Claudio O. Delang

Claudio O. Delang is Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography of the Hong Kong Baptist University.
He is also a Research Affiliate at the Southeast Asia Research Centre of the City University of Hong Kong, and director of the Hong Kong Chapter of the Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE). He is a human geographer specializing in nature-society relations, especially the use of - and conflicts over - natural resources in East and Southeast Asia, in the context of environmental change, local-global articulations of power and land use policies, and social and economic transformations.
He has carried out ground breaking research on the Genuine Progress Indicator, notably on Hong Kong and Singapore, and showed that while the economy of Singapore (as measured by the GDP) has increased considerably during the last decades, people's welfare (as measured by the Genuine Progress Indicator) has dropped stopped growing since 2005.
He has a PhD in Geography from the National University of Singapore.
Publications
He has published more than 40 articles and book chapters, and six books:
* Delang, C.O. (2016). China’s Air Pollution Problems. London: Rutledge
* Delang, C.O. (2016). China’s Water Pollution Problems. London: Rutledge
* Delang, C.O. and Y.H. Yu (2015) Measuring Welfare beyond Economics: The Genuine Progress of Hong Kong and Singapore. London: Rutledge
* Delang, C.O. and Z. Yuan (2014) China’s Grain for Green Program: A Review of the Largest Ecological Restoration and Rural Development Program in the World. Heidelberg: Springer
* Delang, C.O., W.M. Li (2012) Ecological Succession on Fallowed Shifting Cultivation Fields. Heidelberg: Springer
* Delang, C.O. (Ed.) (2003) Living at the Edge of Thai Society: the Karen in the Highlands of Northern Thailand. London: Routledge

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