WG 14.1: WG Urban Governance - Session I

Time: Wednesday, 25/Jun/2008: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Session Chair: Isa Baud
Session Title: Urban Service Provision: Exclusion, Contestation or Partnerships?

Presentations

Institutional and Consumer Contestations over Water: Case of Chennai Metro Area
N. Sridharan
School of Planning and Architecture, India

Energy and the Urban Poor: Where the Private Sector Fears to Tread
Joy S. Clancy
Department of Technology and Sustainable Development, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Inadequate Decentralization or Incapacitated Local Governments? An Explanation of Poor Urban Service Delivery in India
Babu Jacob
Centre for Management Development, Thiruvananthapuram, India


WG 14.2: WG Urban Governance - Session II

Time: Wednesday, 25/Jun/2008: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Session Chair: Isabelle Milbert
Session Title: Negotiating Urban Housing

Presentations

The Interactions between Government and Community Associations in Brazil: the Solidarity Credit Program for Housing Funding
Maria L. Malard and Jupira G. Mendonca
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil

Land Occupation and Management Plan for Areas of Conflict and of Environmental and Social Interest in Santo Andre, within the Metropolitan Region of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Francisco de Assis Comarú1, Giselle M. Tanaka2, Juan C. Cristaldo2, Ricardo Sousa Moretti1, Margareth M. Uemura2, Rosana Denaldi2, Sebastião N. Vaz2, Jeroen Klink1 and Gabriel Tashima1
1Federal University of ABC Region, Brazil; 2Municipality of Santo Andre, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Une politique durable de l'habitat: le cas du Chili
Marlene A. Simeon
I.R.G.E.I., Université Paris II-Assas, France

Negotiating Urban Housing: Rights, Vulnerabilities and Resilience
Yvonne A. Coker
University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Land use, Land Allocation and the Environment in Kumasi and its Peri-Urban Communities of Ghana
Sampson E. Edusah
Bureau of Integrated Rural Development (BIRD), Ghana


WG 14.3: WG Urban Governance - Session III

Time: Thursday, 26/Jun/2008: 2:00pm - 4:30pm
Session Chair: Berit Aasen
Session Title: Markets, Conflicts and Environmental Management in Urban Governance    

Presentations

Les « gated communities » en Inde: la fermeture de l'espace urbain, à l'interface entre politiques publiques et appropriation privée
Isabelle Milbert
Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies (IHEID)

Labour-oriented Participatory Approaches as Instruments of Urban Governance
Edmundo Werna and Carlien van Empel
International Labour Office, Switzerland

Informal Activities, Environmental Issues and Urban Sustainable Development: Representations, Discourses, Practices and Conflicts in Some West African Cities
Jean-Fabien Steck
Université de Paris 10-Nanterre / GEMDEV, France

Lorsque les discours ne s’emboîtent pas ! De la prise en compte du découpage spatio-temporel de la ville pour une plus grande pertinence de l’information
Frederique Jacob
Université de Provence, France

Beyrouth : Mondialisation et conflit urbain
Fabrice Balanche
Université Lyon 2, France

La gouvernance dans les projets d’équipements marchands en Afrique
Benjamin Michelon
EPFL, Suisse