October 23, 2013, by Graham Kendall

Green Technologies for Asia Pacific Economies

Special Issue for Springer journal – Clean Technology & Environmental Policy

Green Technologies for Asia Pacific Economies

Professor Ir Dr Dominic C. Y. Foo and DDr Lam Hon Loong of the UNMC Centre of Excellence for Green Technologies (CEGT) have recently edited a special issue for the journal of Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy (CTEP, published by Springer; 2012 impact factor of 1.827).  The issue appears as volume 15 issue 5 of the journal, and has just been published in October 2013.  The special issue has a theme of Green Technologies for Asia-Pacific Economies, consisting of 10 papers that reported various green technologies developed in Asia Pacific countries, including those in Japan, India, China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Korea and the Philippines.

In the editorial of the special issue, Professor Foo and DDr Lam wrote that green technologies have grown actively in various parts of Asia Pacific including Malaysia.  They also define green technologies as any technique, strategy or procedure which helps with movements towards the goal of sustainable development.  Some Asian countries are very proactive in promoting green technologies.  They also mention about the Green Building Index (GBI) and National Biomass Strategy will enhance Malaysia’s competitiveness as a hub for clean technologies.

The special issue has also been reported in the recent Green Technology Supplement of the New Straits Times on 9 Oct 2013 (click here for the report).

 

Biodata for editors:

Prof Foo is the Director for CEGT.  He also serves as in the Editorial Board of CTEP, and is the Subject Editor for Clean Technologies in Process Safety and Environmental Protection of Elsevier and IChemE (Institution of Chemical Engineers UK), and Chief Editor for IEM Journal (Institution of Engineers Malaysia).  He is also the Outstanding Young Malaysian Award 2012 of Junior Chamber International (JCI), for the category of “Technological Breakthrough”, due to his achievements in developing green technologies in the past decade.  He has also been announced as the SCEJ (Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan) Award for Outstanding Asian Researcher and Engineer.

 

Dr Lam is the Conference Manager for CEGT.  He is active in sustainable and cleaner production synthesis, especially in green supply chain analysis for under-utilised biomass in Malaysia. He is well recognition in this field.  He is the Scientific Secretary for a leading cleaner production conference – International Conference on Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction (PRES Conference), editor and guest-editorship in several international refereed journals on green technologies, such as Journal of Cleaner Production, ENERGY, Applied Thermal Engineering (all with Elsevier), Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy (Springer), and Chemical Engineering Transactions (AIDIC). DDr Lam will be the Conference Chair for PRES 2015 when the conference is held in Malaysia.

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