Climate Action and Spatial Planning - Key Concepts and Issues

13 Maio 2023, 09:00 • João Morais Lavadinho Mourato

This session breaks down a series of key concepts regarding the framing of the evolution of spatial planning public agains the backdrop of the contemporary climate change agenda.  It breakdowns streamlined conceptualizations of the policy cycle to examine the enablers and obstacles to policy coherence and integration. It finishes with a critical review of the current EU Climate Policy Environment's Policy Instruments, Polity and Politics. 

Reading List: 

•Albers, M. & Deppisch, S. (2013), “Resilience in the Light of Climate Change: Useful Approach or Empty Phrase for Spatial Planning?”, European Planning Studies, 21:10, 1598-1610 Bicknell et al (2010), Adapting cities to climate change, London, Earthscan 


•Anguelovski, I., & Carmin, J. (2011). Something borrowed, everything new: innovation and institutionalization in urban climate governance. Current opinion in environmental sustainability, 3(3), 169-175. 


•Boyd, E., Ensor, J., Broto, V. C., & Juhola, S. (2014). Environmentalities of urban climate governance in Maputo, Mozambique. Global Environmental Change, 26, 140-151. 


•Bulkeley, H. e Tuts, R. (2013) Understanding urban vulnerability, adaptation and resilience in the context of climate change, Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, 18 (6), pp. 646-662 

. Davidse, B. J., Othengrafen, M. & Deppisch, S. (2015), Spatial planning practices of adapting to climate change. European Journal of Spatial Development 


•Davoudi, S., Crawford, J. e Mehmood, A. (Eds.) (2009), Planning for Climate Change: Strategies for Mitigation and Adaptation for Spatial Planners, London, Earthscan 


•Hughes, S., Chu, E. K. & Mason, S. G. (2018), Climate Change in Cities. Innovations in Multi-Level Governance, Springer 


•Kern, K., & Alber, G. (2009). Governing climate change in cities: modes of urban climate governance in multi-level systems. In The international conference on Competitive Cities and Climate Change, Milan, Italy, 9-10 October, 2009 (pp. 171-196). 


•Pelling, M. (2011), Adaptation to climate change. From resilience to transformation, London: Taylor & Francis 


•Prutsch, A., Grothmann, T., McCallum, S., Schauser, I., Swart, R.(eds) (2014), Climate Change Adaptation Manual. Lessons learned from European and other industrialised countries. Abingdon, Oxon and New York, Routledge 


•Wilson, E. e Piper, J. (2010), Spatial Planning and Climate Change, London, Routledge 


•Wolfram, M., Van der Heijden, J., Juhola, S., & Patterson, J. (2019). Learning in urban climate governance: Concepts, key issues and challenges. Journal of environmental policy & planning, 21(1), 1-15.