Climate Change and Spatial Planning
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 609
Special Issue Editor
Interests: climate change; natural risk; water resources use and planification; sustainable spatial planning; theory of geography
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change is a reality that is already evident throughout the world. This process forces the territories and the societies that live in them to prepare to minimize the impact of its effects. In recent years, some cities and regions of the world have developed actions to adapt to the evident effects of climate change on temperatures and rainfall. This Special Issue aims to collect specific initiatives for adaptation to climate change based on spatial planning measures at different scales (municipal, regional, state). Actions to adapt cities and territories to climate change from spatial planning include specific actions for public works or planning actions in land use planning documents (urban plans, regional plans, sectorial plans or strategic plans). The use of green infrastructure is an effective resource for adaptation to new climate conditions. Climate change adaptation through spatial planning tools include actions to mitigate both the registered trend of increasing temperatures and changes in rainfall (reduction or more intensity), and to solve the effects of extreme atmospheric events that are increasing in the last years. This Special Issue aims to offer good practices guidelines that can serve as examples to follow in all territories that want to adapt to climate change.
Prof. Dr. Jorge OlcinaGuest Editor
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Keywords
- Climate change
- spatial planning
- green infrastructure
- urban plans
- adaptation actions
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