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The International ICLEI Urban Research Symposium, or Researchers’ Symposium for short, is a multiple-day event which is integrated into every ICLEI World Congress. The motivation behind the Symposium This Researchers’ Symposium, the 4th in ICLEI’s 25-year history, brings together leading urban sustainability researchers to present on topics in international policy making and sustainable de-velopment. Interested researchers were invited to submit abstracts on one of four themes:

• Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals at the urban level• Urban Nexus and inter-sectoral approaches to urban sustainable development• Monitoring, Reporting, and Verifying – Performance driven urban sustainability• Think tanks for cities

ICLEI has partnered with the Centre for Sustainable Community Development at Simon Fras-er University (Burnaby, Canada), Pando | Sustainable Communities, Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, and the Seoul Institute to lead this series of researcher-based dialogues.

Researchers’ Symposium

The ICLEI Researchers’ Symposium

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Thank You to the Seoul Institute!

ICLEI would like to thank the Seoul Institute, the host institution for the 4th International ICLEI Urban Research Symposium, for their gracious hospitality.

The Seoul Institute is a research think tank which is integrated into the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG). Established in 1992, its goal is to establish a medium to long-term vision for Seoul through the proposal of social policies on welfare, culture, education, industry, urban management, city planning, transportation, safety, and the environment. It accomplishes this by making municipal administration more efficient and effective through the performance of targeted professional research.

Seoul has experienced the most rapid development in world history, and is now in a unique position to share its diverse urban development knowledge and technical know-how. Moving forwards, the Seoul Institute would like to take on a role as an international ‘Solution Bank’, providing customized solutions to interested local governments.

The Seoul Institute is will be holding a ‘mobile workshop’ of its operations on 10 April, 2015.

As a driving force in Seoul’s urban transformation, the Seoul Institute will present on the effec-tiveness of integrated city think tank institutions in informing and influencing cities. The Seoul Institute will also present Seoul Vision 2030, its overarching urban planning document, and highlight the Seoul Institute’s innovative framework for cooperating on urban issues in East Asia within the Megacities Think Tank Alliance (MeTTA).

For further information on the Seoul Institute, please click here.

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Pando and Local Environment

ICLEI is a partner of Pando.sc, an online community with a pro-fessional focus. Pando provides an online space for research-ers, academics, and public and private-sector practitioners to share knowledge, network, and collaborate on sustainability solutions that can be enacted at the community level.

Pando was launched globally in June 2012 at the 3rd Interna-tional ICLEI Urban Research Symposium, held at the 2012 ICLEI World Congress

All attendees of the ICLEI Researchers’ Symposium, as well as those of the greater World Congress, are encouraged to join the community on pando.sc.

Mark Roseland Professor, Simon Fraser University Director, Pando

Eco-City Frameworks at a Crossroads: Developing Requirements for International Eco-City and Sustainable Neighbourhood Standards (co-presented with Maria Spiliotopoulou)

Dr. Mark Roseland is Professor of Planning in the graduate School of Resource and Environmental Management and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Community Development at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Author of the best-selling book Toward Sustainable Communities: Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments, he is leading development of Pando | Sustainable Communities, an international collaboration network for sustain-able communities researchers and practitioners.

The ICLEI Researchers’ Symposium is also being held with in partnership with Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability.

A call for paper submissions to Local Environment will occur following the Symposium. All submissions will be subject to an independent referee process.

Information regarding the length and deadline for submissions will be communicated to Researchers’ Symposium participants in the period of time following the ICLEI World Congress.

ICLEI would like to make a special thank you to Mark Roseland, who in addition to presenting in the Researchers’ Symposium, served as Program Coordinator.

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Program Schedule

April

08Session 1

9:00 - 15:00

Lightning Talks and Group DiscussionMonitoring, Reporting, and Verifying: Performance

Driven Sustainability & Think Tanks for Cities

09:00 - 09:30

09:30 - 09:40

09:45 - 09:55

10:00 - 10:10

10:15 - 10:25

10:30 - 10:50

10:50 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:10

11:15 - 11:25

11:25 - 11:35

11:35 - 11:45

11:50 - 12:00

12:05 - 12:15

12:30 - 13:30

13:30 - 13:40

13:45 - 13:55

14:00 - 14:10

14:15 - 15:00

Opening

Youngkeun Song, Seoul National University3D measurement of urban greenness implications for local landscape management

Nam Cheol Baik, Korea Institute of Construction TechnologyPublic involvement for green transport and walkable streets in South Korea

John Dagevos, Telos Centre for Sustainable Development (Tilburg) The Telos approach in measuring local sustainability

Katleen de Flander, IASS Potsdam Urban pressure points

Mark Roseland & Maria Spiliotopoulou, Simon Fraser UniversityEco-City Frameworks at a crossroads: Developing international standards

Break

Raul Alberto Marino, University of Melbourne The impacts of urban form on energy & GHG emissions in Metropolitan Melbourne

David Galloway, Ferart (Australia)Place, identity, and design process: Towards the regenerative city

Vanessa Rauland, Curtin UniversityEvaluating Urban Productivity: Designing precinct-scale green infrastructure

Giles Thomson, Curtin UniversityThe Productive City and its parts: Urban fabric and urban footprint

Claire Freeman, University of OtagoChildren’s experiences of urban biodiversity and water

Ticiane Rossi, University of São PauloWaste from eucalyptus wood steaming as a natural dye for textiles

Lunch

Youngah Guahk, IN-EAST (Duisburg-Essen University)Multi-level governance in creating a Smart city: ‘Songdo International City’

Hayati Sari Hasibuan, University of IndonesiaImproving eco-mobility through Transit Oriented Development in Jabodetabek

Marc Wolfram, Yonsei UniversityDriving urban sustainability innovations: From think tanks to urban transition labs

Discussion

Venue: Seoul

City Hall,CitizensRoom

April

09Session

of Interest17:30 - 19:00

Sub-Plenary SessionPartnerships: The Power of Linking Research to Practice

Venue: DDP,

International Conference

Room

This sub-plenary session will investigate promising solutions for city-researcher collaboration.

For further information, please click here.

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Program Schedule

Venue: Seoul

City Hall,CitizensRoom

Remaining researchers will reflect upon the proceedings of the Symposium and Congress, and discuss opportunities for further communication and collaboration.

Please contact urban.research@iclei.org if you are interested in attending.

April

11Session 2

9:00 - 13:00

Lightning Talks and Group DiscussionInter-sectoral approaches to sustainable urban development

& implementing SDG’s at the urban level

09:00 - 09:10

09:15 - 09:25

09:30 - 09:40

09:45 - 09:55

10:00 - 10:10

10:10 - 10:20

10:25 - 10:35

10:40 - 10:50

10:55 - 11:05

11:10 - 11:20

11:25 - 11:35

11:40 - 11:50

11:55 - 12:05

12:05 - 13:00

Daniel Kim, Green Technology Center (Republic of Korea)Socio-technical transition and city-to-city (C2C) cooperation among Green Cities

Gerhard Stryi-Hipp, ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy SystemsNew tools for the development of Sustainable Energy Systems for Cities & Regions

Jessica Pineda-Zumaran, United Nations University (Tokyo)Urban sustainable development issues of Peruvian planning practitioners

Mahesti Okitasari, United Nations University (Tokyo)Lessons from implementing sustainable development polices in Indonesian cities

Sean Connelly, University of OtagoOur Food Network Dunedin: Alternative food initiative or alternative food movement?

Break

Lai Choo Malone-Lee, Centre for Sustainable Asian CitiesSupporting the growth-wellbeing nexus in sustainable development

Fouad Khan, WWF & Luc Hoffman Institute ‘Nudging’ the city: Analysis of leverage points for reduction of urban footprint

Corrine Cash, African Climate Finance HubFinancing infrastructure in African cities

Jing Gan, Tongji University Relationship between urban biodiversity and land use in central Shanghai

Steffen Lauf, Technische Universität BerlinHuman-environmental interactions to promote sustainable urban futures in Berlin

Nieves Nazaret Pérez García, TRAGSA Group (Spain)Sustainable mobility governance challenges in Spain

Amelia Clarke, University of WaterlooImplementing sustainable community plans

Discussion

Venue: DDP,

DesignSeminarRoom 1

April

12Session 3

14:00 - 16:00Group Discussion

(non-mandatory)

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Venue Information

DDP, Dongdaemun Design PlazaD281, Eulji-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul 100-197Website: www.ddp.or.krThe Researchers’ Symposium sessions on Saturday 11 April, Sunday 12 April, and the sub-plenary session on Thursday 9 April will all be held in the DDP (main conference venue).

Please click on the map for detailed directions

Seoul City Hall110, Sejong-daero, Jung-gu, SeoulThe opening session of the Researchers’ Symposium on Wednesday 8 April will be held in Seoul City Hall.

Please click on the map for detailed directions

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Participant Biographies

Nieves Nazaret Pérez García Senior Consultant, TRAGSA Group (Spain)

Sustainable mobility governance challenges in Spain

Nazaret Perez provides legal and technical support at the TRAGSA Group, where she participates in a working group on the urban environment. Prior to this, she was a legal and technical advisor for the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Envi-ronment, wherein she provided extenstive support to the elabora-tion process of the Spanish strategy for sustainable mobility.

For further detail on Nieves Nazaret’s work, please click here.

Raul Alberto MarinoPhD Researcher & Lecturer, University of Melbourne

Assessing the impacts of urban form on the energy and GHG emissions in Metropolitan Melbourne: A bottom-up typology approach

Mr. Marino is an architect and urban planner with working expe-rience in Informal Settlements upgrading in Bogota, Medellin, Ad-dis Ababa and Nairobi. He served as a researcher and Assistant Professor in Urban Design in the Universidad de La Salle, Bogota, Colombia, and is currently a PhD Researcher in Urban Energy at the University of Melbourne and CSIRO.

Marc Wolfram Associate Professor, Yonsei University (Seoul)

Driving urban sustainability innovations: From planning think tanks to urban transition labs.

Marc Wolfram is associate professor at the Department of Urban Planning and Engineering, Yonsei University, where he leads the Urban Sustainability Transitions Lab.

Ticiane RossiPost-doctoral Student, University of São Paulo

Waste from eucalyptus wood steaming as a natural dye for textiles

Ticiane is a postdoctoral student at the University of São Paulo, in the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities. She has studied natural dyes from forest residues for textile application since 2003.

ICLEI & the Seoul Institute are pleased to introduce the participants of the Researchers’ Symposium

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Maria SpiliotopoulouPhD Researcher, Simon Fraser University

Eco-City Frameworks at a Crossroads: Developing Requirements for International Eco-City and Sustainable Neighbourhood Standards (co-presented with Mark Roseland)

Maria is a researcher at Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Sus-tainable Community Development and Doctoral Student at SFU’s School of Resource and Environmental Management.

For further detail on Maria’s work, please click here.

Jing GAN Lecturer, Tongji University (China)

Relationship between urban biodiversity and land use in high-den-sity urbanized areas: Case Study of Centre Shanghai

GAN Jing is Lecturer at the College of Architecture and Urban Plan-ning,,Tongji University, is the assistant Director of Green Campus Committee, China Green Building Council and was part of the sustainable planning team of World Expo 2010 in Shanghai.

Steffen LaufPost Doctoral Researcher, Technische Universität Berlin

Understanding human environmental interactions to promote sustainable urban futures: The case of Berlin

Steffen is a post-doctoral researcher at the Geoinformation in En-vironmental Planning Lab of the Technische Universität Berlin and focuses on human environmental interactions in urban regions.

For further detail on Steffen’s work, please click here.

Katleen de Flander Research Fellow,Institute for Advanced Sustainability Solutions - Potsdam

Urban Pressure Points

Katleen is an architect who works as a research fellow at the IASS on radical approaches for urban systems transformation.

For further detail on Katleen’s work, please click here.

Hayati Sari HasibuanProgram Secretary, University of Indonesia

Improving Eco-Mobility through Transit Oriented Development: The Case of Jabodetabek

Hayati Sari Hasibuan is the Secretary of the Environmental Science Program at the University of Indonesia, and was part of the team who prepared the Indonesia’s 5 year Development plan, 2015-2020.

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David GallowayDirector, Ferart (Australia)

Place, Identity and Design Process: Towards the Regenerative City(City of Canning Case Study with Vanessa Rauland & Giles Thomson)

David is a designer of sustainable developments working with people, organizations and governments using the development process to sustain and repair the environment, and create vibrant human communities.

For further detail on David’s work, please click here.

Giles ThomsonPhD Researcher, Curtin University

The Productive City and its Parts: Urban Fabric and Urban Footprint(City of Canning Case Study with Vanessa Rauland & David Galloway)

Giles is a Strategic Planner at the City of Canning, Perth, Australia and a Researcher in the Australian Co-operative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living through Curtin University.

Daniel Kim Researcher, Green Technology Center (South Korea)

Socio Technical Transition in Urban Context and City to City Cooperation (C2C) among Green Cities

Daniel Kim is a Researcher at Green Technology Center. He achieved his BS in Urban Planning from Cornell University and holds MPA in International Development from Tsinghua Universi-ty. His research interests are in Green Cities, Sustainable develop-ment, and technology transfer.

Sean Connelly Lecturer, University of Otago

Our Food Network Dunedin: Alternative food initiative or alternative food movement?

Sean is a lecturer in Geography at the University of Otago. His teaching and research interests are in sustainable community development and alternative food systems.

Vanessa Rauland Lecturer, Curtin University

Evaluating Urban Productivity: designing precinct-scale greeninfrastructure to enhance social, environmental and economic productivity(City of Canning Case Study with Giles Thomson & David Galloway)

Dr Vanessa Rauland is a Lecturer and Researcher at Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute, focusing on areas of climate policy and how to decarbonise cities, urban develop-ment, schools and prisons.

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Amelia ClarkeAssistant Professor, University of Waterloo

Implementing Sustainable Community Plans

Amelia Clarke is the Director of the Master of Environment and Business (MEB) executive education online program and a faculty member in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Develop-ment at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Her research is on implementing sustainable community plans / Local Agenda 21s.

For further detail on Amelia’s work, please click here.

Jessica Pineda-ZumaranPostdoctoral Research Fellow, United Nations University (Tokyo)

The thinking on urban sustainable development issues of Peruvian planning practitioners: origins and implications

Jessica is a postdoctoral researcher at UNU-IAS and was a urban planner in Peru with more than 10 years of experience working with local governments.

Lai-Choo Malone-LeeDirector, Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities

Supporting the growth-wellbeing nexus in sustainable development

Dr. Malone-Lee is Director of the Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities at the National University of Singapore. She is a scholar on urban issues, with research interest in urban sustainability, focusing on its nexus with development, sustainable growth and city culture.

Youngah Guahk Doctoral Researcher & Research Fellow, IN-EAST, Duisburg-Essen University

Multi-level Governance in creation of a smart city in South Korea: The case of ‘Songdo International city’

Youngah Guahk is a doctoral researcher and research fellow in the research group “Political Innovations in East Asian Cities” at IN-EAST school of advanced studies, Duisburg-Essen University in Germany.

Gerhard Stryi-HIppCoordinator (Smart Energy Cities),Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE

New Tools for the Roadmap Development of Sustainable Energy Systems for Cities and Regions

Gerhard Stryi-Hipp coordinates the activities of Fraunhofer ISE, the largest solar energy research institute in Europe, on the devel-opment of sustainable energy systems for cities and regions and is member of the Seoul International Energy Advisory Committee.

For further detail on Gerhard’s work, please click here.

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Nam Cheol Baik Research Fellow, Korea Institute of Construction Technology

Public involvement for green transport and walkable streets in South Korea

Nam Cheol is a Research Fellow at Korea Institute of Construction Technology who specializes in sustainable urban transport solutions.

Corrine Cash Senior Associate, African Climate Finance Hub

Financing Infrastructure in African Cities

Corrine Cash has a PhD in Urban Planning, and focuses on in-frastructure finance for sustainable cities. She is currently Senior Associate at the African Climate Finance Hub, and is based in Bonn, Germany.

John DagevosManaging Director, TelosAdjunct Professor, Simon Fraser UniversityDutch National Sustainability Monitor: The Telos approach in measuring local sustainability John studied regional economics, and is the managing director of Telos , Brabant Center for Sustainable Development of Tilburg University. He is currently developing a sustainability monitor for the Dutch Waddenregion, an UNESCO world heritage area.

For further detail on John’s work, please click here.

Fouad Muhammad Khan Urban Sustainable Development Fellow, WWF Luc Hoffman Institute

‘Nudging’ the city towards sustainability; analysis of leverage points for reduction of urban footprint

Dr. Fouad Khan is Urban Sustainability Fellow at WWF Luc Hoff-man Institute and is working on the next phase of the Earth Hour City Challenge.

Mahesti Okitasari Postdoctoral Research Fellow, United Nations University (Tokyo)

Rethinking the Sub-national Institutional Architecture and Agency for the Post-2015: What We Have Learned from the Implementation of Sustainable Development Policies in the Developing Countries (Case of Indonesian Cities)

Mahesti is the JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Research Fellow and is current-ly working with the Governance for Sustainable Development team.

Photo © C. Christophersen/UNU

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Youngkeun Song Research Professor, Seoul National University

Large-scale three dimensional measurement of urban greenness and its implication for the management of local landscape

Youngkeun is a Research Professor at Seoul National University who specializes in environmental management and urban biodiversity.

Claire Freeman Associate Professor, University of Otago

Children’s experiences of urban biodiversity and water

Claire is a planner at the University of Otago, New Zealand who specialising in researching environmental planning, particularly planning better environments for children and young people.

For further detail on Claire’s work, please click here.

ICLEI sincerely hopes that you enjoy the proceedings of the Researchers’ Symposium, the greater World Congress, and your time in the wonderful city of Seoul.