On 24-25 November 2016 I had a chance to return to Guangzhou and present the findings on my research on the governance of climate change adaptation in the cities of the Pearl River Delta to an audience of scholars and practitioners from the Guangdong Province and Municipality of Guangzhou, gathered as part of a small workshop organised by the TU Delft - South China University of Technology Joint Research Centre 'Urban Systems and Environments'. The workshop was intended to facilitate a two-way dialogue between academia and practice. The goal was double: (1) to enhance the uptake of solutions, ideas and concepts from scholarly research by the local governments and (2) vice versa, to gather inputs from the practitioners on what are their knowledge gaps and core challenges faced by the cities in the region from the point of view of environmental and climate change impacts and the need to develop new models for more sustainable urbanisation. I was pleased to receive some stimulating and to-the-point feedback, particularly on the recommendations for policy and practice stemming from my research, as well as some challenging questions (inviting a degree of much welcome reality-check) which I intend to reflect upon when writing the forthcoming papers. In the meantime, please take a look at the summary of the said findings and implications for practice outlined in the presentation from the workshop.
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AuthorMarcin Dąbrowski, Researcher at TU Delft Categories |