Christian Obermayr (University of Innsbruck) | Adequate and affordable housing for the poor remains one of the great challenges of the 21st century. Despite all efforts in the past housing policies have largely failed. This paper develops a normative compass and conceptual framework based on Henri Lefebvre’s right to the city and the policy arrangement […]

Day two of the workshop with 3 sessions: (i) Reflecting on urban digital transitions; (ii) Questioning urban environmental policies; and (iii) Making sense of of peri-urban and land use transitions

By Francesca Pilo (Utrecht University) | This presentation aims to contribute to recent debates on the politics of smart grids by exploring their installation in low-income areas in Kingston (Jamaica) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). This presentation illustrates how, in both contexts, the installation of smart metering is used as a security device that embeds […]

By Jaydip De (Barasat Government College) | Following the technological advancements, good governance of the urban environment is continuously coming into the focus. The guidelines of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are making valuable inroads to ensure urban sustainability. Human, being the prime sculptor of the environment is always influencing nature. During the last three decades, […]

By Godfred Amankwaa (University of Manchester) | There is no doubt that digital water — the use of digital technologies in the water sector — is growing, with evidence of widespread adoption and use across countries. Many water service providers are investing in new technologies not only to improve infrastructure performance and enable existing systems […]

By Tajreen Midhat Jafri (Habib University, Karachi) | Environment which once remained on the peripheries of the development debates, today holds an important place in Pakistan’s political discourse. For example, the Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI), led by Imran Khan, prioritized addressing environmental problems as part of its election campaigns. After coming to power in […]

By Yimeng Yang (National Taiwan University) | This presentation has been canceled. Taking urban tree preservation in Guangzhou as an empirical case, this paper seeks to examine how the local government in China consolidates the legitimacy of its rule through nature governance, and how it responds to state oversight while pacifying social resistance through different […]

By Ayansina Ayanlade (University of Vienna) | This study examines the contributions of different land cover types and variation in ecological locations on the intensity of urban LST over four major cities in the different ecological zone of Nigeria. Remote Sensing techniques were used to measure the LST intensity over different cities.  The contributions of […]

Marta Sapena (1), Marlene Kühnl (1,2), Klaus Martin (2), Hannes Taubenböck (1,3) 1 German Aerospace Center (DLR) 2 Company for Remote Sensing and Environmental Research (SLU) 3 Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) Landslides are the most frequent natural disaster in Colombia, coupled with cities growing unplanned and informal towards high-risk areas due to land scarcity. Earth Observation […]

By Namfon Phramaingam and Worawit Jitsukka (Mahasarakham University) | The National Economic and Social Development Council has developed an economic development strategy to stimulate economic activity in Thailand’s border market, leading to investment in the commercial sector at Chong Chom market. The purpose of this study is to evaluate and predict land use changes in […]

By Manisha Jain (Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development) | The 21st century urbanisation process unfolding under globalisation and neoliberalisation in the global South is characterised by rapid transition of land uses in peri-urban areas, specifically juxtaposition of rural and urban uses, neglect of formal policy and planning, inequality, informal structures (for infrastructure […]

By Alexander Follmann (University of Cologne) | The term peri-urbanization has been widely used to describe a range of different processes that transform rural areas to a mix of rural and urban spaces. It is empirically clear that the urban periphery of the global south hosts the most dynamic processes of urbanization in the contemporary […]

By Sarah Luft (University of Cologne) and Carsten Butsch (University of Cologne, University of Bonn) | With ongoing urban extensions and population growth in Indian cities, periurban areas gain importance. These spaces are assigned diverse functions, including food and water supply, providing livelihoods, and ecosystem services, while repositioning along the urban-rural continuum. Periurban areas are […]

closing discussion about lessons learned and ways forward.