Abstract submission

Prospective participants should submit a 200-250 word abstract, in English, by January 15, 2024, to the IGU Commission Geography of Governance

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Submit the abstract form, by e-mail, to:

       Carlos Nunes Silva

           IGU Commission Geography of Governance

       E-mail: igu.geogov@gmail.com

35th International Geographical Congress – Dublin 2024

Call for Abstracts (deadline 12.01.2024): https://igc2024dublin.org/call-for-abstracts/

Abstracts must be submitted to sessions associated with IGU Commissions (full list here: https://igc2024dublin.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IGC-2024-Sessions-02.10.23.pdf).

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Session title: "Local and urban governance: trends, challenges and innovations in a world of difference"

Session organizer & chair: Carlos Nunes Silva, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Session Abstract: Local government is of prime importance for the sustainability and resilience of cities and other human settlements. Hence, the study of local governance has been central in the study of cities and other human settlements in the last decades. And in doing so, geographers have been confronted with a world of difference, in the problems with which cities and other settlements are confronted, but also in way they have been governed. This pattern of difference, in the problems and in the responses of local government, has been painted in the 21st century by new challenges, including those associated with the response of local government to emergencies, such as the pandemic, to climate change, to sea-land interface and marine areas, among others. The session aims to explore the changes, challenges, and innovations, both institutional and social, confronting, in different ways, the governance of cities and other human settlements worldwide.  We invite abstracts that concern various aspects of local government institutional reforms and governance transformations, particularly those concerned with the new challenges of the 21st century. Papers submitted to this Session can be focused, but not limited, to the following themes or issues:

1.  Institutional reforms in local governance

2.  Centralization and decentralization trends

3.  Governance and spatial planning

4.  The responses of local governance to the global climate emergency

5.  Local governance and planning of coastal and maritime areas

6.  Local governance and the post-pandemic

This session ("Local and urban governance: trends, challenges and innovations in a world of difference") is sponsored by the IGU Commission on Geography of Governance.