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Rocco, Roberto (author), Bracken, G. (author), Newton, C.E.L. (author), Dabrowski, M.M. (author)The complexity and interconnectedness of the urban challenges of today demand integrated and innovative approaches to the planning and design of sustainable, fair, and inclusive cities and regions. This, in turn, requires us to challenge and rethink current planning practice and education. Future generations of planners and designers need...book chapter 2022
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Meng, M. (author), Dabrowski, M.M. (author), Stead, D. (author)The need to respond to increasing flood risk, climate change, and rapid urban development has shaped innovative policies and practices of spatial planning in many countries over recent decades. As an instrumental–technical intervention, planning is mainly used to improve the physical environment (through concepts such as regulating waterproof...book chapter 2022
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Dabrowski, M.M. (author)This chapter sheds light on how planning is affected by multi-level (vertical) governance relations that shape an enabling environment for planning decisions and multi-actor (horizontal) governance aspects which are crucial for integrating planning with other policy agendas and effectively engaging citizens and other stakeholders in decision...book chapter 2022
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Dabrowski, M.M. (author), Stead, D. (author), Mashhoodi, B. (author)EU cohesion policy, supporting a variety of projects that support regional economic development and contribute to betterment of quality of life, can be considered as a tool that is contributing to the development of a ‘sense of community’ among the EU citizens and shaping the perceptions of the EU. By investing in projects across the European...book chapter 2020
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Meng, M. (author), Dabrowski, M.M. (author), Chan, Faith (author), Stead, D. (author)Many Chinese cities are increasingly exposed to the impacts of climate change, particularly to flooding. The National Sponge City Program was set up to address this challenge. This chapter examines how municipal interventions in spatial planning have been formulated in response to this national program. The case of Guangzhou is examined, a mega...book chapter 2018
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Dabrowski, M.M. (author), Chan, Faith (author), Meng, M. (author)The cities of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) have been experiencing an unprecedented urban expansion for the past four decades, leading to emergence of one of the most populous and dynamic urban regions. However, these rapidly expanding cities located in a low-lying delta area also face increasing flood risk due to a combination of anthropogenic...conference paper 2021
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Dabrowski, M.M. (author)Cities are the main culprits in terms of carbon emissions. It is in cities that the effects of climate change, from heat stress, to damage and casualties brought by extreme weather, to coastal flooding, are the most acutely felt. But cities are also where technological, environmental, economic, social, and political innovations needed to...conference paper 2021
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Meng, M. (author), Dabrowski, M.M. (author)Based on the framework of governance adapted from the work of Patsy Healey and drawing on the case of Guangzhou, which is regarded as the most vulnerable city in China to flooding and waterlogging, this paper adds to the literature on urban climate change adaptation. It does so by shedding light on the history of the city’s struggle against the...conference paper 2016
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Dabrowski, M.M. (author), Stead, D. (author), Yu, Feng (author), He, J. (author)In some of the delta cities which are the most exposed to flooding caused by climate change - like Shenzhen and Guangzhou investigated in this paper - there is surprisingly little recognition of this problem and hardly any action is taken to address it. This paper draws on the insights from these two cases to address the following research...conference paper 2016
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- Blanc, F. (author), Cotella, Giancarlo (author), Dabrowski, M.M. (author) contribution to periodical 2023
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Dabrowski, M.M. (author)In the context of a severe economic crisis and austerity, new ideas were put forward to reform cohesion policy to enhance its effectiveness and the return on investment. Among them, financial engineering instruments, such as JESSICA, expected to offer a means to ‘do more with less’ in this difficult budgetary context. In the case of such...journal article 2015
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Tajuddin, N.A. (author), Dabrowski, M.M. (author)Addressing climate change adaptation in the cities of the Global South is crucial as they are the most at risk and, arguably, the least capable of coping with it due to their rapid expansion, informal development, and limited institutional capacity. This paper explores this challenge in the case of Chennai, India, a city which, in recent years,...journal article 2021
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Dabrowski, M.M. (author)As academics, we must debate our research with peers, build on the existing body of research to address knowledge gaps and contribute to developing knowledge and theories that help us make sense of the increasingly complex and uncertain processes that shape regional and urban futures. We are also increasingly expected to step out of the ‘ivory...journal article 2023
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Newton, C.E.L. (author), Yu, Hsinko Cinco (author), Czischke, D.K. (author), Bracken, G. (author), Goncalves, J. E. (author), Höller, L. (author), Dabrowski, M.M. (author), Qu, L. (author), Rooij, R.M. (author), Rocco, Roberto (author), Viseu Cardoso, Rodrigo (author), Chereni, S.C. (author), Balz, Verena Elisabeth (author)Based on the understanding of the built environment as result of competing claims on space that must be resolved via recognition, fair distribution of burdens and benefits of our human association, respect and care for the planet and just procedures to decide on those claims, Spatial Planning and Strategy is a chair in the Department of Urbanism...journal article 2023
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Heurkens, E.W.T.M. (author), Dabrowski, M.M. (author)Circular economy (CE), the new ‘buzzword’ in urban and regional studies and policy debates, is about shifting from a linear production process towards a circular one in which the generation of waste is minimised, materials circulate in ‘closed loops’, and waste is not considered a burden but rather a resource that brings new economic...journal article 2021
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Meng, M. (author), Dabrowski, M.M. (author), Xiong, L. (author), Stead, D. (author)Given the greater risk of flooding in cities due to climate change, spatial planning systems are increasingly expected to contribute to flood resilience. However, incorporating expanded adaption measures in conventional planning practices remains a major challenge due to institutional barriers. Based on the theories of historical...journal article 2022
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Dabrowski, M.M. (author), Stead, D. (author), Mashhoodi, B. (author)By investing in the development of European territories, EU Cohesion Policy can be expected to have a positive impact on the citizens' views on the European Union. Whether and how the policy actually affects what people think about the EU remains unclear. This paper explores a range of regional determinants of EU image, from socio-economic to...journal article 2019
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Meng, M. (author), Dabrowski, M.M. (author), Stead, D. (author)The paper examines the development of different spatial plans to address flood resilience in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, one of the most vulnerable cities to flooding and climate change. The analysis focuses on the differences in planning procedures and planning mandates (determined by different plans in authority) before and after the launch...journal article 2019
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Dabrowski, M.M. (author)Adapting to climate change in the urban setting requires cooperation across scales, levels of government, organisational boundaries and policy sectors. The study presented in the paper explores governance of urban adaptation policies through the conceptual lens of multi-level governance and boundary spanning. It focuses on the South Wing of the...journal article 2017
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Dabrowski, M.M. (author), Lingua, V. (author)In a context where European integration is put into question, under the weight of external (migration, safety issues, economic) and centrifugal forces (Brexit, growing Euroscepticism), European spatial planning has been somewhat sidelined in the debates on the European Union’s goals, cohesion and future. This special issue aims to contribute...journal article 2018