Incorporating climate change adaptation into local plans
Ian M. Picketts,
Stephen J. D�ry and
John A. Curry
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2014, vol. 57, issue 7, 984-1002
Abstract:
Local governments can encourage proactive action on climate change by incorporating adaptation measures into long-term planning documents. The authors undertook action-oriented, case study research by participating (as adaptation experts) in the process to create a sustainability and land use policy plan for the City of Prince George, Canada. A range of adaptation measures was incorporated into both documents. Factors enabling the incorporation of adaptation included a high level of local awareness, an existing adaptation strategy to draw upon and the flexible process used to create the plans. Challenges such as a lack of priority, limited policy direction and perceptions of climate change as solely an environmental challenge persist as barriers to incorporating adaptation into local plans, particularly in smaller centres.
Date: 2014
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (9)
Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09640568.2013.776951 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:57:y:2014:i:7:p:984-1002
Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/CJEP20
DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2013.776951
Access Statistics for this article
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management is currently edited by Dr Neil Powe, Dr Ken Willis and George Bill Page
More articles in Journal of Environmental Planning and Management from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().