Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Spatial Planning And Climate Change
Author(s): Piper Jake (Oxford Brookes University England Uk)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415495912
Pages: 446 Pages, 37 Tables, Black And White; 31 Line Drawings, Black And White; 24 Halftones, Black And Wh
Publication Date: 8/16/2010
Series: Natural and Built Environment Series
Category: Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology