How to implement local City-Port strategies in the face of climate change?

Roger Victor MBASSA NDINE

Maire

COMMUNAUTE URBAINE DE DOUALA

Bonnie LOWENTHAL

Commissioner

PORT OF LONG BEACH

Eugene SEAH

Chief Operations Officer

BAKU INTERNATIONAL SEA TRADE PORT

Andrew KIMBALL

President

NEW YORK CITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

Moderator

Carola HEIN

Professor and Head of the Chair History of Architecture and Urban Planning

DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Carola Hein is Professor History of Architecture and Urban Planning at Delft University of Technology and Professor at Leiden and Erasmus University. and director of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus PortCityFutures Centre. She holds the UNESCO Chair of Water, Ports and Historic Cities and leads the LDE PortCityFutures Centre. She has published widely in the field of architectural, urban and planning history, tying historical analysis to contemporary development. Her recent (co-)edited books include: Hustle and Bustle (2025), Port City Atlas (2023), Oil Spaces (2021), Urbanisation of the Sea (2020), Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage (2020), The Routledge Planning History Handbook (2018).