Territorial Governance and Spatial Planning in Europe

Territorial Governance and Spatial Planning in Europe: The Relevance for Flood Risk Management in the Chinese Pearl River Delta

Nadin, V. (TU Delft Spatial Planning and Strategy)
Meng, Meng (South China University of Technology)

Nijhuis, Steffen (editor)
Sun, Yimin (editor)
Lange, Eckart (editor)

2023

China and Europe have the common problem of mitigating flood risk, a problem partly created from poor management of the urban transition now compounded by the effects of climate change on sea level and extreme weather events. Adaptation to these effects requires extensive cooperation between administrative jurisdictions and policy sectors to strengthen shared land resource management. Governments generally look to urban planning to resolve potential damaging competition between sectoral policies, but it is often not well-equipped for this task. In Europe, there has long been recognition of the need to improve territorial governance, in part through a spatial planning approach that coordinates the place-based impacts of sectoral policies and helps in the cross-fertilisation of policy making across policy silos. How can this experience inform the urban transition in the Pearl River Delta? Experience in Europe points to new institutions that are needed to reduce the costs arising from non-coordination. Spatial planning must engage a wide range of stakeholders to build trust and ownership of a shared strategy. Plans need to be adaptive in the face of great uncertainty. These prerequisites for more effective territorial governance present a huge challenge for both Chinese and European policy makers.

Adaptation
Cross-fertilisation
Spatial planning
Territorial governance

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:fd30cc27-4e45-4c3f-863a-f41a8fa6eea2

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89828-1_4

Springer, Cham

978-3-030-89827-4

Adaptive Urban Transformation: Urban Landscape Dynamics, Regional Design and Territorial Governance in the Pearl River Delta, China (1)

Urban Book Series, 2365-757X, Part F737

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© 2023 V. Nadin, Meng Meng