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Biography

I am an Assistant Professor at the Chair of Spatial Planning and Research at the Department of Urbanism. My academic interests span across the disciplines of spatial planning and regional and urban studies. The topics I do research on include regional and urban development policies, urban climate change adaptation, waste management and circular economy, energy transition, (multi-level) governance or international policy transfer.

I graduated from Sciences Po in Paris and completed my PhD at the University of the West of Scotland. I worked as a researcher at the European Policies Research Centre (University of Strathclyde) and at the University of Vienna. I am actively involved in the activities of the Regional Studies Association (RSA), among others by coordinating the RSA Research Network on EU Cohesion Policy and acting as an editor of one of the RSA's journals - Regional Studies, Regional Science (RSRS).

Individual grants and awards: Urban Studies Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, RSA Early Career Grant, Urban Knowledge Network Asia grant, RSA Early Career Excellence Award.

EU-funded research: H2020 COHESIFY, H2020 REPAiR, ESPON COMPASS, Interreg Europe WaVE, ESPON Financial Instruments and Territorial Cohesion.

Projects

2019-2022: Interreg Europe WaVE;
2016-2019: Horizon 2020 REPAiR;
2017-2019: ESPON Financial Instruments and Territorial Cohesion;
2016-2018: ESPON COMPASS;
2016-2018: Horizon 2020 COHESIFY;
2013-2016: The governance of polycentric urban regions: responding to climate change challenges in the Randstad and the Pearl River Delta (Urban Studies Foundation’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship scheme);
2013-2015: Energy and Cohesion: Governance, Regulations and Negotiations (IDEX / Agence Nationale de Recherche grant).

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor at the Chair of Spatial Planning and Research at the Department of Urbanism. My academic interests span across regional, urban and policy studies and include such topics as regional and urban development policies, urban climate change adaptation, waste management and circular economy, energy transition, (multi-level) governance or international policy transfer.

I graduated from Sciences Po in Paris and completed my PhD at the University of the West of Scotland. I worked as a researcher at the European Policies Research Centre (University of Strathclyde) and as an assistant professor at the EIF, University of Vienna. I am actively involved in the activities of the Regional Studies Association (RSA), among others by coordinating the RSA Research Network on EU Cohesion Policy and acting as an editor or one of the RSA's journals - Regional Studies, Regional Science (RSRS).

Individual grants and awards: Urban Studies Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, RSA Early Career Grant, Urban Knowledge Network Asia grant, RSA Early Career Excellence Award.

EU-funded research: H2020 COHESIFY, H2020 REPAiR, ESPON COMPASS.

Expertise

Urban climate change adaptation
The nexus between spatial planning and flood risk management in cities
Circular economy
Knowledge transfer and policy mobility
Stakeholder engagement in planning
Regional and urban development
Sub-national government and multi-level governance
EU cohesion policy
Social acceptance issues in energy transition

Projects

2016-2018: ESPON COMPASS;
2016-2018: Horizon 2020 COHESIFY;
2016-2019: Horizon 2020 REPAiR;
2013-2016: The governance of polycentric urban regions: responding to climate change challenges in the Randstad and the Pearl River Delta (project funded with the Urban Studies Foundation’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship scheme);
2013-2015: Governance and spatial dimensions of the energy transition in Europe (collaboration with CERI / Sciences Po Paris, funded by IDEX / Agence Nationale de Recherche grant).

Selected publications

Dąbrowski, M., Varju, V., Amenta, L. (2019). Transferring Circular Economy Solutions across Differentiated Territories: Understanding and Overcoming the Barriers for Knowledge Transfer. Urban Planning, 4(3). www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/2162
Arciniegas, G., Šileryté, S., Dąbrowski, M., Wandl, A., Dukai, B., Bohnet, M., Gutsche, J. (2019) A Geodesign Decision Support Environment for Integrating Management of Resource Flows in Spatial Planning. Urban Planning, 4(3). www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/2173
Obersteg, A., Arlati, A., Acke, A., Berruti, G., Czapiewski, K., Dąbrowski, M., Heurkens, E., Mezei, C., Palestino, M. F., Varjú, V., Wójcik, M., Knieling, J. (2019) Urban Regions Shifting to Circular Economy: Understanding Challenges for New Ways of Governance. Urban Planning, 4(3). www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/2158

Dąbrowski, M., & Piskorek, K. (2018). The development of strategic spatial planning in Central and Eastern Europe: between path dependence, European influence, and domestic politics. Planning Perspectives, Download

Chan, F. K. S., Joon, C. C., Ziegler, A. D., Dabrowski, M., & Varis, O. (2018) Towards resilient flood risk management for Asian coastal cities: lessons learned from Hong Kong and Singapore. Journal of Cleaner Production, 187(20), 576-589. Download

Dąbrowski, M., Musiałkowska, I., Polverari, L. (2018) Introduction: drawing lessons from international policy transfer initiatives in regional and urban development and spatial planning, Regional Studies, 52(9), 1165-1168. Download

Dąbrowski, M., Musiałkowska, I., Polverari, L. (2018) EU–China and EU–Brazil policy transfer in regional policy, Regional Studies, 52(9), 1169-1180. Download

Dąbrowski, M. (2018) Boundary Spanning for Governance of Climate Change Adaptation in Cities: Insights from a Dutch Urban Region, Environment and Planning C: Politics & Space, 36(5), 837-855. Download

Baun, M., Marek, D., Dąbrowski, M. (2017) The challenge of implementing EU Environmental Law in the New Member States: The Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive in the Czech Republic and Poland. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 35(6), 1117-1135. Download

Francesch-Huidobro, M., Dąbrowski, M., Tai, Y., Chan, F., Stead, D. (2017) Governance challenges of flood-prone delta cities: Integrating flood risk management and climate change in spatial planning. Progress in Planning, 114, pp. 1-27. Download

publications

Publications in Pure

subjects

2017 - Regional Strategies & Territorial Governance