Measuring bulky waste arisings in Hong Kong

Measuring bulky waste arisings in Hong Kong.

All too often, waste authorities either assume that they know enough about their bulky waste stream or that it is too insignificant to deserve attention. In this paper, we use Hong Kong as an example to illustrate that official bulky waste figures can actually be very different from the reality and therefore important waste management decisions made based on such statistics may be wrong too. Th...

Integrated Solid Waste Management In Hong Kong

In November of 1997 an invitation was received to participate in a seminar in Hong Kong, that was concerned with solid waste management practices that are used outside their respective area. The thrust of the seminar, was to examine waste disposal techniques that are being employed throughout the world, and evaluate same for future use in the Chinese empire. Representatives from the Hong Kong a...

Prospect of Electronic Road Pricing in Hong kong

To cope with the urban congestion problem resulted from rapid urbanization some cities are successfully using Electronic Road Pricing policy as a demand management measure. In 1982, Hong Kong Governmenttook initiative to experiment electronic road pricing in Hong Kong. Though, the project outcome reveals that Electronic Road Pricing could bring tremendous economic, social and environmental bene...

Projecting municipal solid waste: The case of Hong Kong SAR

Hong Kong.

We develop an equilibrium model to analyze the role of the media in electoral competition. When policy payoffs are state-dependent, party policies do not converge to the median voter’s ideal policy if the media report only party policies. News analysis about the state, though possibly biased, can discipline off-equilibrium deviations and make the parties adopt more centrist policies. Since vote...