Planning for Climate Change

Creating Transformative Force? The Role of Spatial Planning in Climate Change Transitions Towards Sustainable Transportation

“…"Climate change requires us to reorient our spatial planning to pay more explicit and systematic attention to future possible pathways" (Wilson & Piper, 2010, p.13) Current planning literature dealing with climate change assigns spatial planning an essential, albeit not sufficient, role in facilitating local climate change transitions by means of reforming current planning routines and concrete decision-making practices (Campbell, 2006;Swart & Raes, 2007;Davoudi et al, 2009;Wilson & Piper, 2010). Planning is also expected to provide strategic and reflexive potential that will permit the rethinking of current urban development patterns and the concretisation of alternative development pathways (Healey, 2009;TewdwrJones et al, 2010;Albrechts, 2010).…”

“…Firstly, urban governance of climate change scholars have increasingly demonstrated that responses to climate change are taking place in a multisector, multilevel and multi-actor context, that is across actors and spatial scales in society (e.g. Davoudi et al, 2009, Bulkeley, 2010, Romero-Lankao, 2012. Spatial planning hereby involves coordinating, balancing and integrating various sectoral goals, ambitions and considerations e.g.…”

The practice of settling and enacting strategic guidelines for climate adaptation in spatial planning: lessons from ten Swedish municipalities

“…Spatial planning as an adaptation policy response reinforces the local perspective and means addressing the consequences of climate change in the ongoing regulation of landuse change and the integration and balancing of societal goals in designing and developing urban and rural areas (Campbell 2006;Wilson 2006;Biesbroek et al 2009;Wilson and Piper 2009;Davoudi et al 2009;Amundsen et al 2010;Uittenbroek et al 2012). In this respect planning can either increase the local capacity to deal with climate risks or "lock future generations into development pathways that increase vulnerability" (Rayner 2012, 41;Pielke et al 2007).…”

Using Actor–Network Theory to understand planning practice: Exploring relationships between actants in regulating low-carbon commercial development

“…This is posing difficult questions for public policy, particularly in relation to environmental sustainability and climate change, as new forms of socio-technical studies are rapidly emerging. Planning organisations and planners within them are grappling with a new range of issues, new technologies and new sets of knowledge (Davoudi et al, 2009). The focus on new types of technical knowledge within planning domains has given ANT a purchase on planning problems.…”