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Research article
Published: 17 January 2021 in Urban Studies
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Although the cities in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in China are amongst the world’s cities most exposed to flooding due to climate change, surprisingly little is done to address this problem. This article explores the barriers to the emergence of policies adapting to the growing flood risk in two PRD cities, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, underlining the importance of the Chinese territorial governance system for adaptive capacity at the local level. Focusing on institutions, ideas and interests as a heuristic device, the article contributes to the literature on urban climate adaptation and the nexus of spatial planning and flood risk management by exploring why and how the development of the adaptive capacity of cities is hampered, despite an urgent need for it.

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Marcin Dąbrowski; Dominic Stead; Jinghuan He; Feng Yu. Adaptive capacity of the Pearl River Delta cities in the face of the growing flood risk: Institutions, ideas and interests. Urban Studies 2021, 1 .

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Marcin Dąbrowski, Dominic Stead, Jinghuan He, Feng Yu. Adaptive capacity of the Pearl River Delta cities in the face of the growing flood risk: Institutions, ideas and interests. Urban Studies. 2021; ():1.

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Marcin Dąbrowski; Dominic Stead; Jinghuan He; Feng Yu. 2021. "Adaptive capacity of the Pearl River Delta cities in the face of the growing flood risk: Institutions, ideas and interests." Urban Studies , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 06 October 2020 in Regional Studies
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Vincent Nadin; Dominic Stead; Marcin Dąbrowski; Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado. Integrated, adaptive and participatory spatial planning: trends across Europe. Regional Studies 2020, 55, 791 -803.

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Vincent Nadin, Dominic Stead, Marcin Dąbrowski, Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado. Integrated, adaptive and participatory spatial planning: trends across Europe. Regional Studies. 2020; 55 (5):791-803.

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Vincent Nadin; Dominic Stead; Marcin Dąbrowski; Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado. 2020. "Integrated, adaptive and participatory spatial planning: trends across Europe." Regional Studies 55, no. 5: 791-803.

Review
Published: 23 September 2020 in Sustainability
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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 facades of architecture, setting buffering zones, and designing green–blue corridors). However, the implementation of the proposed physical interventions is often challenging and necessitates assistance from practices such as climate assessment, policy disciplines, civil societies, and economic resources. These extensive perspectives have spawned many new research domains in the realm of spatial planning. This paper provides a review of the recent developments in flood resilience, risk management, and climate adaptation; based on this, it positions planning research and practice within these works of literature. Four clusters of thought are identified, mainly in the European and American scholarship of the last two decades. They are environmental concerns, disaster management concerns, socio-economic concerns, and institutional concerns. Current planning research concentrates on disaster management in the underlying belief that planning is functionally efficient. The attention to environmental concerns, socio-economic concerns, and institutional concerns of planning research remains insufficient but has been growing. This, in turn, enlarges the scope of planning research and indicates future directions for study. These new concerns relate to spatial planning’s ability to operate effectively in a multi-sectoral setting, despite limited resources and in the face of uncertain risk.

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Meng Meng; Marcin Dabrowski; Dominic Stead. Enhancing Flood Resilience and Climate Adaptation: The State of the Art and New Directions for Spatial Planning. Sustainability 2020, 12, 7864 .

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Meng Meng, Marcin Dabrowski, Dominic Stead. Enhancing Flood Resilience and Climate Adaptation: The State of the Art and New Directions for Spatial Planning. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (19):7864.

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Meng Meng; Marcin Dabrowski; Dominic Stead. 2020. "Enhancing Flood Resilience and Climate Adaptation: The State of the Art and New Directions for Spatial Planning." Sustainability 12, no. 19: 7864.

Articles
Published: 01 September 2020 in European Planning Studies
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EU Cohesion Policy has arguably the most tangible impact on the citizens’ environment and livelihoods and can potentially boost their attachment to the European project. Beyond the cross-national transactionalist hypothesis, Cohesion Policy spending has a local impact and may affect the lives of citizens who do not benefit directly from cross-national transactions, like education, work, investment and travel in other European countries. One could thus expect that Cohesion Policy has a significant positive impact on the ways in which citizens perceive the EU. But what happens when a country is a net contributor to the EU’s budget receiving a relatively small amount of Cohesion Policy funding, the bulk of it being invested in poorer European territories? Building on the cases of two Dutch regions – Flevoland and Limburg – this paper investigates the extent to which the citizens are aware of Cohesion Policy interventions and how the features of communication on and implementation of Cohesion Policy affect this awareness.

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Marcin Dąbrowski; Marjolein Spaans; Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado; Roberto Rocco. Cohesion Policy and the citizens’ perceptions of the EU: the role of communication and implementation. European Planning Studies 2020, 29, 827 -843.

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Marcin Dąbrowski, Marjolein Spaans, Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado, Roberto Rocco. Cohesion Policy and the citizens’ perceptions of the EU: the role of communication and implementation. European Planning Studies. 2020; 29 (5):827-843.

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Marcin Dąbrowski; Marjolein Spaans; Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado; Roberto Rocco. 2020. "Cohesion Policy and the citizens’ perceptions of the EU: the role of communication and implementation." European Planning Studies 29, no. 5: 827-843.

Journal article
Published: 31 August 2020 in Urban Planning
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Planning practice in the Global South often defines a border between formal and informal developments ignoring the complex and nuanced reality of urban practices and, consequently, worsening segregation. This article proposes an alternative view of socio-spatial segregation that shifts the distinction between formal/informal towards one that emphasises access to opportunities and their relationship with the spatial structure of the city. Under this alternative framework, applied to the case of the Valle Amauta neighbourhood in Lima, Peru, we reflect on how socio-economic activities, shaped by spatial conditions and social practices, increase or reduce socio-spatial segregation. Our findings suggest that a shift towards strategies aimed at increasing accessibility to centrality, provided by the density of social and economic activities, could offer new opportunities for planning practice and theory in the Global South.

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Pablo Muñoz Unceta; Birgit Hausleitner; Marcin Dąbrowski. Socio-Spatial Segregation and the Spatial Structure of ‘Ordinary’ Activities in the Global South. Urban Planning 2020, 5, 303 -318.

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Pablo Muñoz Unceta, Birgit Hausleitner, Marcin Dąbrowski. Socio-Spatial Segregation and the Spatial Structure of ‘Ordinary’ Activities in the Global South. Urban Planning. 2020; 5 (3):303-318.

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Pablo Muñoz Unceta; Birgit Hausleitner; Marcin Dąbrowski. 2020. "Socio-Spatial Segregation and the Spatial Structure of ‘Ordinary’ Activities in the Global South." Urban Planning 5, no. 3: 303-318.

Journal article
Published: 21 December 2019 in Sustainability
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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 of the Sponge City Plan which calls for numerous spatial resilience measures to address the increasing flood risk. The analysis reveals that the introduction of the Sponge City Plan has changed the role of planning from onlooker to active participant in the arena of flood governance. In addition, new plans combine long-term strategic visions, soft principles, and strict regulations with an aim to promote concrete planning practice between multiple layers with a clear mandate. Despite these shifts, institutional and territorial challenges remain.

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Meng Meng; Marcin Dąbrowski; Dominic Stead. Shifts in Spatial Plans for Flood Resilience and Climate Adaptation: Examining Planning Procedure and Planning Mandates. Sustainability 2019, 12, 105 .

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Meng Meng, Marcin Dąbrowski, Dominic Stead. Shifts in Spatial Plans for Flood Resilience and Climate Adaptation: Examining Planning Procedure and Planning Mandates. Sustainability. 2019; 12 (1):105.

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Meng Meng; Marcin Dąbrowski; Dominic Stead. 2019. "Shifts in Spatial Plans for Flood Resilience and Climate Adaptation: Examining Planning Procedure and Planning Mandates." Sustainability 12, no. 1: 105.

Journal article
Published: 27 September 2019 in Urban Planning
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“Learning from abroad” is a widely recognised and used means to innovate and improve strategies and policies implemented by regions and cities. However, literature on knowledge transfer and related concepts, such as policy transfer, policy mobility or lesson-drawing, highlights the limitations of this process, especially when it entails the simple transfer of (best) practices from “place A” to “place B”. Such a transfer may lead to suboptimal solutions particularly when the imported practices concern complex phenomena, involving networks of multiple actors and relying on place-specific dynamics. Departing from this critique, the article sheds light on the process of knowledge transfer in the field of circular economy, taking place between the two metropolitan regions of Amsterdam and Naples. This process is guided by an innovative methodology based on a network of (peri-urban) living labs generating eco-innovative solutions for using material waste and wastescapes as a resource in peri-urban areas. Using participant observation in knowledge transfer workshops, stakeholder interviews and surveys, it investigates how the process of co-creation of knowledge in the relational space of the networked living labs takes place thanks to the participation of stakeholders from both regions. This in turn allows for drawing conclusions on what barriers are encountered in such knowledge transfer, what makes solutions transferable across different contexts, and, finally, how the solutions are adapted as they travel from one place to another.

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Marcin Dąbrowski; Viktor Varjú; Libera Amenta. Transferring Circular Economy Solutions across Differentiated Territories: Understanding and Overcoming the Barriers for Knowledge Transfer. Urban Planning 2019, 4, 52 -62.

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Marcin Dąbrowski, Viktor Varjú, Libera Amenta. Transferring Circular Economy Solutions across Differentiated Territories: Understanding and Overcoming the Barriers for Knowledge Transfer. Urban Planning. 2019; 4 (3):52-62.

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Marcin Dąbrowski; Viktor Varjú; Libera Amenta. 2019. "Transferring Circular Economy Solutions across Differentiated Territories: Understanding and Overcoming the Barriers for Knowledge Transfer." Urban Planning 4, no. 3: 52-62.

Original article
Published: 28 August 2019 in Regional Science Policy & Practice
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As a result of a combination of political and economic crises engulfing the European Union (EU) since 2008 has deteriorated considerably its image among the citizens, undermining its legitimacy and future. Cohesion Policy, providing funding for a variety of investment projects across the European territories that have a direct impact on the lives of the EU citizens, is one the key instruments at the disposal of the EU that could positively influence that image. But does it? The article probes the extent to which the regional performance in implementation of Cohesion Policy affected the perceptions of the EU before and after the apogee of the economic crisis to shed more light on the capacity of this policy shape the citizens’ EU identity across different European regions.

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Maciej Smętkowski; Marcin Dąbrowski. Economic crisis, Cohesion Policy and the eroding image of the European Union at the regional level. Regional Science Policy & Practice 2019, 11, 713 -732.

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Maciej Smętkowski, Marcin Dąbrowski. Economic crisis, Cohesion Policy and the eroding image of the European Union at the regional level. Regional Science Policy & Practice. 2019; 11 (4):713-732.

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Maciej Smętkowski; Marcin Dąbrowski. 2019. "Economic crisis, Cohesion Policy and the eroding image of the European Union at the regional level." Regional Science Policy & Practice 11, no. 4: 713-732.

Original article
Published: 28 August 2019 in Regional Science Policy & Practice
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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 territorial factors and the intensity of EU Cohesion Policy funding, based on the data available for 2008‐2015 period. It finds a positive relation between the size of the regional European Structural and Investment Funds’ allocation and less negative EU image, while highlighting how a declining regional economic situation fuels more negative views on the EU. It also reveals that lower level of education and higher migration have a strong influence on negative EU image, albeit only in some European regions.

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Marcin Dąbrowski; Dominic Stead; Bardia Mashhoodi. EU Cohesion Policy can't buy me love? Exploring the regional determinants of EU image. Regional Science Policy & Practice 2019, 11, 695 -711.

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Marcin Dąbrowski, Dominic Stead, Bardia Mashhoodi. EU Cohesion Policy can't buy me love? Exploring the regional determinants of EU image. Regional Science Policy & Practice. 2019; 11 (4):695-711.

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Marcin Dąbrowski; Dominic Stead; Bardia Mashhoodi. 2019. "EU Cohesion Policy can't buy me love? Exploring the regional determinants of EU image." Regional Science Policy & Practice 11, no. 4: 695-711.

Journal article
Published: 22 March 2019 in Environmental Science & Policy
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Integration of flood risk in spatial planning is increasingly seen as a way to enhance cities’ resilience to the growing flood hazards, albeit its operationalisation remains challenging. This study aims to explain the reasons for this difficulty through the case study of Guangzhou, a Chinese delta city that is highly vulnerable to coastal, fluvial and pluvial flooding, particularly in the context of a changing climate and rapid expansion of the urban fabric. It does so by investigating the recognition of flood risk in spatial planning and vice-versa, of spatial issues in the flood risk management field, using framing analysis. The paper reveals that the integration of flood risk concerns in spatial planning in Guangzhou remains an emerging process, gradually shifting from informal to formal activities grounded in legislation. This happens through percolation of framing discourse from the flood risk management policy to spatial planning, leading to changes in problem setting, action scripts and the prescribed governance arrangements in the planning discourse. The vagueness of governance arrangements, however, undermines the integration of flood risk management in spatial planning.

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Meng Meng; Marcin Dąbrowski; Yuting Tai; Dominic Stead; Faith Chan. Collaborative spatial planning in the face of flood risk in delta cities: A policy framing perspective. Environmental Science & Policy 2019, 96, 95 -104.

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Meng Meng, Marcin Dąbrowski, Yuting Tai, Dominic Stead, Faith Chan. Collaborative spatial planning in the face of flood risk in delta cities: A policy framing perspective. Environmental Science & Policy. 2019; 96 ():95-104.

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Meng Meng; Marcin Dąbrowski; Yuting Tai; Dominic Stead; Faith Chan. 2019. "Collaborative spatial planning in the face of flood risk in delta cities: A policy framing perspective." Environmental Science & Policy 96, no. : 95-104.

Regular articles
Published: 26 November 2018 in Europe-Asia Studies
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This article investigates EU–China dialogue on regional policy, a puzzling exercise in policy transfer because such policy is by its nature inward-oriented and the intricacies of regional development imply uncertainty about its effects in different contexts. The article sheds light on the reasons of both sides for engaging in this unlikely policy learning effort and identifies its actors and mechanisms. It also critically assesses this process, stressing its one-way nature and the active role of the EU as a ‘policy-sender’, in contrast to most policy transfer literature citing demands by the policy-recipient as the predominant reason to engage in such cooperation.

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Ida Musiałkowska; Marcin Dąbrowski. EU–China Regional Policy Dialogue: Unpacking the Mechanisms of an Unlikely Policy Transfer. Europe-Asia Studies 2018, 70, 1689 -1711.

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Ida Musiałkowska, Marcin Dąbrowski. EU–China Regional Policy Dialogue: Unpacking the Mechanisms of an Unlikely Policy Transfer. Europe-Asia Studies. 2018; 70 (10):1689-1711.

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Ida Musiałkowska; Marcin Dąbrowski. 2018. "EU–China Regional Policy Dialogue: Unpacking the Mechanisms of an Unlikely Policy Transfer." Europe-Asia Studies 70, no. 10: 1689-1711.

Articles
Published: 07 September 2018 in Planning Perspectives
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Focusing on three of the Central and Eastern European countries – Poland, Czech Republic, and Hungary – the paper investigates the evolution of spatial planning systems and the introduction of strategic planning practices from the beginning of the post-communist transition in the early 1990s to the present. It sheds new light on this issue by applying the conceptual lens of historical institutionalism to explain this process and elucidate the role of the accession to the European Union (EU) as a catalyst for change. In particular, the paper identifies and analyses the critical junctures at which path dependencies emerged and later constrained the capacity of the regional and local actors to adjust to the EU Cohesion Policy framework and engage in strategic planning as part of it.

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Marcin Dąbrowski; Katarzyna Piskorek. The development of strategic spatial planning in Central and Eastern Europe: between path dependence, European influence, and domestic politics. Planning Perspectives 2018, 33, 571 -589.

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Marcin Dąbrowski, Katarzyna Piskorek. The development of strategic spatial planning in Central and Eastern Europe: between path dependence, European influence, and domestic politics. Planning Perspectives. 2018; 33 (4):571-589.

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Marcin Dąbrowski; Katarzyna Piskorek. 2018. "The development of strategic spatial planning in Central and Eastern Europe: between path dependence, European influence, and domestic politics." Planning Perspectives 33, no. 4: 571-589.

Articles
Published: 24 August 2018 in Planning Perspectives
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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 to a deeper understanding of these dynamics by revisiting the history of European spatial planning – from its origins, gradual institutionalization to its current rolling back – by exploring it both at the European and the national level, stressing its difficulties and idiosyncrasies. The conceptual framework of historical institutionalism is used across the papers in an attempt to shed more light on this processes, through the analysis of critical junctures and path dependency of planning and cohesion agendas, transnational networks as well as changes to the national institutions and planning systems. This tightly woven collection of papers touches upon not only the underlying arguments for European cohesion, but also the questions about the future of European spatial planning as an ‘EU microcosm’ in light of current discussions concerning democratic credentials and legitimacy of the EU project as a whole.

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Marcin Dąbrowski; Valeria Lingua. Introduction: historical institutionalist perspectives on European spatial planning. Planning Perspectives 2018, 33, 499 -505.

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Marcin Dąbrowski, Valeria Lingua. Introduction: historical institutionalist perspectives on European spatial planning. Planning Perspectives. 2018; 33 (4):499-505.

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Marcin Dąbrowski; Valeria Lingua. 2018. "Introduction: historical institutionalist perspectives on European spatial planning." Planning Perspectives 33, no. 4: 499-505.

Contributors
Published: 20 July 2018 in Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities
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Deepika Andavarapu; Funda Atun; Osman Balaban; Francesc Baró; Emanuele Biagi; Daniele F. Bignami; Graham Brewer; Luca Sára Bródy; Alessia Canzian; Faith Ka Shun Chan; Lorenzo Chelleri; Donatella Cillo; Ratka Čolić; Angela Colucci; Marcin Dąbrowski; Sonja Deppisch; Catherine Dezio; Stephen Kofi Diko; David J. Edelman; Andrea Favaro; Giuseppe Forino; Adriana Galderisi; Bahar Gedikli; Gørild Heggelund; Giada Limongi; Marija Maruna; Meng Meng; Scira Menoni; Nagendra Monangi; Kwame Ntiri Owusu-Daaku; Giulia Pesaro; Isabel Ruiz-Mallen; Kalliopi Sapountzaki; Dominic Stead; Erica Treccozzi; Jason Von Meding. List of Contributors. Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities 2018, 1 .

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Deepika Andavarapu, Funda Atun, Osman Balaban, Francesc Baró, Emanuele Biagi, Daniele F. Bignami, Graham Brewer, Luca Sára Bródy, Alessia Canzian, Faith Ka Shun Chan, Lorenzo Chelleri, Donatella Cillo, Ratka Čolić, Angela Colucci, Marcin Dąbrowski, Sonja Deppisch, Catherine Dezio, Stephen Kofi Diko, David J. Edelman, Andrea Favaro, Giuseppe Forino, Adriana Galderisi, Bahar Gedikli, Gørild Heggelund, Giada Limongi, Marija Maruna, Meng Meng, Scira Menoni, Nagendra Monangi, Kwame Ntiri Owusu-Daaku, Giulia Pesaro, Isabel Ruiz-Mallen, Kalliopi Sapountzaki, Dominic Stead, Erica Treccozzi, Jason Von Meding. List of Contributors. Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities. 2018; ():1.

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Deepika Andavarapu; Funda Atun; Osman Balaban; Francesc Baró; Emanuele Biagi; Daniele F. Bignami; Graham Brewer; Luca Sára Bródy; Alessia Canzian; Faith Ka Shun Chan; Lorenzo Chelleri; Donatella Cillo; Ratka Čolić; Angela Colucci; Marcin Dąbrowski; Sonja Deppisch; Catherine Dezio; Stephen Kofi Diko; David J. Edelman; Andrea Favaro; Giuseppe Forino; Adriana Galderisi; Bahar Gedikli; Gørild Heggelund; Giada Limongi; Marija Maruna; Meng Meng; Scira Menoni; Nagendra Monangi; Kwame Ntiri Owusu-Daaku; Giulia Pesaro; Isabel Ruiz-Mallen; Kalliopi Sapountzaki; Dominic Stead; Erica Treccozzi; Jason Von Meding. 2018. "List of Contributors." Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities , no. : 1.

Book chapter
Published: 20 July 2018 in Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities
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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-city in the Pearl River Delta that is particularly vulnerable to flood risk. Here, the city government is seeking to improve local resilience to flooding by linking spatial planning and water management. To date, the implementation of the plan faces cognitive, financial, institutional, and technical challenges, which limits the potential to make Guangzhou more resilient to flood risk in the wake of the changing climate.

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Meng Meng; Marcin Dąbrowski; Faith Ka Shun Chan; Dominic Stead. Spatial Planning for Climate Adaptation and Flood Risk. Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities 2018, 153 -162.

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Meng Meng, Marcin Dąbrowski, Faith Ka Shun Chan, Dominic Stead. Spatial Planning for Climate Adaptation and Flood Risk. Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities. 2018; ():153-162.

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Meng Meng; Marcin Dąbrowski; Faith Ka Shun Chan; Dominic Stead. 2018. "Spatial Planning for Climate Adaptation and Flood Risk." Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities , no. : 153-162.

Journal article
Published: 01 June 2018 in Regional Studies
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Marcin Dąbrowski; Ida Musiałkowska; Laura Polverari. Introduction: drawing lessons from international policy-transfer initiatives in regional and urban development and spatial planning. Regional Studies 2018, 52, 1165 -1168.

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Marcin Dąbrowski, Ida Musiałkowska, Laura Polverari. Introduction: drawing lessons from international policy-transfer initiatives in regional and urban development and spatial planning. Regional Studies. 2018; 52 (9):1165-1168.

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Marcin Dąbrowski; Ida Musiałkowska; Laura Polverari. 2018. "Introduction: drawing lessons from international policy-transfer initiatives in regional and urban development and spatial planning." Regional Studies 52, no. 9: 1165-1168.

Journal article
Published: 19 March 2018 in Regional Studies
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The paper investigates the European Union (EU)–Brazil and EU–China regional policy dialogues, viewed as vectors of cross-national policy transfer. Regional policy is considered as having limited transfer potential due to its inward orientation, context specificity and complexity. Yet, knowledge exchange and voluntary policy transfer have taken place between the EU and Brazil and between the EU and China since the mid-2000s. The study investigates and compares actors, motivations, mechanisms of transfer, conditioning factors and types of outcomes, shedding a light on the under-researched phenomenon of international policy transfer in regional policy.

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Marcin Dąbrowski; Ida Musiałkowska; Laura Polverari. EU–China and EU–Brazil policy transfer in regional policy. Regional Studies 2018, 52, 1169 -1180.

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Marcin Dąbrowski, Ida Musiałkowska, Laura Polverari. EU–China and EU–Brazil policy transfer in regional policy. Regional Studies. 2018; 52 (9):1169-1180.

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Marcin Dąbrowski; Ida Musiałkowska; Laura Polverari. 2018. "EU–China and EU–Brazil policy transfer in regional policy." Regional Studies 52, no. 9: 1169-1180.

Research article
Published: 01 September 2017 in Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
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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 Randstad in The Netherlands, an urban region that is heavily exposed to the negative impacts of climate change, particularly to flooding, due to its location in the Rhine-Meuse delta and concentration of population and economic activity. Yet, it is also a region with strong traditions of cooperation and a track record of pioneering urban climate change measures. The study investigates how the features of the wider institutional context, in which this urban region operates shape the governance of urban adaptation policies and how the contextual factors constrain the scope for spanning horizontal, vertical and temporal boundaries needed for delivering those policies and making the cities of that region more climate-proof.

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Marcin Dąbrowski. Boundary spanning for governance of climate change adaptation in cities: Insights from a Dutch urban region. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 2017, 36, 837 -855.

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Marcin Dąbrowski. Boundary spanning for governance of climate change adaptation in cities: Insights from a Dutch urban region. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. 2017; 36 (5):837-855.

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Marcin Dąbrowski. 2017. "Boundary spanning for governance of climate change adaptation in cities: Insights from a Dutch urban region." Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 36, no. 5: 837-855.

Association news
Published: 01 June 2017 in Regions
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Marcin Dąbrowski. Report of the Ninth Workshop of the RSA Research Network on EU Cohesion Policy. Regions 2017, 307, 25 -27.

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Marcin Dąbrowski. Report of the Ninth Workshop of the RSA Research Network on EU Cohesion Policy. Regions. 2017; 307 (1):25-27.

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Marcin Dąbrowski. 2017. "Report of the Ninth Workshop of the RSA Research Network on EU Cohesion Policy." Regions 307, no. 1: 25-27.

Journal article
Published: 01 May 2017 in Progress in Planning
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Delta cities are increasingly exposed to the risks of climate change, particularly to flooding. As a consequence, a variety of new spatial development visions, strategies, plans and programmes are being developed by city governments in delta regions to address these risks and challenges. Based on a general conceptual framework, this paper examines the nature of visions, strategies, plans and programmes in the delta cities of Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Rotterdam which are highly exposed to flooding and connected through a network of epistemic communities. The paper follows two main lines of inquiry. First, it examines the terms, concepts, and dominant institutional characteristics associated with the development of these visions, strategies, plans and programmes as a way of constructing a conceptual framework for understanding and explaining their connectivity. Second, it explores how and why cities’ spatial plans and governance dynamics are shaping climate adaptation responses. The systematic development of conceptual frameworks and in-depth analyses of varied, representative case studies is needed as their findings have important implications for vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in terms of policy options and cities as the optimal level for adaptation. The paper finds that dominant institutional characteristics critically affect the steering capacity of organisations/agencies (including their coordination capacity) to address climate-related risks. The findings have important implications for vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in cities, in general and delta cities, in particular.

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Maria Francesch-Huidobro; Marcin Dabrowski; Yuting Tai; Faith Chan; Dominic Stead. Governance challenges of flood-prone delta cities: Integrating flood risk management and climate change in spatial planning. Progress in Planning 2017, 114, 1 -27.

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Maria Francesch-Huidobro, Marcin Dabrowski, Yuting Tai, Faith Chan, Dominic Stead. Governance challenges of flood-prone delta cities: Integrating flood risk management and climate change in spatial planning. Progress in Planning. 2017; 114 ():1-27.

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Maria Francesch-Huidobro; Marcin Dabrowski; Yuting Tai; Faith Chan; Dominic Stead. 2017. "Governance challenges of flood-prone delta cities: Integrating flood risk management and climate change in spatial planning." Progress in Planning 114, no. : 1-27.