Managing Change in Urbanizing Regions
Presentation at World Bank Urban Research Symposium, Marseille
2009-07-02
Chreod’s President, Edward Leman, presented a paper on 30 June in Marseille at the World Bank’s Fifth Urban Research Symposium 2009 on Cities and Climate Change: Responding to an Urgent Agenda. Mr. Leman’s paper — “Towards an Adaptation Strategy for Shanghai and the Yangtze Delta Region” — describes key development trends in Shanghai and the Yangtze Delta, the region’s exposure to severe climate events, potential impacts if trends continue, institutional constraints to the preparation and implementation of effective adaptation strategies, and recent experiments in regional governance that could be harnessed to overcome these constraints.