund (RDF) 2019; Date: 1 Jan 2020 to 31 Dec 2021; Amount: GBP 10,000

Investigating International University Students as Hosts for Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) Travel through Perspectives a Comparative Study between Hong Kong and Innsbruck; Principal investigator: CHAN, Chung Shing; Sponsor: CUHK - Research Committee - Direct Grants; Date: 1 Jul 2018 to 30 Jun 2020; Amount: HKD 41,347

China-India Technology Collaboration for Renewable Energy under the Belt and Road Initiative; Principal investigator: XU, Yuan; Sponsor: CUHK - Research Committee - Direct Grants; Date: 1 Jul 2018 to 30 Jun 2020; Amount: HKD 100,000

Conviviality in World Cities: Religion, Masculinity, and Belonging among Young South Asian Muslim Men in Hong Kong; Principal investigator: ES, Murat; Sponsor: CUHK - Research Committee - Direct Grants; Date: 1 Jun 2019 to 1 Jun 2020; Amount: HKD 50,000

Spatial and Social Analysis of Happiness with Social Survey and Social Media Data; Principal investigator: HUANG, Bo; Sponsor: CUHK - Research Committee - Direct Grants; Date: 1 Jun 2019 to 31 May 2020; Amount: HKD 100,000

Social Resilience to Climate Change in Historical China; Principal investigator: LEE, Fung; Sponsor: CUHK - Research Committee - Direct Grants; Date: 1 Jun 2019 to 30 Nov 2020; Amount: HKD 97,050

Examining Perceived Service Quality of Public Transport Systems and Travel Satisfaction of Metro Users Using Social Media Data; Principal investigator: HE, Ying; Sponsor: CUHK - Research Committee - Direct Grants; Date: 30 Jun 2019 to 29 Jun 2021; Amount: HKD 100,000

Transboundary Air Pollution in China and UK; Intensity, Attribution and Impacts; Principal investigator: YIM, Hung Lam Steve; Sponsor: CUHK-University of Exeter Joint Centre for Environment Sustainability & Resilience (ENSURE); Date: 1 Jan 2019 to 31 Dec 2020; Amount: HKD 1,015,120

Increasing the Resilience to the Health Impacts of Extreme Weather on Elderly People under Future Climate Change; Principal investigator: LAU, Ngar Cheung; Sponsor: Research Committee - Research Impact Matching Fund; Date: 24 Jun 2019 to 23 Jun 2022; Amount: HKD 1,696,182

Earth System Model to Understand and Project Hong Kong/Pearl River Delta Air Quality and its Health Impacts under Climate Change; Principal investigator: LAU, Ngar Cheung; Sponsor: Research Committee Funding for Research Sustainability of Major RGC Funding Schemes; Date: 27 May 2019 to 30 Jun 2021; Amount: HKD 500,000

Matching CO2 sources and storage sites along the Maritime Silk Road; Principal investigator: XU, Yuan; Sponsor: Research Committee Funding for Research Sustainability of Major RGC Funding Schemes; Date: 26 Jun 2019 to 25 Jun 2021; Amount: HKD 480,000

How Can the Dragon Soar? An Interdisciplinary Approach to China”s Post-Reform Dialectics of State, Market and Space; Principal investigator: XU, Jiang; Sponsor: Research Committee Funding for Research Sustainability of Major RGC Funding Schemes; Date: 30 Jun 2019 to 29 Jun 2021; Amount: HKD 680,000

Evaluation of environmental effectiveness and economic efficiency of incentive-based instruments for pollution control in China and Australia; Principal investigator: XU, Yuan; Sponsor: USyd-CUHK Partnership Collaboration Awards; Date: 1 Jan 2019 to 30 Jun 2020; Amount: HKD 60,000

Wind or Solar? The Political Economy of Fuel Competition between Renewables; Principal investigator: XU, Yuan; Sponsor: Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Research Development Fund; Date: 1 Jan 2018 to 31 Dec 2020; Amount: HKD 110,840

The Role of Salinity and pH in the Photodegradation and Biodegradation of Dissolved Organic Matter in Eutrophic Wetlands; Principal investigator: LAI, Yuk Fo; Sponsor: CUHK - Research Committee - Direct Grants; Date: 1 May 2018 to 31 Oct 2020; Amount: HKD 45,946

Spatiotemporal Modeling of Economic Impacts of High-speed Railways in China; Principal investigator: HUANG, Bo; Sponsor: CUHK - Research Committee - Direct Grants; Date: 1 Jun 2018 to 31 Oct 2019; Amount: HKD 100,000

CUHK-Exeter Joint Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Resilience (ENSURE); Principal investigator: LAU, Ngar Cheung , YIM, Hung Lam Steve; Sponsor: CUHK - Vice-Chancellor's One-off Discretionary Fund; Date: 1 May 2018 to 31 Jul 2024; Amount: HKD 10,000,000

Smart and Sustainable Cities: City as Commons; Principal investigator: FUNG, Tung; Sponsor: CUHK - Vice-Chancellor's One-off Discretionary Fund; Date: 1 Jun 2018 to 30 Jun 2021; Amount: HKD 10,000,000

Impacts of Global Warming On the Risk of Flood and Drought Hazards in China in the 21st Century; Principal investigator: CHEN, Yongqin David; Sponsor: CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Grants); Date: 1 Jul 2017 to 30 Jun 2019; Amount: HKD 47,500

Public Transport Development and Spatial Justice: Investigating the Relationship between MTR Expansion and Socio-Spatial Marginalization in Hong Kong; Principal investigator: HE, Ying; Sponsor: CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Grants); Date: 1 Jul 2017 to 30 Jun 2019; Amount: HKD 100,000

Analyzing Modelling Error of Regional Migration Models Using a Simulation Approach; Principal investigator: SHEN, Jianfa; Sponsor: CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Grants); Date: 1 Jul 2017 to 30 Jun 2019; Amount: HKD 95,000

The Effects of Global Socioeconomic and Emission Scenarios on Land-Use Changes and Regional Climate in China: Utilizing a Multiscale Integrative Environmental Assessment Framework; Principal investigator: LIN, Hui; Sponsor: CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Grants); Date: 1 May 2018 to 31 Jan 2019; Amount: HKD 45,762

Seeing between the Lines: The New Planning Politics in China as a Fragmented Eco-State; Principal investigator: XU, Jiang; Sponsor: CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Grants); Date: 1 Jun 2018 to 30 Jun 2019; Amount: HKD 91,892

Characterizing ‘Blue Carbon’ Dynamics in Subtropical Mangroves; Principal investigator: LAI, Yuk Fo; Sponsor: CUHK-University of Manchester (UoM) Research Fund; Date: 1 Aug 2017 to 31 Jul 2018; Amount: HKD 49,000

Utilization of Earth System Modeling and Field Measurements to Understand and Project Hong Kong/Pearl River Delta Air Quality under Climate Change; Principal investigator: LAU, Ngar Cheung, YIM, Hung Lam Steve; Sponsor: Research Committee Group Research Scheme; Date: 1 May 2018 to 30 Apr 2021; Amount: HKD 500,000

Investigating Tourism as a Strategy of Recovery from Natural Disasters in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan; Principal investigator: CHAN, Chung Shing; Sponsor: United College Endowment Fund, CUHK; Date: 1 Apr 2018 to 31 Mar 2019; Amount: HKD 29,725

Improving the Assessment of Soil Carbon Sequestration in the Subtropical Forests of Hong Kong; Principal investigator: LAI, Yuk Fo; Sponsor: CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Grants); Date: 1 May 2017 to 31 Dec 2018; Amount: HKD 50,000

Monitoring Glacier Mass Balance at the Eastern Nyainqentanglha with Bistatic SAR Interferometry and Satellite Laser Altimetry; Principal investigator: LIN, Hui; Sponsor: CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Grants); Date: 1 May 2017 to 30 Apr 2018; Amount: HKD 99,600

Much Ado about Representing: China’s Land Development as a Strategic Discursive-Material Nexus; Principal investigator: XU, Jiang; Sponsor: CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Grants); Date: 1 May 2017 to 30 Nov 2018; Amount: HKD 95,000

Determinants of Rural-Urban Consumption Disparity in China; Principal investigator: LI, Jing; Sponsor: CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Grants); Date: 1 Jun 2017 to 30 Dec 2017; Amount: HKD 100,000

Earth System Model to Understand and Project Hong Kong/Pearl River Delta Air Quality and Its Health Impacts under Climate Change; Principal investigator: LAU, Ngar Cheung; Sponsor: Research Committee Group Research Scheme; Date: 1 May 2017 to 30 Apr 2019; Amount: HKD 500,000

CUHK-Utrecht-UoT Tripartite Laboratory for Urban Research; Principal investigator: LEUNG Yee; Sponsor: Research Committee's One-off Funding for joint/lab and collaboration; Date: 1 Aug 2016 to 30 Jun 2018; Amount: HKD 999,930

Advancing Air Quality, Food Security and Human Health under Global Climate Change; Principal investigator: LAU, Ngar Cheung, YIM, Hung Lam Steve; Sponsor: CUHK - Vice-Chancellor's One-off Discretionary Fund; Date: 1 Jan 2016 to 31 Dec 2022; Amount: HKD 20,000,000

Quantifying the Seasonal Changes in Climatic Extremes and Their Implications on Water Hazards in China during the 21st Century; Principal investigator: CHEN, Yongqin David; Sponsor: CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Grants); Date: 1 Jul 2015 to 30 Jun 2017; Amount: HKD 40,000

Effects of Land Use and Land Cover Change on Soil Organic Carbon Fractions in the Subtropical Coastal Wetlands; Principal investigator: LAI, Yuk Fo; Sponsor: CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Grants); Date: 1 May 2016 to 31 Dec 2017; Amount: HKD 40,000

An assessment of Hong Kong’s spatial planning in new towns from the perspective of economic agglomeration and job accessibility; Principal investigator: HE, Ying; Sponsor: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, CUHK; Date: 1 Jun 2016 to 31 May 2018; Amount: HKD 155,174

Understanding the Demand for Electric Vehicles in Beijing; Principal investigator: HE, Ying; Sponsor: Research Committee's One-off Funding for Direct Grants; Date: 29 Sep 2015 to 30 Apr 2017; Amount: HKD 40,000

Comparing the Perceptions and Benefits of Tranquillity in Typical Park Landscapes in Mainland China and Hong Kong by Visitor Numbers; Principal investigator: MARAFA, Lawal Mohammed; Sponsor: Research Committee's One-off Funding for Direct Grants; Date: 1 Oct 2015 to 31 Mar 2017; Amount: HKD 40,000

Place-making and Well-being: An Interdisciplinary and Exploratory Study; Principal investigator: NG, Mee Kam; Sponsor: Research Committee's One-off Funding for Direct Grants; Date: 1 Nov 2015 to 30 Oct 2016; Amount: HKD 40,000

Risk Assessment of Floods and Droughts in China during the 21st Century under the Changing Climate; Principal investigator: CHEN, Yongqin David; Sponsor: Research Committee's One-off Funding for Direct Grants; Date: 1 Dec 2015 to 30 Apr 2017; Amount: HKD 40,000

Air Quality in the Hong Kong/Pearl River Delta Region under the Influences of Global Climate Change: An Integrated Earth System Science Approach (T24-408/15-N); Principal investigator: LAU, Ngar Cheung; Sponsor: Research Committee's One-off Funding for Research; Date: 1 Oct 2015 to 30 Jun 2017; Amount: HKD 1,000,000

An Integrated Approach to Air Pollution Monitoring and Analysis in the Urban Environment; Principal investigator: LEUNG Yee; Sponsor: Research Committee's One-off Funding for Research; Date: 1 Nov 2015 to 30 Jun 2017; Amount: HKD 500,000

Research on the Tomo-PSInSAR Method for Cost-effective and High-accuracy Monitoring of Hong Kong’s Infrastructure and Built Environment; Principal investigator: LIN, Hui; Sponsor: Research Committee's One-off Funding for Research; Date: 1 Jan 2016 to 30 Jun 2017; Amount: HKD 500,000

Intelligent Open Urban Informatics Platform and Applications in Air-Quality and Personalized Healthcare Monitoring and Analysis for Active and Healthy Living in Smart Cities; Principal investigator: FUNG, Tung; Sponsor: Vice-Chancellor's One-off Discretionary Fund; Date: 1 Nov 2015 to 31 Oct 2018; Amount: HKD 3,000,000