Spatial Planning and Climate Change

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.