Spatial Planning and Climate Change

Spatial planning has a vital role to play in the move to a low carbon energy future and in adapting to climate change. To do this, spatial planning must develop and implement new approaches. Elizabeth Wilson and Jake Piper explore a wide range of issues in this comprehensive book on the relationship between our changing climate and spatial planning, and suggest ways of addressing the challenges by taking a longer-sighted approach to our preparation for the future. This text includes: an overview of what we know already about future climate change and its impacts, as we attempt both to adapt to these changes and to reduce the emissions which cause them the role of spatial planning in relation to climate change, offering some theoretical and political explanations for the challenges that planning faces in the coming decades a review of policy and legislation at international, EU and UK levels in regard to climate change, and the support this gives to the planning system case studies detailing what responses the UK and the Netherlands have made so far in light of the evidence ways to help new and existing urban developments to reduce energy use and to adapt to climate change, through strengthening the relationships between urban and rural areas to avoid water shortage, floods or loss of biodiversity. The authors take an evidence-based look at this hugely important topic, providing a well-illustrated text for spatial planning professionals, politicians and the interested public, as well as a useful reference for postgraduate planning, geography, urban studies, urban design and environmental studies students.

ISBN 0415495911   Pages 480 ISBN13 9780415495912 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 793 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Published in London Imprint Routledge   Series title The Natural and Built Environment Series Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 16 Aug 2010   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 307.12   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		List of illustrations
		List of abbreviations
		Preface
		Acknowledgements
PART I		Introduction		1
1		Introduction: spatial planning, climate change and sustainable development		3
1.1		Introduction		3
1.2		Urgency of response to climate change		3
1.2.1		Observed changes		3
1.2.2		Essentials of the science of climate change		5
1.2.3		Rate of change		6
1.2.4		Dangerous climate change		7
1.3		Role of Spatial Planning		9
1.3.1		Identifying the role of spatial planning		9
1.3.2		Scope of spatial planning		10
1.3.3		The state and planning for the future		12
1.3.4		Planning and scale		13
1.3.5		Planning, implementation and management		14
1.4		Implications for sustainable development		15
1.5		Conclusions		17
2		Climate change mitigation and adaptation: impacts and opportunities		18
2.1		Introduction and definitions		18
2.1.1		Impacts of climate and climate change		18
2.1.2		Definitions		19
2.1.3		Sources of emissions		19
2.2		Impacts and opportunities of climate change		23
2.2.1		Identifying impacts		23
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