Journal articles: 'Climate Action Planning'

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Rance, Alianne J. "Local Climate Action Planning." Urban Policy and Research 30, no. 4 (October 19, 2012): 472–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2012.729689.

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Bassett, Ellen, and Vivek Shandas. "Innovation and Climate Action Planning." Journal of the American Planning Association 76, no. 4 (September 29, 2010): 435–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2010.509703.

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Nachmany, Michal. "Review: Local Climate Action Planning." Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 30, no. 6 (December 2012): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/c452wr1.

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Bassett, Ellen M. "A Review of “Local Climate Action Planning”." Journal of the American Planning Association 79, no. 1 (January 2, 2013): 96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2012.747932.

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Mason, Susan G., and Michail Fragkias. "Metropolitan planning organizations and climate change action." Urban Climate 25 (September 2018): 37–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2018.04.004.

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Parvey, Melanie, and Pete Haga. "After the GHG Inventory; Community Climate Action Planning." Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation 2010, no. 15 (January 1, 2010): 1967–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2175/193864710798159174.

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Ribeiro, Barbara. "Cities Leading Climate Action: Urban Policy and Planning." Urban Policy and Research 38, no. 1 (September 6, 2019): 79–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2019.1663900.

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Schmitt, Kristen M., Todd A. Ontl, Stephen D. Handler, Maria K. Janowiak, Leslie A. Brandt, Patricia R. Butler-Leopold, P. Danielle Shannon, Courtney L. Peterson, and Christopher W. Swanston. "Beyond Planning Tools: Experiential Learning in Climate Adaptation Planning and Practices." Climate 9, no. 5 (May 7, 2021): 76. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cli9050076.

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In the past decade, several dedicated tools have been developed to help natural resources professionals integrate climate science into their planning and implementation; however, it is unclear how often these tools lead to on-the-ground climate adaptation. Here, we describe a training approach that we developed to help managers effectively plan to execute intentional, climate-informed actions. This training approach was developed through the Climate Change Response Framework (CCRF) and uses active and focused work time and peer-to-peer interaction to overcome observed barriers to using adaptation planning tools. We evaluate the effectiveness of this approach by examining participant evaluations and outlining the progress of natural resources projects that have participated in our trainings. We outline a case study that describes how this training approach can lead to place and context-based climate-informed action. Finally, we describe best practices based on our experience for engaging natural resources professionals and helping them increase their comfort with climate-informed planning.

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Sotto, Debora, Arlindo Philippi, Tan Yigitcanlar, and Md Kamruzzaman. "Aligning Urban Policy with Climate Action in the Global South: Are Brazilian Cities Considering Climate Emergency in Local Planning Practice?" Energies 12, no. 18 (September 5, 2019): 3418. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en12183418.

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Climate change is the biggest global threat of our time. As a signatory nation of the Paris Agreement, Brazil has made a climate action commitment, and expressed its nationally determined contribution to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 37%. The Brazilian population is highly urban, and Brazilian cities are mostly responsible for greenhouse gas emissions, and the worst effects of global warming are experienced in cities. Hence, the fulfillment of the Brazilian climate commitments depends on the active engagement of municipalities. Nevertheless, the Brazilian national government does not monitor local climate actions, and it is not clear how local urban policy is aligned with climate action. In order to bridge this gap, this study tackles the question of: “Are, and if yes how, cities considering the climate emergency in their local planning mechanisms?” This question is investigated by placing five major Brazilian cities under the microscope. The methodological approach includes literature review and applied qualitative analysis to scrutinize how climate issues and actions are factored in urban planning regulations to verify if and to what extent local policies contribute to the fulfillment of the Brazilian nationally determined contribution, and sustainable development goals. The results disclose that investigated cities have adequately incorporated climatic issues in their urban planning mechanisms. However, policy concentrates more on adaptation rather than mitigation, and policy implementation yet to be realized.

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Kautto, Niina, Alexei Trundle, and Darryn McEvoy. "Climate adaptation planning in the higher education sector." International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 19, no. 7 (November 5, 2018): 1259–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijshe-02-2018-0028.

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PurposeThere is a growing interest in climate change action in the higher education sector. Higher education institutions (HEIs) play an important role as property owners, employers, education and research hubs as well as leaders of societal transformations. The purpose of this paper was therefore to benchmark how universities globally are addressing climate risks.Design/methodology/approachAn international survey was conducted to benchmark the sector’s organisational planning for climate change and to better understand how the higher education sector contributes to local-level climate adaptation planning processes. The international survey focused especially on the assessment of climate change impacts and adaptation plans.FindingsBased on the responses of 45 HEIs located in six different countries on three continents, the study found that there are still very few tertiary institutions that plan for climate-related risks in a systematic way.Originality/valueThe paper sheds light on the barriers HEIs face in engaging in climate adaptation planning and action. Some of the actions to overcome such hindering factors include integrating climate adaptation in existing risk management and sustainability planning processes, using the internal academic expertise and curriculum to assist the mapping of climate change impacts and collaborating with external actors to guarantee the necessary resources. The higher education sector can act as a leader in building institutional resilience at the local scale.

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Mitchell, Carrie L., and Alexandra Graham. "Evidence-Based Advocacy for Municipal Climate Change Action." Journal of Planning Education and Research 40, no. 1 (December 9, 2017): 31–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739456x17740939.

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In this article, we argue that evidence-based advocacy for climate change action should be a core competency of professional planners. However, data from our case study in Metro Vancouver, Canada, suggests that municipal-level climate change practitioners have conflicting views regarding their professional responsibility to advocate for action on climate change. We contend these tensions stem from twentieth-century planning debates, which oscillate between rational-comprehensive planning versus calls to advocate, in one form or another, for various public interests. Overall, we find that transforming barriers into enablers of action on climate change must include critical engagement with planning theory and education.

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Cleaves, Sara M., Brett Pasinella, Jennifer Andrews, and Cameron Wake. "Climate action planning at the University of New Hampshire." International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 10, no. 3 (July 10, 2009): 250–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14676370910972567.

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Pattison, Andrew, and Jason Kawall. "Equitable Local Climate Action Planning: Sustainable & Affordable Housing." Ethics, Policy & Environment 21, no. 1 (January 2, 2018): 17–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2018.1447900.

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Lane, Daniel E. "Responding to the Call for Climate Action." Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science (NSIS) 50, no. 2 (March 11, 2020): 237. http://dx.doi.org/10.15273/pnsis.v50i2.9999.

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Global calls for action on climate change have become more urgent in recent years. However, how to act to achieve climate sustainability remains elusive. The evidence is clear that governmental initiatives – global, national, and provincial – have not been able to coalesce into a meaningful strategy for climate sustainability. What is required is a shift in climate responsibility from governments to individuals and communities who think globally but are best able to act locally. To encourage the citizenry to act requires a science-based information and education whereby climate action is clearly defined along with the consequences of actions (or inaction). Education must include a climate curriculum as a mainstream subject in our schools. Using this approach, local community baselines of climate information, vulnerability, and adaptive capacity can be established. In enhancing their climate roles, governments’ need to shift from carrying out mandates for climate response, to becoming auditors of carbon use in which citizens and businesses are given incentives to reduce carbon footprints. Finally, increased investments need to be directed to communities so that they can take more responsibility and be more prepared to live with climate change impacts. Governments also need to engage the community in participatory strategic long-term planning for adaptation to the changing climate. Keywords: climate action, climate responsibility, institutional arrangements, science-based information, education legacy, strategic planning, community investment

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Orlowsky, Boris, Pierluigi Calanca, Irshad Ali, Jawad Ali, Agustin Elguera Hilares, Christian Huggel, Inamullah Khan, et al. "Climate corridors for strategic adaptation planning." International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 9, no. 6 (November 20, 2017): 811–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijccsm-12-2016-0183.

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Purpose Although the importance of climate change is generally acknowledged, its impacts are often not taken into account explicitly when planning development projects. This being due to limited resources, among others, this paper aims to propose a simple and low-cost approach to assess the viability of human activities under climate change. Design/methodology/approach Many human activities are feasible only within a narrow range of climatic conditions. Comparing such “climate corridors” with future climate projections provides an intuitive yet quantitative means for assessing needs for, and the viability of, adaptation activities under climate change. Findings The approach was tested within development projects in Pakistan, Peru and Tajikistan. The approach was shown to work well for forestry and agriculture, indicating positive/negative prospects for wheat in two districts in Pakistan, temperature constraints for maize in Peru and widening elevation ranges for walnut trees in Tajikistan. Practical implications Climate corridor analyses feed into the preparation of Local Adaptation Plans of Action in Pakistan. Originality/value The simplicity and robustness of climate corridor analysis allow for efficient analysis and communication of climate change impacts. It works when data availability is limited, but it can as well accommodate a wide range of complexities. It has proven to be an effective vehicle for mainstreaming climate change into adaptation planning.

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Houston, Donna, Diana McCallum, Wendy Steele, and Jason Byrne. "Climate Cosmopolitics and the Possibilities for Urban Planning." Nature and Culture 11, no. 3 (September 1, 2016): 259–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/nc.2016.110303.

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Cosmopolitical action in a climate-changed city represents different knowledges and practices that may seem disconnected but constellate to frame stories and spaces of a climate-just city. The question this article asks is: how might we as planners identify and develop counter-hegemonic praxes that enable us to re-imagine our experience of, and responses to, climate change? To explore this question, we draw on Isabelle Stengers’s (2010) idea of cosmopolitics—where diverse stories, perspectives, experiences, and practices can connect to create the foundation for new strategic possibilities. Our article is empirically informed by conversations with actors from three Australian cities (Sydney, Brisbane, and Perth) who are mobilizing different approaches to this ideal in various grassroots actions on climate change.

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Chu, Eric, Todd Schenk, and James Patterson. "The Dilemmas of Citizen Inclusion in Urban Planning and Governance to Enable a 1.5 °C Climate Change Scenario." Urban Planning 3, no. 2 (April 24, 2018): 128–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v3i2.1292.

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Cities around the world are facilitating ambitious and inclusive action on climate change by adopting participatory and collaborative planning approaches. However, given the major political, spatial, and scalar interdependencies involved, the extent to which these planning tools equip cities to realise 1.5 °C climate change scenarios is unclear. This article draws upon emerging knowledge in the fields of urban planning and urban climate governance to explore complementary insights into how cities can pursue ambitious and inclusive climate action to realise 1.5 °C climate change scenarios. We observe that urban planning scholarship is often under-appreciated in urban climate governance research, while conversely, promising urban planning tools and approaches can be limited by the contested realities of urban climate governance. By thematically reviewing diverse examples of urban climate action across the globe, we identify three key categories of planning dilemmas: institutional heterogeneity, scalar mismatch, and equity and justice concerns. We argue that lessons from urban planning and urban climate governance scholarship should be integrated to better understand how cities can realise 1.5 °C climate change scenarios in practice.

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Kundzewicz, Zbigniew W., Piotr Matczak, Ilona M. Otto, and Philipp E. Otto. "From “atmosfear” to climate action." Environmental Science & Policy 105 (March 2020): 75–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.12.012.

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Rhodes, Ekaterina, Tamara Krawchenko, Katherine Pearce, and Karena Shaw. "Scaling up local climate action: A survey of climate policy priorities in the Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities region." Canadian Planning and Policy / Aménagement et politique au Canada 2021 (March 26, 2021): 36–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/cpp-apc.v2021i01.14469.

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Regional planning can help functionally-connected communities share expertise and the costs of climate action and amplify collective concerns and needs to upper-level governments. Understanding communities’ climate impacts, policies and barriers to action is foundational to the development of regional-scale climate planning. In support of a nascent climate strategy in the Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities region of British Columbia, our study employs a web-based survey of local government officials (n=106) to identify the existing climate impacts, policy priorities, barriers, and opportunities that guide climate policy-making in the region, including the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that nearly all communities have experienced climate-related impacts and have implemented a variety of climate policies. However, local governments face substantial barriers—including a lack of financial resources, authority and staffing capacity—to pursue climate action and planning.

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GIRVETZ, EVAN H., ELIZABETH GRAY, TIMOTHY H. TEAR, and MATTHEW A. BROWN. "Bridging climate science to adaptation action in data sparse Tanzania." Environmental Conservation 41, no. 2 (January 28, 2014): 229–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892914000010.

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SUMMARYIn the face of an already changing climate, conservation practitioners and local communities face the major challenge of how to plan for a future climate. In data-sparse areas of the world, where action is often most needed, the daunting scope of the problem can lead to inaction. This paper shows that climate adaptation planning can be accomplished successfully with publicly and globally available data by linking science and stakeholders through a facilitated process. Working with local stakeholders in the western Tanzanian Greater Mahale and Greater Gombe Ecosystems, future climate projections produced using Climate Wizard and analyses of literature provided an understanding of the climate vulnerabilities of local ecosystems and human livelihoods. Facilitated workshops enabled local stakeholders to use this information to develop conceptual models and hypotheses of change for these systems, and to identify possible modifications to conservation plans. Here, climate change planning required the modification of most current conservation strategies, developing some new strategies and abandoning others. The paper indicates that climate adaptation planning is achievable even in data-sparse rural and developing areas, but requires appropriate scientific analyses, engaged stakeholders and a facilitated process.

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Schmitt Olabisi, Laura, Robert Ugochukwu Onyeneke, Onyinye Prince Choko, Stella Nwawulu Chiemela, Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie, Anthonia Ifeyinwa Achike, and Adedapo Ayo Aiyeloja. "Scenario Planning for Climate Adaptation in Agricultural Systems." Agriculture 10, no. 7 (July 7, 2020): 274. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agriculture10070274.

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Effective climate adaptation in sub-Saharan African agriculture will require coordination across multiple scales of governance. Decision-makers from local to national scales will be tasked with planning under conditions of high uncertainty, often with minimal data. Participatory scenario planning is a method for devising adaptation strategies under high uncertainty, and we hypothesized that it could also be used for identifying systemic, inclusive, and transformative adaptation options at the community scale, and for highlighting opportunities for cross-scalar collaboration. We conducted scenario exercises with two communities in southeastern Nigeria that have experienced increasing flooding and other challenges linked to climate variability. Both communities identified drivers of change that intersect with climate, as well as community-scale actions that would improve adaptation to a range of future scenarios. We found evidence that scenario exercises can stimulate communities to develop transformative approaches to climate adaptation that seek to reduce climate risk by creating new systems and processes. We also found that community-identified priorities for strategic action highlight how larger-scale interventions could coordinate with communities to adapt more effectively. Participatory scenario planning is therefore a potentially important tool for adaptation planning in regions in which future conditions are highly uncertain.

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Widayati, Atiek, Bastiaan Louman, Elok Mulyoutami, Edi Purwanto, Koen Kusters, and Roderick Zagt. "Communities’ Adaptation and Vulnerability to Climate Change: Implications for Achieving a Climate-Smart Landscape." Land 10, no. 8 (August 3, 2021): 816. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10080816.

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Rural landscapes in many parts of Indonesia are rapidly being transformed, due to the expansion of agrocommodity plantations—oil palm in particular. At the same time, communities in those landscapes face declining crop yields and ecosystem degradation as a result of both climate and non-climate factors. We assessed local perceptions on climate stressors, adaptation and vulnerability using focus group discussions in Ketapang, West Kalimantan. We found that the main perceived climatic stressors were extreme and unpredictable seasons, fires, and saltwater intrusion, affecting ecosystem services and agricultural production. Land clearing and forest loss were mentioned as exacerbating non-climatic stressors. Respondents indicated willingness to adapt to these changes by investing in long-term measures, such as tree-planting. To adapt to yield declines, respondents indicated that many farmers shifted from rubber to oil palm. Such adaptation actions benefit households in the short term but may be at odds with long-term adaptation objectives at the landscape level. Finally, we found that perceptions about vulnerability differed between landscapes, and between communities at the landscape level and stakeholders at the district level. This stresses the importance of participatory and inclusive planning and multi-stakeholder processes towards context-based climate action planning to accommodate the differences in contexts and scale, and to reconcile the differences in perceptions.

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Fox, Mary, Christopher Zuidema, Bridget Bauman, Thomas Burke, and Mary Sheehan. "Integrating Public Health into Climate Change Policy and Planning: State of Practice Update." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 18 (September 4, 2019): 3232. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16183232.

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Policy action in the coming decade will be crucial to achieving globally agreed upon goals to decarbonize the economy and build resilience to a warmer, more extreme climate. Public health has an essential role in climate planning and action: “Co-benefits” to health help underpin greenhouse gas reduction strategies, while safeguarding health—particularly of the most vulnerable—is a frontline local adaptation goal. Using the structure of the core functions and essential services (CFES), we reviewed the literature documenting the evolution of public health’s role in climate change action since the 2009 launch of the US CDC Climate and Health Program. We found that the public health response to climate change has been promising in the area of assessment (monitoring climate hazards, diagnosing health status, assessing vulnerability); mixed in the area of policy development (mobilizing partnerships, mitigation and adaptation activities); and relatively weak in assurance (communication, workforce development and evaluation). We suggest that the CFES model remains important, but is not aligned with three concepts—governance, implementation and adjustment—that have taken on increasing importance. Adding these concepts to the model can help ensure that public health fulfills its potential as a proactive partner fully integrated into climate policy planning and action in the coming decade.

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Faling, Willemien, Johann WN Tempelhoff, and Dewald van Niekerk. "Rhetoric or action: Are South African municipalities planning for climate change?" Development Southern Africa 29, no. 2 (June 2012): 241–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0376835x.2012.675695.

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Pan, Haozhi, Jessica Page, Le Zhang, Si Chen, Cong Cong, Georgia Destouni, Zahra Kalantari, and Brian Deal. "Using comparative socio-ecological modeling to support Climate Action Planning (CAP)." Journal of Cleaner Production 232 (September 2019): 30–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.05.274.

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Davies, Anna R., and Stephan Hügel. "Just Adapt: Engaging Disadvantaged Young People in Planning for Climate Adaptation." Politics and Governance 9, no. 2 (April 28, 2021): 100–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v9i2.3892.

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The visibility of young people in climate change debates has risen significantly since the inception of the Fridays for Future movement, but little is known about the diversity of positions, perspectives and experiences of young people in Ireland, especially with respect to climate change adaptation planning. To close this knowledge gap, this article first interrogates key emergent spaces of public participation within the arena of climate action in Ireland in order to identify the extent of young people’s participation and whether any specific consideration is given to disadvantaged groups. It then tests the impacts of workshops specifically designed to support disadvantaged young people’s engagement with climate change adaptation which were rolled out with a designated Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools school in inner-city Dublin, Ireland. We found limited attention to public participation in climate change adaptation planning generally, with even less consideration given to engaging young people from disadvantaged communities. However, positive impacts with respect to enhanced knowledge of climate change science and policy processes emerged following participation in the workshops, providing the bedrock for a greater sense of self-efficacy around future engagement with climate action amongst the young people involved. We conclude that what is needed to help ensure procedural justice around climate action in Ireland are specific, relevant and interactive educational interventions on the issue of climate change adaptation; interventions which are sensitive to matters of place and difference.

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Wongbusarakum, Supin, Meghan Gombos, Britt-Anne A. Parker, Catherine A. Courtney, Scott Atkinson, and Willy Kostka. "The Local Early Action Planning (LEAP) Tool: Enhancing Community-Based Planning for a Changing Climate." Coastal Management 43, no. 4 (July 4, 2015): 383–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08920753.2015.1046805.

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Rakibul, Alam, and Bahauddin Khalid Md. "Mainstreaming Climate Change. Adaptation into Regional Planning of Least Developed Countries: Strategy Implications for Regions in Bangladesh." Management of Sustainable Development 6, no. 1 (August 22, 2014): 5–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/msd-2014-0001.

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Abstract The purpose of the study is to assess the search for mainstreaming climate change adaptation into regional planning of least developed countries (LDCs) and draw strategy implications for regions in Bangladesh. The findings of the study revealed that national adaptation programme of action (NAPAs) in least developed countries were being gender-blind and failed to be properly implemented. Least developed countries should therefore do more to prepare for ongoing and future climate changes focusing on actions that are no-regrets, multi-sectoral and multi-level, and that improve the management of current climate variability. Strengthening capacities to use climate information, enabling locally appropriate responses, screening climate risks, assessing risks and adaptation options, starting with existing policies and plans, broadening constituencies beyond environment agencies, managing strategy conflicts, learning from projects and recognizing their limitations, monitoring and learning are the foreseen strategic actions by regions in Bangladesh for effective mainstreaming of climate change adaptation into regional development planning in the years to come.

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Cardoso, Maria Adriana, Rita Salgado Brito, Cristina Pereira, Andoni Gonzalez, John Stevens, and Maria João Telhado. "RAF Resilience Assessment Framework—A Tool to Support Cities’ Action Planning." Sustainability 12, no. 6 (March 17, 2020): 2349. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12062349.

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Urban areas are dynamic, facing evolving hazards, having interacting strategic services and assets. Their management involves multiple stakeholders bringing additional complexity. Potential impacts of climate dynamics may aggravate current conditions and the appearance of new hazards. These challenges require an integrated and forward-looking approach to resilient and sustainable urban development, being essential to identify the real needs for its achievement. Several frameworks for assessing resilience have been developed in different fields. However, considering the focus on climate change and urban services, specific needs were identified, particularly in assessing strategic urban sectors and their interactions with others and with the wider urban system. A resilience assessment framework was developed directing and facilitating an objective-driven resilience diagnosis of urban cities and services. This supports the decision on selection of resilience measures and the development of strategies to enhance resilience, outlining a path to co-build resilience action plans, and to track resilience progress in the city or service over time. This paper presents the framework and the main results of its application to three cities having diverse contexts. It was demonstrated that the framework highlights where cities and urban services stand, regarding resilience to climate change, and identifies the most critical aspects to improve, including expected future impacts.

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Banuri, Tariq. "Guest Editorial: Climate Action with a Human Face." Development 51, no. 3 (August 18, 2008): 310–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/dev.2008.41.

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Shrestha, Pratima, and Dev Raj Gautam. "Improving Forest-Based Livelihoods through Integrated Climate Change Adaptation Planning." Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 2, no. 1 (July 28, 2014): 135–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ctbijis.v2i1.10819.

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Forest-based livelihoods are ruthlessly affected by climate change and other non-climatic stressors. Forests as one of the precious natural assets available in the Chitwan Annapurna area is an appropriate sector to address community and ecosystem vulnerability through adaptation works like plantation, protecting biophysical environment against hazards like landslide, floods, and water scarcity. In Nepal, Community Forest Users Groups with legal entity serves as grassroot organizations in preparation of community based adaptation plan of action (CAPA). Hariyo Ban Program, have facilitated in preparation of community based adaptation plans in remote, vulnerable and marginalized communities of different places of Gandaki river basin. The result shows community perception towards climatic and non climatic stresses and its impacts in forest based livelihoods. Climate change, its variability and extreme events have mystified people’s livelihood and forced them to further suffering. Preparation and implementation of adaptation plans has provided a ray of hope towards addressing adverse impact of climate change. Till date, 142 community adaptation plans are prepared following a methodology on integrated community adaptation planning. Adaptation planning has let community know about the prevailing threats and vulnerabilities in their communities and helped to identify adaptation measures to reduce those threats and vulnerabilities, resulting in improved livelihoods. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ctbijis.v2i1.10819 Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Vol.2(1) 2014: 135-146

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Cheng, Chingwen, Jiun-Yi Tsai, Y. C. Ethan Yang, Rebecca Esselman, Margaret Kalcic, Xin Xu, and Paul Mohai. "Risk Communication and Climate Justice Planning: A Case of Michigan’s Huron River Watershed." Urban Planning 2, no. 4 (October 12, 2017): 34–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v2i4.1045.

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Communicating climate risks is crucial when engaging the public to support climate action planning and addressing climate justice. How does evidence-based communication influence local residents’ risk perception and potential behavior change in support of climate planning? Built upon our previous study of Climate Justice maps illustrating high scores of both social and ecological vulnerability in Michigan’s Huron River watershed, USA, a quasi-experiment was conducted to examine the effects of Climate Justice mapping intervention on residents’ perceptions and preparedness for climate change associated hazards in Michigan. Two groups were compared: residents in Climate Justice areas with high social and ecological vulnerability scores in the watershed (n=76) and residents in comparison areas in Michigan (n=69). Measurements for risk perception include perceived exposure, sensitivity, and adaptability to hazards. Results indicate that risk information has a significant effect on perceived sensitivity and level of preparedness for future climate extremes among participants living in Climate Justice areas. Findings highlight the value of integrating scientific risk assessment information in risk communication to align calculated and perceived risks. This study suggests effective risk communication can influence local support of climate action plans and implementation of strategies that address climate justice and achieve social sustainability in local communities.

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Vignola, Raffaele, Gregoire Leclerc, Mariela Morales, and Julian Gonzalez. "Leadership for moving the climate change adaptation agenda from planning to action." Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 26-27 (June 2017): 84–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2017.03.005.

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Yi, Hongtao, and Richard C. Feiock. "Climate action plan adoptions in the US states." International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 7, no. 3 (August 17, 2015): 375–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijccsm-02-2014-0019.

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Purpose – This paper aims to examine state adoption of climate action plans (CAPs) and investigates the factors driving the adoption of these climate policies in the states. Design/methodology/approach – The framework that is formulated to explain the state climate actions involves four dimensions: climate risks, climate politics, climate economic and climate policy diffusions. These hypotheses are tested with event history analysis on a panel data set on 48 US continental states from 1994 to 2008. Findings – This paper found empirical evidence to support climate politics, economics and policy diffusion explanations. It also found that climate risks are not taken into account in states’ climate actions. A comparison is conducted to compare the differences in state and local climate policymaking. Originality/value – The paper investigates the motivations of state governments in adopting CAPs, and makes comparisons with local climate strategies. It contributes to academic understanding of the multilevel governance of climate protection in the USA.

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Na’puti, Tiara R., Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Leah Sprain, and Lydia Reinig. "Engaging publics through climate math." Journal of Argumentation in Context 7, no. 3 (December 31, 2018): 316–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jaic.18020.nap.

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Abstract Energy democracy hopes to foster community engagement and participation in shaping our transition from fossil fuels to a renewable energy-based economy. These considerations result from critiques by environmental justice, climate justice, and just transition advocates. Although many are sympathetic to energy democracy ideals, climate goals often are articulated in math terms. This essay defines the aforementioned key terms and asks: what are the limitations and possibilities of engaging publics when climate action solely is articulated in numbers? A compelling case study is the City of Boulder – recognized as a global leader in climate science and a national leader in innovative environmental planning. This essay shares work from 2016, when the City shared a climate action plan for public feedback, supported several public participation events, and passed climate action legislation goals. We argue a just transition and energy democracy ideals are hindered if we reduce climate goals to math.

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Bouman, Thijs, Mark Verschoor, Casper J. Albers, Gisela Böhm, Stephen D. Fisher, Wouter Poortinga, Lorraine Whitmarsh, and Linda Steg. "When worry about climate change leads to climate action: How values, worry and personal responsibility relate to various climate actions." Global Environmental Change 62 (May 2020): 102061. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102061.

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Shyng, Jyh-Harng. "Research on Effective Teaching Courses Planning for Environmental Literacy in Climate Change." Journal of Contemporary Educational Research 5, no. 7 (July 30, 2021): 122–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.26689/jcer.v5i7.2370.

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The earth’s environment has been affected by drastic changes in the weather and generally, countries have been vigorously promoting the implementation of environmental education. Through teaching designs from teaching theories with Taiwan’s higher education general education curriculum; the general course of Sustainable Development and Climate Change, this study developed a multi-teaching model and used the two-stage teaching strategy of observation and action in a variety of teaching activities arranged in each week of the semester in order to gradually improve students’ environmental literacy. The specific actions and cognitions of adjustment and mitigation are to achieve the teaching goal of cultivating the ability of environmental literacy among students in the course as well as obtain feedback from the questionnaires on teaching after the course. The multi-teaching model constructed by the institute would obviously help students to improve their learning effectiveness.

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Harcourt, Wendy. "Editorial: Walk the Talk – Putting climate justice into action." Development 51, no. 3 (August 18, 2008): 307–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/dev.2008.38.

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Hadi, Tahmina. "An Analysis of Water Policies and Strategies of Bangladesh in the Context of Climate Change." Asia-Pacific Journal of Rural Development 29, no. 1 (June 2019): 111–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1018529119860958.

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Water sector is crucial to sustainable development. It sustains the natural resources, livelihood of the people and facilitates to operate economic activities of the country. Currently, the water sector of Bangladesh is under severe threats particularly due to impacts of climate change. The Fourth Assessment Report of International Panel on climate change confirms that the water sector will be one of the most vulnerable sectors to climate change. Climate change impacts are being manifested in the form of extreme climatic events and sea-level rise followed by salinity intrusion into the groundwater and wetlands. The Government of Bangladesh has formulated policies to address the climate-induced water vulnerabilities. However, the existing policies are heavily leaned towards strategising adaptation options to address short-run climate-induced water vulnerabilities. Implementation of long-term approaches to combating climate change require laying groundwork which include extensive research on determining the future impacts of climate change on water resources. The article aims to assess some of the major policies, including National Water Policy, Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan, National Strategy for Water Sanitation and Hygiene, The National Sustainable Development Strategy, National Adaptation Programme of Action and Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100, through the lens of climate change to determine that up to what extent these policies have addressed the climate-induced water vulnerabilities. The article has recommended to emphasise on conducting a comprehensive research with proper institutional setup on the long-run impacts of climate change on water resources and undertake subsequent water adaptation strategies to address the water-related problems.

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Dempster, J. I. M., and H. Brammer. "Flood Action Plan – Bangladesh." Outlook on Agriculture 21, no. 4 (December 1992): 301–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003072709202100409.

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Situated on the delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers, with a monsoonal climate and at the mercy of tropical cyclones that sweep up from the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh has had no alternative but to live and cope with floods. However, it took the two major floods of 1987 and 1988 to mobilize the Government and the donor community into making a major effort to look for a permanent solution to Bangladesh's chronic flood problem. This paper describes the planning and development of the Flood Action Plan that resulted.

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Chan, Sander, Clara Brandi, and Steffen Bauer. "Aligning Transnational Climate Action with International Climate Governance: The Road from Paris." Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law 25, no. 2 (July 2016): 238–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/reel.12168.

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Fragomeni, Mariana Barreto Alfonso, Jennifer L. Rice, Rosanna G. Rivero, and J. Marshall Shepherd. "First Policy, Then Action: A Co-Production Approach to Understand the Application of Urban Climate Knowledge in Land Use Planning." Journal of Extreme Events 06, no. 03n04 (December 2019): 2050005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s2345737620500050.

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Barriers to the application of climate science in land use planning are often understood as a problem related to perceived disciplinary knowledge gaps. This paper argues that, instead, limitations to the application of knowledge are not strictly linked to transference, but are also attributed to the thought processes that planners use to understand and use information. This study uses an interactional co-production framework from Science and Technology Studies (STS) to explore these processes in the context of heat response planning in Chatham County, Georgia, in the United States: a coastal county exposed to hot and humid conditions that render its population, particularly its growing elderly and low-income, vulnerable to heat health risks. We specifically focus on the processes used by planners during a heat response planning workshop, exploring the discussions and actions taken to develop a plan. We attempt to answer the following questions: What are the processes used by planners to respond to climatic issues such as heat vulnerability? How do these processes determine the application of the scientific knowledge produced? How does this process enable or limit the use of climate knowledge in decision making at the city scale? This paper argues that planners engage in three steps to determine the applicability of climate knowledge to urban planning: (1) using their own experiences to contextualize and visualize the information in their community, (2) being extremely cautious about the use of information because of a fear of failure, and (3) asking for specific policies to be in place to justify and legitimate actions and promote projects throughout the city. Using these insights, this paper concludes with some thoughts on how climate knowledge might be better integrated into urban planning.

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Bolton, Annette, Matthew Ashworth, Sela Akolo Fau, Sela Ki Folau Fusi, Judy Williamson, and Reynold Ofanoa. "Strengthening Adaptation Planning and Action to Climate-Related Health Impacts in Pacific Islands Countries: Tonga." Global Journal of Health Science 12, no. 3 (February 15, 2020): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v12n3p55.

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A natural hazard and climate change vulnerability and adaptation tool was applied in Tonga to identify health and health system-related climate and natural hazards, and to create and prioritize adaptation strategies and opportunities. During a 2-day multi-sectoral workshop, expert stakeholders prioritized the most extreme health-related and health system risks and devised a series of adaptation strategies. A series of health and health system impacts were identified and related to: cyclones/severe storms, increased average and extreme temperatures, flooding (including landslides), drought, wildfire, tsunami, earthquakes and volcanic activity. The main adaptation strategies identified improving drinking water security; development of Government procedures for drought management; linking health and climate data; increasing food security; improvements in urban design; training health workers; increasing evacuation center resilience in villages; increased research into management responses and enforcing and updating the building code. Adaptation to the health and health system impacts explored during the workshop include many outside the scope of the health system. This paper highlights the importance of multi-stakeholder engagement and co-planning to anticipate and plan for natural hazard and climate-related health and health system impacts and; benefits of establishing and using expert knowledge to determine health adaptation connections, build bridges across sectors and prioritize strategies in the absence of climate and health attributable information.

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Beckett, Margaret. "A stitch in time: UK action to tackle climate change." New Economy 10, no. 3 (September 2003): 155–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0041.00308.

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Simpson, Walter. "Cool Campus! A How-To Guide for College and University Climate Action Planning." AASHE Insights 1, no. 1 (August 1, 2014): 1–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.5848/aashe.5747.2014.0001.

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Philp, George, and Alice Cohen. "Municipal climate change adaptation and mitigation: from planning to action in Nova Scotia." Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 63, no. 11 (December 17, 2019): 1927–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2019.1691509.

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Petersen, Brian, Diana Stuart, and Ryan Gunderson. "Reconceptualizing Climate Change Denial: Ideological Denialism Misdiagnoses Climate Change and Limits Effective Action." Human Ecology Review 25, no. 2 (December 19, 2019): 117–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/her.25.02.2019.08.

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Gurney, Rachel M., Alan F. Hamlet, and Patrick M. Regan. "The influences of power, politics, and climate risk on US subnational climate action." Environmental Science & Policy 116 (February 2021): 96–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.06.023.

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Jörgensen, Kirsten, Arabinda Mishra, and Gopal K. Sarangi. "Multi-level climate governance in India: the role of the states in climate action planning and renewable energies." Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences 12, no. 4 (October 2, 2015): 267–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1943815x.2015.1093507.

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Pielke, Roger A. "Misdefining “climate change”: consequences for science and action." Environmental Science & Policy 8, no. 6 (December 2005): 548–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2005.06.013.

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