Climate Urbanisation: Climate Strategies and Extended Urbanisation
| Dates: | 26 February 2026 |
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| Times: | 15:00 - 17:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Manchester Urban Institute |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Marco Palma |
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The accelerating impacts of global warming render planetary urbanisation lenses particularly compelling for analysing how municipal climate strategies produce effects extending into rural hinterlands and regional territories. Municipal climate strategies are increasingly deployed as critical policy instruments in response to climate crises. Yet contemporary scholarship reveals a significant blind spot: whilst extensive research examines municipal climate governance, few investigations examine how these strategies reshape territorial urbanisation patterns beyond municipal administrative boundaries.
To what extent do municipal climate strategies produce new patterns of extended urbanisation?
To examine the municipal climate strategies beyond administrative boundaries, the concept of extended urbanisation provides a compelling theoretical entry point. In Brenner and Schmid’s dialectical formulation, extended urbanisation encompasses transformations in territories located far beyond densely populated centres, designed to support everyday functions and socio?economic dynamics of urban agglomerations.
Marco Palma is a researcher at the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland. His primary research interests focus on the social dimensions of the climate crisis, with particular emphasis on the role of institutional actors, corporations, and social movements in shaping the political agenda in the era of global warming. Marco’s work investigates how local governance processes, urbanisation dynamics, and the production of urban space intersect with climate action and environmental policymaking.
Speaker
Marco Palma
Role: Visiting Researcher
Organisation: MUI / SUPSI
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