Local Government and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Carlos Nunes Silva, Geographer, PhD, Professor Auxiliar at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal. His research interests focus mainly on urban and metropolitan governance, the history and theory of urban planning, urban planning in Africa, urban e-planning, urban planning ethics, local government policies, local e-government, and research methods. He is member of the Editorial Board of 'Planning Perspectives', the editor of the book series 'Local and Urban Governance', the founding editor-in-chief of the ‘International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR)’ , and Chair of the International Geographical Union Commission on ‘Geography of Governance’.

• Chapter 1. Local Government and the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Introduction (Carlos Nunes Silva).- PART I.- Chapter 2. Renaissance of Public Health as a Determining Factor of Urban Governance (Maria de Pilar Tellez Soler and Remy Sietchiping).- Chapter 3. Local actions to combat COVID-19 crisis: Contextual insights into local institutional responses to COVID-19 in Europe and the United States (Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko and Arto Haveri).-  Chapter 4. Metropolises Overcoming the Covid-19 Pandemic: An urgent call for territorialising global agendas at sub-national levels (Rafael H. Forero and Remy Sietchiping).- Chapter 5. The political economy of COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned from the responses of local government in Sub-Saharan Africa (Matamanda et al.).- PART II.- Chapter 6. German Local Authorities in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Challenges, impacts and adaptations (Jochen Franzke).- Chapter 7. Momentum of Federalism? National, State, and Municipal Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Germany (Sascha Krannich).- Chapter 8. Local Government response towards COVID-19 Pandemic in Portugal (Carlos Nunes Silva).- Chapter 9. Local Government response to COVID-19. Some insights from Spain (Ramon Galindo Caldés and Marc Vilalta Reixach).- Chapter 10. Administrative boundaries and COVID-19. The case of Catalonia, Spain (Galindo Caldés et al.).- Chapter 11. Covid-19 and multilevel territorial governance. Transcalar patterns, frictions of competencies and planning conflicts in Italy (Teresa Graziano).- Chapter 12. Local and National Government response towards COVID-19 Pandemic in Lombardy, Italy (Sara Belotti).- Chapter 13. The 2020 Pandemic Governance in Italy and Lombardy: Institutional Conflict in Health Emergency (Renzo Riboldazzi).- Chapter 14. Reorganisation of businesses, processes and the development of policies for safely emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy (Anna Trono and Valentina Castronuovo).- Chapter 15. Coping with COVID-19 Pandemic in Greece- A Joint Effort at the National and Urban Level (Stratigea et al).- Chapter 16. Covid-19 Crisis Management in Croatia: The Contribution of Subnational Levels of Government (Dana Dobrić Jambrović).- PART III.- Chapter 17. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on local government units in Poland (Mariusz W. Sienkiewicz and Katarzyna Kuć-Czajkowska).- Chapter 18. Presidential Elections in Poland during the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Unexpected Challenge for Political Actors and the Relationship between National Government and Local Government.- (Tomasz Kaczmarek and Łukasz Mikuła).- Chapter 19. Local self-government and governance during Covid-19 pandemic in Slovakia (Ján Buček).- Chapter 20. Anti- and post-COVID-19 measures taken by the Czech Government in relation to the spatial distribution of COVID-19 indicators (Paszto et al.).- Chapter 21. The Role of Regional and Local Governance in Dealing with the Socioeconomic Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia (Glezer et al.).- PART IV.- Chapter 22.  Local Governments in Networked Space: Changing social media networks of local governments during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey (Eda Ünlü-Yücesoy et al.).- Chapter 23. Jalisco versus COVID-19: Local governance and the response to the health, social, and economic emergency (Katia Magdalena Lozano Uvario and Rocio Rosales Ortega).- Chapter 24. Local governments and the meanings of social distancing: Implementation deficiencies in the times of COVID-19 (Paulo Nascimento).- Chapter 25. Small-scale farming and alternative food alliances in the context of COVID-19 crisis in Brazil (Felipe da Silva Machado).- Chapter 26. The South African Local Government and Municipal Planning Responses to COVID-19 (Verna Nel and  Martin Lewis).- Chapter 27. The Impact of Covid-19 on Urban Form and Governance: Early Experiences from the City of Cape Town (Daniel J du Plessis).- Chapter 28. Sub-national Political Culture and Covid-19 Pandemic: Governance Response towards Life and Livelihood Vulnerabilities of Urban Poor in India (Chatterji et al.).- Chapter 29. Technological interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic in India (Falguni Mukherjee).- Chapter 30. End of the World: New Zealand’s local government and Covid-19 (Jeffrey McNeill and Andy Asquith).