This session explores how planning frameworks, governance structures, and funding mechanisms intersect with climate change, social inclusion, and urban resilience across diverse global contexts. Through cases from Ghana, Nigeria, Québec, and the Caribbean, presenters examine how communities and institutions conceptualize and respond to complex socio-environmental challenges. Themes include the syndemic nature of urban health and climate, participatory perspectives on sustainability, inclusion/exclusion in urban development, financing challenges, and normative frameworks in multilevel governance. The session highlights both the limits of current approaches and the transformative potential of community-informed, equity-driven policies.

• 3:00 PM
  Tackling Syndemic in Diet and Physical Activity Behaviour in Climate Change Hazards Policies in Lagos, Nigeria
  Adedayo Vide Chitru Titilayo, University of Lagos

• 3:15 PM
  Local Experiences and Perspectives of Resilience and Sustainability to Climate and Environmental Hazards in Two Informal Settlements in Accra, Ghana
  Reforce Okwei, Western University

• 3:30 PM
  The Theory-Practice Conundrum: Urban Practitioners' Interpretation of Urban Inclusion and Exclusion in Accra, Ghana
  Desmond Adjaison, Western University

• 3:45 PM
  Contested Environment - Contested Values: The Role of Plural Values in a Context of Socio-Environmental Conflicts
  Jana Schluenss, Université du Québec en Outaouais

• 4:00 PM
  Planning with an [Un]Common Fund: Exploring the Role of Metropolitan Governance and Urban Infrastructure Financing in Addressing Spatial Inequalities in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA)
  Akosua B. Asare, Western University

• 4:15 PM
  Les enjeux de la perspective normative sur l'efficacité de la gouvernance multiniveau et des stratégies de gestion de l’aide, centrées sur la résilience systémique et visant la justice climatique, dans le contexte des Petits États insulaires en développement (PEID) de la Caraïbe
  Yvon Guerrier, Université Laval