Climate change is transforming the framework of spatial planning and changing its priorities. As part of the RTPI's 7 commitments to Climate Change, it aims to support and participate in research that provides a sound evidence base about the contribution of planning, use and development to climate change.
These Research pages highlight projects, publications and events dealing with issues of planning and climate change within the following topic areas:
Climate change and communities
The annual conference of the Canadian Institute of Planners 2010 focused on the theme of Climate Change & Communities. Read the RTPI President's presentation, giving a round-up of Institute activity promoting the role of planning in managing Climate Change.
How well prepared is the UK for climate change?
The Committee on Climate Change's Adaptation Sub-Committee has published an assessment of how prepared the UK is for the effects of climate change. Find out how we're doing.
Competitive cities and climate change
An OECD Working Paper on Competitive Cities and Climate Change presents findings on the impact of metropolitan regions on climate change. It argues that urban policies can complement global climate policies by reducing global energy demand, carbon dioxide emissions and the overall costs of abatement.
Climate change adaptation
Find out what the Environment Agency is doing to mitigate against and adapt to climate change in their adaptation case studies.
ESPON-Climate
The ESPON-Climate project analyses how and to what extent climate change will affect the competitiveness and cohesion of European regions. The project website provides information on the background, objectives and team behind the research.
Climate change and spatial analysis, January 2010
A symposium on climate change was held by the German Academy for Spatial Planning and Regional Analysis (ARL) and the RTPI at the Royal Institution on 21 January 2010. This was attended by ARL's President, Vice President and Head of Spatial Planning. Joe Ravetz, Simin Davoudi and Elizabeth Wilson, gave presentations on climate change policy in the UK, as did three researchers from ARL on related German research.
Climate change and you
What are the social, personal, economic, ethical and environmental implications of climate change? Research Councils UK funded researchers across a wide range of disciplines, from engineers to philosophers, are exploring these issues. See what the experts say, test your knowledge and find out more about climate change research here.
Planners' response to climate change
Understanding of climate change is changing both the framework and the substance of development planning. Climate change therefore raises profound professional, technical, theoretical and ethical issues for planners. This argument is explored and substantiated by the contributors to a new book edited by Simin Davoudi, Abid Mehmood and Jenny Crawford for Earthscan: Planning for Climate Change: Strategies for Mitigation and Adaptation.
It demonstrates the complexity of the development challenges involved in grappling with low carbon, climate-proof urban form and infrastructure. The contributors explore the barriers to effective planning for such development and highlight the implications for governance, from transnational to local levels, and the relationship between these levels. It shows that politics, values, governance, legislation and institutional capacity are inescapable considerations for planning practice. Indeed, spatial planning is a fundamental component of governance and a key determinant of governance capacity to respond effectively to climate change and related sustainable development challenges.
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Climate change and innovation in the built environment
A recent report commissioned by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, NESTA, from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and partners, describes the challenge of climate change for the Built Environment. Find out more...
Getting up to speed in urban river corridors
The URSULA project brings together research on the physical, ecological, economic and social issues raised by rivers in urban areas, with the River Don as a detailed case study. URSULA will be holding its second conference on 16 October 2009 at the University of Sheffield. Find out more...
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