Category: Lan Use / Rural and Urban Development

Under the Land Use / Urban and Rural Development research area, IGCS focuses on urban expansion, particularly on the peri-urban fringes of cities and functional urban-rural interdependencies. Researchers seek to understand the drivers behind expansion and growth, the role of institutions and policies and how they interact with urban, suburban and rural aspirations, the social, economic and environmental impacts of peri-urban growth and how these processes are governed.

Dr Christoph Woiwode attended the International Sustainability Transitions (IST) Conference

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Last week, Dr. Christoph Woiwode attended the International Sustainability Transitions (IST) Conference. Christoph participated on Nov 21 in

Session 2: Track 1: Conference track: Sustainability Transitions in a Global Context | Dialogue session 202: Consolidating new research on transitions in the Global South (5:15pm – 6:45pm);

The recording can be found here: https://portalapp.consultus.eventsair.com/VirtualAttendeePortal/ist2022-conference/ist2022/

And presented a paper on Nov 22 in

Session 3: Track 4 : Governing transitions  (2:30pm – 4:00pm)

The link to paper presentation in IGCS websiteThe link to the paper on IGCS website

You can access the two files here:

Watch this video on YouTube.
Woiwode et al. (2022)_Identifying_Entry_Points_for_Adaptive_Governance_in_Periurban_Chennai

IGCS conducts a workshop on Agroecology: Exploring Food System Transformation in the Chennai Region

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As a result of our research in the Peri-Cene project and the Indo-German Dialogues on Green Urban Practices, we conducted a Workshop on “Agroecology: Exploring Food System Transformation in the Chennai Region” on Friday 26th August.

The event, funded by IGCS, was organized in collaboration with the Chennai Resilience Centre, Care Earth Trust, and the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Centre. More than 40 delegates gathered to exchange and share their views on periurban agriculture, urban gardening, and farming with the objective to identify options for how to create a network coalition for the metro-region of Chennai. Besides expert talks and interactive World Cafe sessions, we co-created a Nature Mandala and enjoyed folk music from Tamil Nadu related to farming.