Environment and natural disasters
Publication Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2-2025
Abstract
This chapter connects developments which might appear incongruous or counter-intuitive, such as landscape change and disease emergence, or nature conservation and urban development. Not least in doing so, it appears to create a fuller impression of Hong Kong's development across the second half of the twentieth century. Hong Kong's miraculous growth and transformation, this chapter helps to show, was paralleled and followed by other developments, perhaps unexpected: an airport and dead dolphins, Hong Kong's globalized economy of flowing capital accompanied by flows of zoonotic disease.
Keywords
Despoliation, Conservation, Mobility, Transformation, Environment
Discipline
Asian Studies | Environmental Sciences
Research Areas
Integrative Research Areas
Publication
A new documentary history of Hong Kong, 1945-1997
Editor
Florence MOK and Charles Chi Keung FUNG
First Page
319
Last Page
337
ISBN
9789888876822
Identifier
10.5790/hongkong/9789888876822.003.0013
Publisher
Hong Kong University Press
City or Country
Hong Kong
Citation
GREATREX, Jack.
Environment and natural disasters. (2025). A new documentary history of Hong Kong, 1945-1997. 319-337.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/428
Copyright Owner and License
Hong Kong University Press
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888876822.003.0013