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Assessing the Climate Change Fitness of Spatial Planning: A Guidance for Planners

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About the guidance

Background

This guidance was developed in the project CLISP - Climate Change Adaptation by Spatial Planning in the Alpine Space within the framework of the European Territorial Cooperation Alpine Space Programme 2007-2013. The concept of the guidance references to the UKCIP Adaptation Wizard. It transforms the principles and contents of the Wizard to the Alpine Space and narrows it down to spatial planning’s response to climate change.

Goal

The guidance is designed for application by planners on national, regional and local levels who must evaluate whether or not their spatial planning policies and instruments are fit for climate change adaptation.

Focus

The guidance provides a framework for a climate change fitness assessment of spatial planning in a transnational context that shall be generally applicable to different territorial levels within the different spatial planning systems in the Alpine countries. Further specification to the respective requirements of spatial planning systems at national and lower-ranking levels is thus encouraged. The guidance focuses on the regional context of climate change adaptation and on the responses of spatial planning to climate change.

A 4-step guideline

The guidance offers a step-by-step approach and helps spatial planning authorities and policy makers to assess the degree of the climate change fitness of their spatial planning policies and instruments and to identify enhancement options for climate proofing spatial planning.

Self-evaluation

The guidance offers a user-friendly self-assessment and aims at supporting and facilitating cross-cutting climate change adaptation processes as well as the identification of adaptation strategies and specific measures with regard to spatial planning policies and instruments.

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Pütz, M., Kruse, S., Butterling, M. (2011): Assessing the Climate Change Fitness of Spatial Planning: A Guidance for Planners. ETC Alpine Space Project CLISP. [PDF]

Pütz, M., Kruse, S., Butterling, M. (2011): CLISP Climate Change Fitness Checklist. ETC Alpine Space Project CLISP. [PDF]
Kruse, S., Pütz, M., Butterling, M. (2011): CLISP Climate Change Fitness Assessment Criteria. ETC Alpine Space Project CLISP. [PDF]

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