Kris Hartley
Assistant Professor of Sustainability & Enterprise
School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
♻️Circular economy 📜Public policy 📱Technology
📍Phoenix, Arizona USA
http://www.krishartley.com
- My new co-authored article for the journal Technology in Society: "Social challenges in smart cities: a scoping review and framework for policy action." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- My new op-ed for The Diplomat @thediplomat.com titled "Lessons in AI Trust From Hong Kong’s Leave HomeSafe Mobile App." #HongKong #AI thediplomat.com/2025/10/less...
- Excited to share my second new chapter this week: "Public policy for sustainability in Asia." Published in the Handbook of Public Policy in Asia (Edward Elgar Publishing), edited by Ora-orn Poocharoen, Piyapong Boossabong, & Pobsook Chamchong. #SDGs www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
- My new commentary for Arizona Technology Council entitled "Policymakers tread the swirling waters of AI innovation." www.aztechcouncil.org/arizona-stat...
- Thrilled to share my new book chapter entitled "The Impact of Social Media, ‘Fake News,’ and Disinformation on Policy Advice." Published in the Handbook of Policy Advice (Edward Elgar Publishing) & edited by two greats - @howlettm.bsky.social & Ishani Mukherjee www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
- My new article for International Journal of Water Resources Development entitled "Through the water glass darkly: global cities as problematic exemplars in the sustainability discourse." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- My new article co-authored with the great Julian Kirchherr for the Journal of Industrial Ecology, titled "Is circular economy a failing sustainability paradigm? Not necessarily" #CircularEconomy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Pleased to share my new chapter (Routledge Press) co-authored with the great Elena Reshetova. "Strengthening governance accountability in smart cities: The case of urban energy transition in Jakarta, Indonesia." www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
- Join me Friday at the Kauffman Foundation Conference Center in beautiful Kansas City for the 10th Midwest Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship, sponsored by the UMKC School of Law. I will be serving as a panelist for a session titled "Recent Developments on AI Legislation." lei.center/mwse-schedule
- Today I was quoted in a Consumer Reports @consumerreports.org article about #greenwashing www.consumerreports.org/home-garden/...
- You have questions about India's #circulareconomy and we have answers. My new op-ed for Observer Research Foundation co-authored with the sharp and creative Shreyash Sharma: "India’s Circular Economy: Lofty Ambitions, Limited Progress" www.orfonline.org/expert-speak... #India #Sustainability
- My new co-authored article in the journal Social Indicators Research @socialindicators.bsky.social "Public Trust in Covid-19 Tracking Technology: A Survey of Attitudes About Hong Kong’s LeaveHomeSafe Mobile App." N=5,000. w/ Austin Aldag #Covid #HongKong #Technology link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Excited to deliver a webinar on Dec 3 entitled "AI and wicked problems: opportunities and concerns" for Hallym University, South Korea. Thank you Hemin Choi for the invite. AI presents plausible novelty but ultimately deepens existing ways of defining and solving policy problems.
- My new co-authored article in the journal Policing & Society: "The mediating role of societal context in translating policy learning into policy change: the case of Iranian police" w/Hamid Sajadi. Superficial learning -> unfit for context -> no legitimacy www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UREJ7...
- My new co-authored article for Journal of Cleaner Production "Building innovation ecosystems for circularity: Start-up business models in the food and construction sectors in the Netherlands" w/ Thomas Bauwens @thbauwens.bsky.social Julian Kirchherr & M. Hekkert www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
