Urban Planning and Environmental Law Quarterly (Sep 2025)
This edition introduces a new, regular segment covering the Northern Metropolis, a massive urban development project in the New Territories. The main article provides an overview of key aspects of the project drawing on various reports and publications, such as GBA (Greater Bay Area) press releases.
Urban Planning and Environmental Law Quarterly (July 2025)
The 2024 Fred Kan & Co. Prize was awarded to Ms. Malene Eilertsen for her dissertation–Assessing the Perception and Personal Experiences of Climate Change in Hong Kong in the Wake of Recent Extreme Weather Events—which was submitted to the board of Examines for the degree of MSc in Environmental Management at the University of Hong Kong. We provide an overview of the dissertation in this edition of the UPELQ.
Urban Planning and Environmental Law Quarterly (Mar 2025)
In this edition we, once again, highlight an inexplicable anomaly of Hong Kong’s environmental protection programme, namely the consistently low, unrealistic level of penalties ordered by magistrates for environmental offences.