The Environment and Sustainability Platform is based in Macao and works towards the Greater Bay Area. It strives to carry out comprehensive academic research, especially focusing on exchanges and cooperation with Macao, its neighboring regions, and internationally renowned academic institutions to systematically study rising issues in the environment and development of the Greater Bay Area, to open up new fields, to build a base for the cultivation of outstanding research talents, to construct a distinctive research platform, and to produce more innovative and influential results.
The research fields will mainly include but not be limited to:
Vehicle emission pollution and risk analysis
Urban ambient air quality simulation and prediction
Environmental pollution and risk analysis of Macao estuary
Solid waste recycling and managment.
Urban energy saving and emission reduction, and clean energy resources utilization
Ecological remediation of urban lake landscape
Public health and urban environmental pollution
Life cycle assessment methods and applications
Applications of remote sensing and urban geographic systems
Strategic studies for urban sustainable development and sustainable development index system
Environmental quality standard and risk assessment of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao
Recovery theory and technology for the contaminated soil