Dialogues in Planning for Climate Change
Enduring Challenges and Transformative Pathways
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 22. October 2026
Book
Hardback
370 pages
978-1-032-98878-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning series offers selected contributions from scholars in urban and regional planning from around the world with internationally recognised authors taking up pressing issues from theory, education for, and practice of planning.
This 8th volume features contributions on the theme, Dialogues in Planning for Climate Change: Enduring Challenges and Transformative Pathways, and explores how spatial planning can support adaptation measures to build resilience, mitigate impacts on communities, and improve climate change education for future practitioners. Chapters critically examine the dilemmas faced by societies, such as the trade-offs between reducing greenhouse gas emissions (mitigation) and adaptation efforts, as well as the disproportionate effects of climate change on disadvantaged communities. Practice-based case studies provide illustrative examples of these challenges, highlighting the uneven engagement of planners with climate change and the context-dependent nature of planning. For instance, the stark threats to human settlements differ significantly between regions like Northern Europe and Australia, yet there are opportunities for cross-regional learning. Issues such as climate-induced droughts and fires affect areas like the Southwest USA, Australia, and Southern Europe, while sea level rise impacts coastal cities worldwide.
The volume is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate studies in urban and regional planning, political studies, governance, urban development, and human geography.
The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning (DURP) series is published in association with the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) and its national and transnational planning schools' associations members.
This 8th volume features contributions on the theme, Dialogues in Planning for Climate Change: Enduring Challenges and Transformative Pathways, and explores how spatial planning can support adaptation measures to build resilience, mitigate impacts on communities, and improve climate change education for future practitioners. Chapters critically examine the dilemmas faced by societies, such as the trade-offs between reducing greenhouse gas emissions (mitigation) and adaptation efforts, as well as the disproportionate effects of climate change on disadvantaged communities. Practice-based case studies provide illustrative examples of these challenges, highlighting the uneven engagement of planners with climate change and the context-dependent nature of planning. For instance, the stark threats to human settlements differ significantly between regions like Northern Europe and Australia, yet there are opportunities for cross-regional learning. Issues such as climate-induced droughts and fires affect areas like the Southwest USA, Australia, and Southern Europe, while sea level rise impacts coastal cities worldwide.
The volume is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate studies in urban and regional planning, political studies, governance, urban development, and human geography.
The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning (DURP) series is published in association with the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) and its national and transnational planning schools' associations members.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced
Illustrations
31 s/w Zeichnungen, 28 s/w Tabellen, 23 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 54 s/w Abbildungen
28 Tables, black and white; 31 Line drawings, black and white; 23 Halftones, black and white; 54 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-032-98878-8 (9781032988788)
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Persons
Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes, PhD, is Head of Discipline (Architecture, Industrial Design and Planning) at Griffith University. She specialises in climate change adaptation, urban and disaster resilience, and natural resource management. She is active in Urban Climate Change Research Network and UN-Habitat's Planners for Climate Action. With a keen interest in planning education, she leads major organisations as Chair of Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) and President of Australia and New Zealand Association of Planning Schools (ANZAPS). She co-edited Off the Plan: The Urbanisation of the Gold Coast and serves on the Journal of Planning Education and Research Editorial Board.
Andrea I Frank, PhD, is Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research interests encompass comparative international planning, sustainable development and climate change, public participation, and pedagogy. She has represented the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) and chaired the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) 2010-14. She is coordinating the AESOP Thematic Group on Planning Education. Her recent publications include Urban Planning Education (Springer, 2018), Teaching Urban and Regional Planning: Innovative Pedagogies in Practice (Elgar, 2021), Transformative Planning: Smarter, Greener and More Inclusive Practices (DURP, Vol 7, 2022) and The Routledge Companion to International Comparative Planning (2025).
Christopher Silver, PhD, FAICP, is Emeritus Professor of Urban and Regional Planning who joined the faculty at the University of Florida in 2006 as Dean of the College of Design, Construction and Planning. He is a four-time Fulbright Senior Scholar in Indonesia and holds honorary professorships at the University of Indonesia and the Institute of Technology, Bandung. His scholarship includes 9 books, 21 book chapters and 21refereed articles dealing with race, politics and planning in the U.S and international planning, beginning with Planning the Megacity: Jakarta in the Twentieth Century (2008) and Urban Flood Risk Management: Looking at Jakarta (2022). He is past co-editor the Journal of the American Planning Association and served as co-editor of Dialogues 6 and Dialogues 7.
Andrea I Frank, PhD, is Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research interests encompass comparative international planning, sustainable development and climate change, public participation, and pedagogy. She has represented the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) and chaired the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) 2010-14. She is coordinating the AESOP Thematic Group on Planning Education. Her recent publications include Urban Planning Education (Springer, 2018), Teaching Urban and Regional Planning: Innovative Pedagogies in Practice (Elgar, 2021), Transformative Planning: Smarter, Greener and More Inclusive Practices (DURP, Vol 7, 2022) and The Routledge Companion to International Comparative Planning (2025).
Christopher Silver, PhD, FAICP, is Emeritus Professor of Urban and Regional Planning who joined the faculty at the University of Florida in 2006 as Dean of the College of Design, Construction and Planning. He is a four-time Fulbright Senior Scholar in Indonesia and holds honorary professorships at the University of Indonesia and the Institute of Technology, Bandung. His scholarship includes 9 books, 21 book chapters and 21refereed articles dealing with race, politics and planning in the U.S and international planning, beginning with Planning the Megacity: Jakarta in the Twentieth Century (2008) and Urban Flood Risk Management: Looking at Jakarta (2022). He is past co-editor the Journal of the American Planning Association and served as co-editor of Dialogues 6 and Dialogues 7.
Content
1 Introduction (Andrea I Frank, Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes and Christopher Silver) SECTION 1: ADAPTATION AT DIFFERENT SCALES: SECTORAL AND LOCAL STRATEGIES 2 Infrastructure and Climate Change in Brazil: Planning Adaptation at Different Scales (Jeferson C. Tavares) 3 Bridging climate adaptation and mitigation in urban development? Urban planning discourses in the Baltic Sea Region (Antti Roose, Ly Lumiste, Kerli Kirsimaa) 4 Environmental (In)justice in Territorial Planning, Sao Paulo Climate Justice (Mariana Urrestarazu de Freitas, Murilo Sergio Figueiredo Bina, and Luciana Travassos) 5 The Role of Secondary Towns in Climate Change Adaptation Governance: An Analysis of Secondary Towns of Pwani Region in Tanzania (Ludy Steffany Diaz Rodriquez, Frederick Bwire Magina, and John Modestus Lupala) 6 Climate Change at a Subnational Scale: SDG 13 in Sao Paolo Macrometropolis (Pedro Henrique Campello Torres, Klaus Frey, Jacobi Klaus, Pedro Roberto, Pedro Luiz Cortes and Leila Vendrametto) SECTION 2: ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE IMPACTS 7 Living on Top of the Water: Public Attitudes Toward Floating Homes in North Jakarta, Indonesia (Rukuh Setiadi, Joerg Baumeister, Alex Lo and Luna Perita) 8 Re-Imagining Relationships with Space, Place, and Property: The Story of Mainstreaming Management Retreat in Aotearoa, New Zealand (Christina Hanna, Raven Cretney and Iain White) 9 The Role of Community Leaders in Overcoming Climate Change Problems: A Case Study of Flood and Tide Infrastructure Management in Panggung Lor Sub-District, Semarang City, Indonesia (Hadi Wahyono and Mardwi Rahdriawan) 10 A Political Ecology of Urban Adaptation to Water Scarcity in Phoenix and Tuscon (Arizona, USA) (Anne-Lise Boyer, Yves-Francois Le Lay and Pascal Mardy) 11 Planning for Climate Change: Implications of High Temperatures and Extreme Heat Waves for Los Angeles County, California (Sungyup Kim, Fengpeng Sun and Clara Irazabal) 12 Spatio-temporal Evaluation of Thermal Quality in Istanbul with Emphasis on Urban Grey-Green-Blue Landscape (Deniz Erdem-Okumus) 13 Apocalypse Now: Bushfires and the Future of Urban Settlements (Barbara Norman, Peter Newman and Will Steffen) SECTION 3: CLIMATE EDUCATION 14 Planning for Climate Leadership (Elisabeth Infield, Linda Shi, Ivis Garcia, Jennifer Minner Jan Whittington, Kiah Goh, David Hsu, Julian Agyeman, Michael Boswell and Brian Stone) 15 Is Climate Change in the Curriculum? An Analysis of Austrian Urban Planning Degrees (Anna Hurlimann, Patrick Brandful Cobbinah, Judy Bush and Alan Marsh) SECTION 4: TRANSFORMATIVE RESPONSE 16 Transformative Climate Change Adaptation in the United States: Trends and Prospects (Linda Shi and Susanne Moser) 17 The Practical and Epistemological Ecologization of Urban Land Development (Daniel Florentin, Agnes Bastin, Magali Castex) 18 Biophilic Institutions: Building New Solidarities Between the Economy and Nature (Natasha Iskander and Nichola Lowe) SECTION 5: GLOBAL OUTLOOK OF CLIMATE ADAPTATION RESEARCH IN PLANNING 19 Reflections on Planning Scholarship on Climate Change (Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes, Andrea I Frank and Christopher Silver)