Land and Housing Controversies in Hong Kong
Perspectives of Justice and Social Values
Editors: Yung, Betty, Yu, Kam-Por (Eds.)
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- Examines social values beyond the justice dimension suggested by the United Nations in land governance
- Investigates the social values that define the “good” in the context of land and housing controversy resolution, such as equality and autonomy
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This book discusses land and housing controversies in Hong Kong, which offer a point of reference for the comparison and analysis of similar or contrasting cases overseas from the perspective of social values. It enhances readers’ understanding of the social values, philosophical and theoretical issues that underpin land and housing controversies, as well as their policy implications. The discussion in each chapter goes beyond mere substantive and contextual analysis, and is explicitly positioned and theorized within the broader context of social values, with a theoretical and philosophical framework for assessing the issue concerned. The book is interdisciplinary in nature, with each chapter integrating two or more disciplines to examine various controversial land and housing issues.
- About the authors
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Betty Yung is a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong. Holding a PhD from the University of Bristol, her research is chiefly interdisciplinary, combining Philosophy, Public Policy and Housing Studies to examine ‘justice in Hong Kong housing policy’. She has worked at several universities in Hong Kong, including the University of Hong Kong, the Education University of Hong Kong, and the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong. Besides working in academia, she has served as a Senior Researcher at the Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong SAR government, thus allowing her to add a practical dimension of ‘politics and public policy at work’ in her research and teaching. She authored the book Hong Kong’s Housing Policy: A Case Study in Social Justice and co-edited the book Ethical Dilemmas in Public Policy. She has also authored or co-authored numerous articles published in international journals. Her research interests include Applications of Philosophy to Public Policy, Housing Studies, Urban Studies and Hong Kong Studies.
Kam-por Yu is currently an Honorary Fellow of Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has previously served as Director of the General Education Centre, Hong Kong Polytechnic University; as an Associate Professor at the Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong; and as a Research Fellow at the University of Hong Kong, Harvard School of Public Health, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities of the University of Edinburgh, and Center for European Integration Studies of Bonn University, Germany. His recent publications include Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously (2010) and Ethical Dilemmas in Public Policy (2016); as well as numerous papers in journals such as Philosophy East and West, and Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, and in books released by academic publishers, including Oxford and Cambridge.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Land, Housing and Social Values—The Context of Hong Kong
Pages 1-25
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Nano-apartments: The Synergy of Rights, Choice, Markets, and Regulations?
Pages 29-39
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Third Sector Housing: Housing Philanthropy, Self-reliance and Policy Facilitation
Pages 41-62
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A Rawlsian Model of Land Justice for Hong Kong: The Controversy on the Development of the North New Territories
Pages 63-81
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Reconsidering ‘Develop First, Conserve Later’ Principle: The Case of Third Runway in Hong Kong
Pages 83-98
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Land and Housing Controversies in Hong Kong
- Book Subtitle
- Perspectives of Justice and Social Values
- Editors
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- Betty Yung
- Kam-Por Yu
- Series Title
- Governance and Citizenship in Asia
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-981-15-5266-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-15-5266-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-981-15-5265-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-981-15-5268-7
- Series ISSN
- 2365-6255
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VI, 239
- Number of Illustrations
- 7 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
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