Flooded with Expectations

Flooded with Expectations

This thesis addresses the complexity of increasing residents’ involvement in flood risk governance and reduces that complexity by conveying a greater understanding of residents’ perspectives.
(How) do flood-prone cities build resilience?

(How) do flood-prone cities build resilience?

Urban resilience is almost unanimously identified as an inherently positive guiding principle in the risk reduction policy field. However, limited attention is paid to the learning dimension of resilience-building.
Policy Design and Infrastructure Planning

Policy Design and Infrastructure Planning

This PhD research adopts a policy design perspective that revolves around the conscious effort of matching policy instruments to policy goals in order to attain desired outcomes.
Planning for Energy Transition

Planning for Energy Transition

This thesis highlights the value of an area-specific and associated decentralised approach to energy transition that emphasizes integration of policy and collaboration of actors and institutions into Chinese urban governance.
Urban Transition as a Result of Transport Investment

Urban Transition as a Result of Transport Investment

The Case Bus Rapid Transit Lahore Pakistan. This empirical research utilizes the actor relational approach to explore the complex association between transport, urban development, and economy and their interrelation in the context of Lahore, Pakistan.