Dr. Emily Pan is a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Civil Society and Governance in the Faculty of Social Sciences. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Landscape Design) from Sun Yat-sen University and a Master of Design (Environmental Design) from Shenzhen University. She received a Ph.D. in Geography and Resource Management from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Her research interests lie in industrial ecology, environmental governance, brownfield regeneration, and rural revitalization. Her doctoral research integrates the concepts of industrial ecology and industrial land regeneration to investigate China’s pathways in transforming its local-regional industrial networks towards sustainability. Emily’s recent research focuses on social capital, urban innovations, and rural sustainability.
| 2017-2021 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| PhD (Geography and Resource Management) |
| 2013-2016 | Shenzhen University |
| MDes (Environmental Design) | |
| 2009-2013 | Sun Yat-sen University |
| BA (Landscape Design) |
| 2023-present | The University of Hong Kong |
| Centre for Civil Society and Governance | |
| Post-doctoral Fellow | |
| 2022-2023 | Guangdong Academy of Sciences |
| Guangzhou Institute of Geography | |
| Assistant Professor | |
| 2021-2022 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Department of Geography and Resource Management | |
| Research Associate |
RIF Social Capital project.
Creating Blended Value through Nature-based Solutions and Social Innovation.
Pan, M. M.*, Ng, M. K., Xu, Y. (2023). Reassembling Local-regional Industrial Networks Towards Sustainability: An Evolving ‘Eco-transformation arena’ in a Chinese Industrial District. Journal of Environmental Planning & Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2196371.
Pan, M. M.*, Ng, M. K., Xu, Y. (2023). Just Sustainability, Actor-networks and Environmental Politics in China: Local Controversies over Shared Environmental Infrastructure in Industrial Districts. Local Environment. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2023.2181778.
Ng, M. K.*, Tang, Y. Z., Pan, M. M., He, S. Y. (2022). Genesis of Smart Sustainable Development in Shenzhen, China’s ‘Silicon Valley’. Planning Theory & Practice. DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357. 2022.2139075.
Xu, Y., Caprotti, F.*, Zhang, W. S., Pan, M. M. (2022). The Socioenvironmental State and Urban Transitions: Eco-urbanism in China and the UK. Environment and Planning E – Nature and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221132835
Pan, M. M.*, Ng, M. K. (2022). Implementing Industrial Ecology in Regeneration Activities: A Possible Pathway for Transforming China’s Local-regional Industrial Systems Towards Sustainability? Journal of Cleaner Production, 338, 130601.
Zhang, X. L., Pan, M. M.* (2022). Emerging Rural Spatial Restructuring Regimes in Transitional China: A Tale of Three Transitional Villages in the Urban Fringe. Journal of Rural Studies, 93, 287-300.
Pan, M. M., Song, H. Y.* (2017). Transformation and Upgrading of Old Industrial Zones on Collective Land: Empirical Study on Revitalization in Nanshan. Habitat International, 65, 1-12.
Song, H. Y., Pan, M. M.*, Chen, Y. Y. (2016). Nightlife and Public Spaces in Urban Villages: A Case Study of the Pearl River Delta in China, Habitat International. 57, 187-204.