Issues in Megacities

The Roundtable on Megacities intends to bring together researchers and practitioners with a wide international experience in order to start a debate around major development and management challenges. Questions of urban violence, urban food security and employment will be referred to. The environmental dimension will be discussed from a multi-level governance perspective and consider, in particular, the growing conflicts between the green agenda (environmental) and the brown agenda (the fight against poverty).

Those topics will be analysed further in the three sessions of the urban governance Working Group scheduled on Wednesday 25 June and Thursday 26 June.

Chair:

Isa Baud
AMIDSt
The Netherlands

Speakers:

Paul Opoku-Mensah
Aalborg University
Denmark

N. Sridharan
School of Planning and Architecture
Delhi
India

Cynthia G. Gobin
CNRS
France

Isabelle Milbert
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Geneva
Switzerland

Organizer: EADI Working group on Urban Governance, Inter-regional Coordinating Committee of Development Associations (ICCDA)