{"id":56,"date":"2018-03-26T06:50:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T06:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2018-09-27T17:35:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T09:35:19","slug":"working-groups","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/working-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>APRU-SCL conferences provide opportunities for academics and experts from different regions, cultures and disciplines around the Pacific Rim to explore and collaborate on common sustainability challenges and to develop new understandings and responses that can foster transformative change within cities, and between cities and their surrounding landscapes.<\/p>\n<p>2018 APRU-SCL Conference at The University of Hong Kong, was structured around 11 thematic working groups (WG).<\/p>\n<p>Members of each working group worked collaboratively throughout the conference to craft a paper that establishes an action orientated agenda for future research, education and\/or project initiative.\u00a0 WG papers will be compiled into a formal conference publication.<\/p>\n<p>Local excursions and site visits around urban and rural Hong Kong were run during the conference to give attendees insight into some of the sustainability concepts as they relate to high-rise, high-density Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/working-groups\/city-landscape-sustainability\/\"><strong>City-Landscape Sustainability\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Edwin Schmitt\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages, U. Oslo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/working-groups\/landscape-and-human-health\/\"><strong>Landscape and Human Health<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bin Jiang\u00a0 \u00a0Asst. Professor, Landscape Architecture, HKU<\/li>\n<li>Chun-Yen Chang \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Professor, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture\u00a0 National Taiwan University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/working-groups\/productive-cities-infrastructural-ecologies\/\"><strong>Productive Cities, Infrastructural Ecologies<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Miss Wang Ting. University of Hong Kong<\/li>\n<li>Mathew Pryor\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Assoc. Professor (Teaching), Landscape Architecture, HKU<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/working-groups\/smart-cities\/\"><strong>Smart Cities<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr Mohsen Mohammadzadeh. University of Auckland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/working-groups\/sustainable-urban-design\/\"><strong>Sustainable Urban Design<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Errol J Haarhoff. Professor of Architecture, Director: Urban Research Network, University of Auckland<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/working-groups\/transitions-in-urban-waterfront\/\">Transitions in Urban Waterfront<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anne Taufen Wessells, Assoc. Professor, Urban Studies, U. Washington Tacoma<\/li>\n<li>Ken Yocom\u00a0 Assoc. Professor, Landscape Architecture, U. Washington Seattle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/working-groups\/urban-biodiversity\/\"><strong>Urban Biodiversity\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Caroline Dingle\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, HKU<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/working-groups\/urban-renewable-energy\/\"><b>Urban Renewable Energy<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Makena Coffman\u00a0\u00a0 Professor, Urban &amp; Regional Planning, U. Hawaii, Manoa<\/li>\n<li>Yekang Ko\u00a0\u00a0 Asst. Professor,\u00a0 Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/working-groups\/urban-water-and-sanitation\/\"><strong>Urban Water and Sanitation<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kory Russel, \u00a0Asst. Professor,\u00a0 Landscape Architecture and Env Studies, University of Oregon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/working-groups\/urban-rural-linkages\/\"><strong>Urban-rural Linkages<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yizhao Yang\u00a0 \u00a0 Assoc. Professor.\u00a0 Planning, Public Policy and Management . U. Oregon<\/li>\n<li>Sara Padgett Kjaersgaard\u00a0 Lecturer, Landscape Architecture, UNSW\u00a0 Built Environment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/working-groups\/vulnerable-communities\/\"><b>Vulnerable<\/b><strong>\u00a0Communities<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stephanie Pincetl \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Professor, Institute of the Environment and\u00a0Sustainability, UCLA<\/li>\n<li>Kian Goh\u00a0 \u00a0Asst. Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA<\/li>\n<li>Mark Gold\u00a0 Assoc. 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