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Simin Davoudi
Simin Davoudi is Professor of Environment Policy & Planning
at the School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape, Newcastle University
and the ‘Justice & Governance’ Theme Coordinator at
Newcastle Institute for Research on
Sustainability (NIReS).
She is past President of the
Association of the European Schools of Planning (AESOP),
elected member of the
Academy of Social Sciences,
member of the
UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Grant Assessment Panel C;
Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) Sub-Panel 16 (Architecture,
Built Environment and Planning); and DEFRA/DECC Social Science Expert Panel.
She has held visiting professorships at Universities of Amsterdam,
Karlskrona and Nijmegen; led the UK Office of Deputy Prime Minister’s
Planning Research Network; served as member of the
Department of Communities and Local Government’s Expert Panel on
Housing Markets and Planning Analysis; Research and Knowledge Committee
of the Royal Town Planning Institute; Expert Group for the EU DG Environment
(on Thematic Strategy on Sustainable Urban Management) and
DG Regional Policy (on Green paper on Territorial Cohesion),
the Irish and Austrian EU Presidency Seminars; is Advisory Group for the
UK ESPON Contact Point, Advisory Board of the
Irish Social Science Platform,
Departmental Advisory Council for University of Hong Kong,
Advisory Board of the BTH Swedish School of Planning,
Expert Advisory Group for the ex-post Evaluation of the
Interreg III (2006) programme.
She has undertaken peer reviews for the Government’s Chief Scientist’s
Foresight programme
and served on Expert Review Panels of national research programmes
in the Netherlands, Finland, Ireland, Germany, Sweden and Portugal;
was co-chair of ACSP-AESOP Chicago Joint Congress Committee; is the
Editor of Journal of Environmental Planning & Management,
founding member of the editorial team of
21st Century Society (former
Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences, and member of
editorial board of 10 international, peer-reviewed journals.
Her most recent books include:
Conceptions of Space and Place in Strategic Spatial Planning
(Routledge, 2009), and
Planning for Climate Change
(Earthscan, 2009).
Simin has undertaken research for a wide range of international and
national organisations and research funding bodies and is published widely.
Simin Davoudi was on the panel of the sustainable consumption debate
in 2008 and is on the panel of the debate on Environmental retreat at
Decline
and Fool: Changing Ideas in the Twenty Teens on 9th November 2013.
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Books by Simin Davoudi
Climate Change and Sustainable Cities by Hugo Priemus and Simin Davoudi
Climate change has demonstrated, perhaps more than any other environmental
concerns, the complexities of the human-nature interrelationship and the
need for embedding a far greater environmental consciousness into our
social values and norms. A drastic reduction in global greenhouse gas
emissions requires a transition to low carbon cities. This demands a
better understanding of the interactions between social, technical,
and spatial processes which constitute cities.
The aim of this book is to explore these interactions and urge urban
planners and other built environment professionals to revisit some of
their traditional concepts, methods, and ways of thinking about what
constitutes a ‘good’ city and according to whose priorities.
The book brings together nine contributions ranging from broad overviews
to sector-specific analysis, paying particular attention to the role of
urban planning. Contributors cover climate change mitigation and adaptation,
deal with different scales of analysis ranging from international and
European to national and city perspectives, and discuss a range of
policy sectors including housing, transport, energy, sea level rise
as well as pathways for climate policy implementation.
The diversity of the contributions is itself a reflection of the
multitude of climate change concerns that preoccupy researchers,
policy makers and practitioners.
Conceptions of Space and Place in Strategic Spatial Planning
by Simin Davoudi and Ian Strange
Bringing together authors from academia and practice, this book
examines spatial planning at different places throughout the
British Isles. Six illustrative case studies of practice examine
which conceptions of space and place have been articulated, presented
and visualized through the production of spatial strategies. Ranging
from a large conurbation (London) to regional (Yorkshire and Humber)
and national levels, the case studies give a rounded and grounded view
of the physical results and the theory behind them.
While there is widespread support for re-orienting planning towards
space and place, there has been little common understanding about what
constitutes ‘spatial planning’, and what conceptions of space and place
underpin it. This book addresses these questions and stimulates debate
and critical thinking about space and place among academic and
professional planners.
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