Adaptation to Resilience Planning: Alternative Pathways to Prepare for Climate Change

Increasingly, local governments are creating resilience plans. What do these plans contain and how do they compare to other efforts to plan for climate change? We use plan evaluation to analyze 10 resilience plans from U.S. cities in the 100 Resilient Cites program and compare them to 44 climate cha...

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Published in:Journal of planning education and research 2022-03, Vol.42 (1), p.64-75
Main Authors: Woodruff, Sierra C., Meerow, Sara, Stults, Missy, Wilkins, Chandler
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation
Climate adaptation
Climate change
Environmental impact
Environmental policy
Greenhouse effect
Local government
Resilience
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Summary:Increasingly, local governments are creating resilience plans. What do these plans contain and how do they compare to other efforts to plan for climate change? We use plan evaluation to analyze 10 resilience plans from U.S. cities in the 100 Resilient Cites program and compare them to 44 climate change adaptation plans. Resilience plans lack critical elements to prepare cities for climate change but offer a platform to address economic, social, and environmental policies that may amplify climate change impacts. Resilience planning represents an alternative, potentially complementary, path to preparing for climate change, but there is room for improvement.
ISSN:0739-456X
1552-6577
DOI:10.1177/0739456X18801057