Posted on FB on 13 September 2015: Sustainable Urbanization – a global South perspective. An amazing five days has just come to an end here in Durban. Wednesdeay through to Saturday was spent facilitating a session on Sustainable Urbanization focussed on the theme ‘modes of urban governance’. Incredible group of about 18 researchers from all regions (mainly global South, but with 2 from the USA, and 1 from Switzerland). This was the third seminar of its kind convened by International Social Science Council – I co-facilitated the first one in Quito, and this one here in Durban, but missed the one in Taipei. All three groups came together today at the World Social Science Forum to present summaries of their discussions. Very inspiring stuff – empirically rich, theoretically sophisticated, radical and action oriented.
Themes and papers from the Sustainable Urbanization seminar in Durban:
Thematic session 1: Climate Change and Governance
Aakriti Grover: Inter-linkages between land use/cover, air pollution, Urban Heat Island and human health: perspectives on urban governance in Delhi, India
Lorena Pasquini: Challenges and success in mainstreaming climate change adaptation in urban local government: a City of Cape Town case study
Thematic session 2: Climate Change/ Environmental Justice /
Sustainability
Saleh Ahmed: Transformative Urban Politics in the Megacities of the Global South: Focus on the Environmental Justice Movement in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Isabelle Anguelovski: Inclusive approaches to urban climate adaptation planning and implementation: Lessons from municipal experimentations
Alisa Zomer: Evaluating equity and governance in sustainable cities: Analysis of 100 Resilient Cities in China, India, and the United States
Thematic session 3: Land Use/ Agriculture/Governance
Tracy-Ann Hyman: Relocation or renewal? The case of Mona Commons, St Andrew, Jamaica
Kareem Buyana: Collaborative Sub-urban Transformation for Land Use Compatibility in Africa
Uchendu Chigbu: Tackling the challenges of urban poverty through “land-use planning for tenure security”: steps and activities for action in Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Thematic session 4: Urban Development/ Inclusive Development
Alice Hertzog: Avenues in the Tropics: Trans-disciplinary Tools for Emerging Cities
George Kinyashi: Retrospection of Private-State-Citizen Spatial Planning Financing Model in the Global South: Potentials and Limitations
Andre Ortega: Trajectories of Peri-Urban Futures: Mapping spaces of inequality, social justice and sustainability in Manila’s Peri-Urban Fringe
Ruishan Chen: Challenges of China’s Urbanization and the Promise of New-type Urbanization
Thematic session 5: Urban Poverty/ Governance
Karolina Luckasiewicz: Urban poverty, neighborhoods and social capital in NYC.
Martin Maldonado: From Dumpsite Scavenging to Waste Management Systems. Political Implications for Urban Governance in the Interior of Argentina
Thematic session 6: Urban Environmental Sustainability/
Housing/ Governance
Olumuyiwa Adegun: Reducing inequality, ramping up environmental quality: Just sustainability
in co-produced informal settlement upgrading in Johannesburg
Collins Adjei Mensah: Towards environmental sustainability in African cities: Addressing the governance inefficiencies on urban green spaces in Kumasi, Ghana
Hayley Leck: Local authority responses to climate change and urban challenges in South Africa – transcending administrative boundaries
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