Sustainable Public Administration

Land Administration for Sustainable Development

Sustainable Agriculture and Public Policy

Sustainable design in public housing

Introduction Public Housing in Hong Kong has significantly shaped our built environment and has provided over 900,000 public housing units, accommodating nearly half of the population. The move of public housing towards sustainable design is therefore a challenging task. Environmental concern is nothing new for the Hong Kong Housing Authority and environmentally friendly practice is an importan...

Making public transport financially sustainable

Over the past two decades, Germany has improved the quality of its public transport services and attracted more passengers while increasing productivity, reducing costs, and cutting subsidies. Public transport systems reduced their costs through organizational restructuring and outsourcing to newly founded subsidiaries; cutting employee benefits and freezing salaries; increasing work hours, usi...

Public Understanding of Sustainable Tourism

If tourism is to become part of a more sustainable lifestyle, changes are needed to the patterns of behaviour adopted by the public. This paper presents the results of research conducted amongst members of the public in England on their understanding of sustainable tourism; their response to four desired tourism behaviour goals, and expectations about the role of government and the tourism indu...