Dialogues in Planning for Climate Change Enduring Challenges and Transformative Pathways

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Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

Andrea I Frank, Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes and Christopher Silver

SECTION 1: ADAPTATION AT DIFFERENT SCALES: SECTORAL AND LOCAL STRATEGIES

2 Infrastructure and Climate Change in Brazil: Planning Adaptation at Different Scales

Jeferson C. Tavares

3 Bridging climate adaptation and mitigation in urban development? Urban planning discourses in the Baltic Sea Region

Antti Roose, Ly Lumiste, Kerli Kirsimaa

4 Environmental (In)justice in Territorial Planning, Sao Paulo Climate Justice

Mariana Urrestarazu de Freitas, Murilo Sergio Figueiredo Bina, and Luciana Travassos

5 The Role of Secondary Towns in Climate Change Adaptation Governance: An Analysis of Secondary Towns of Pwani Region in Tanzania

Ludy Stefanny Diaz Rodriguez, Frederick Bwire Magina, and John Modestus Lupala

6 Climate Change at a Subnational Scale: SDG 13 in Sao Paolo Macrometropolis

Pedro Henrique Campello Torres, Klaus Frey, Jacobi Klaus, Pedro Roberto, Pedro Luiz Cortes and Leila Vendrametto

SECTION 2: ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE IMPACTS

7 Living on Top of the Water: Public Attitudes Toward Floating Homes in North Jakarta, Indonesia

Rukuh Setiadi, Joerg Baumeister, Alex Lo and Luna Perita

8 Re-Imagining Relationships with Space, Place, and Property: The Story of Mainstreaming Management Retreat in Aotearoa, New Zealand

Christina Hanna, Raven Cretney and Iain White

9 The Role of Community Leaders in Overcoming Climate Change Problems: A Case Study of Flood and Tide Infrastructure Management in Panggung Lor Sub-District, Semarang City, Indonesia

Hadi Wahyono and Mardwi Rahdriawan

10 A Political Ecology of Urban Adaptation to Water Scarcity in Phoenix and Tuscon (Arizona, USA)

Anne-Lise Boyer, Yves-Francois Le Lay and Pascal Mardy

11 Planning for Climate Change: Implications of High Temperatures and Extreme Heat Waves for Los Angeles County, California

Sungyup Kim, Fengpeng Sun and Clara Irazabal

12 Spatio-temporal Evaluation of Thermal Quality in Istanbul with Emphasis on Urban Grey-Green-Blue Landscape

Deniz Erdem-Okumus

13 Apocalypse Now: Bushfires and the Future of Urban Settlements

Barbara Norman, Peter Newman and Will Steffen

SECTION 3: CLIMATE EDUCATION

14 Planning for Climate Leadership

Elisabeth Infield, Linda Shi, Ivis Garcia, Jennifer Minner Jan Whittington, Kiah Goh, David Hsu, Julian Agyeman, Michael Boswell and Brian Stone

15 Is Climate Change in the Curriculum?  An Analysis of Australian Urban Planning Degrees

Anna Hurlimann, Patrick Brandful Cobbinah, Judy Bush and Alan March

SECTION 4: TRANSFORMATIVE RESPONSE

16 Transformative Climate Change Adaptation in the United States: Trends and Prospects

Linda Shi and Susanne Moser

17 The Practical and Epistemological Ecologization of Urban Land Development

Daniel Florentin, Agnes Bastin, Magali Castex

18 Biophilic Institutions: Building New Solidarities Between the Economy and Nature

Natasha Iskander and Nichola Lowe

SECTION 5: GLOBAL OUTLOOK OF CLIMATE ADAPTATION RESEARCH IN PLANNING

19 Reflections on Planning Scholarship on Climate Change

Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes, Andrea I Frank and Christopher Silver  

Index

Biography

Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes, PhD, is Head of Discipline (Architecture, Industrial Design and Planning) at Griffith University. She specialises in climate change adaptation, urban and disaster resilience, and natural resource management. She is active in Urban Climate Change Research Network and UN‑Habitat’s Planners for Climate Action. With a keen interest in planning education, she leads major organisations as Chair of Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) and President of Australia and New Zealand Association of Planning Schools (ANZAPS). She co‑edited Off the Plan: The Urbanisation of the Gold Coast and serves on the Journal of Planning Education and Research Editorial Board.

Andrea I Frank, PhD, is Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research interests encompass comparative international planning, sustainable development and climate change, public participation, and pedagogy. She has represented the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) and chaired the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) 2010–14. She is coordinating the AESOP Thematic Group on Planning Education. Her recent publications include Urban Planning Education  (Springer, 2018), Teaching Urban and Regional Planning: Innovative Pedagogies in Practice (Elgar, 2021), Transformative Planning: Smarter, Greener and More Inclusive Practices (DURP, Vol 7, 2022) and The Routledge Companion to International Comparative Planning (2025).

Christopher Silver, PhD, FAICP, is Emeritus Professor of Urban and Regional Planning who joined the faculty at the University of Florida in 2006 as Dean of the College of Design, Construction and Planning.  He is a four-time Fulbright Senior Scholar in Indonesia and holds honorary professorships at the University of Indonesia and the Institute of Technology, Bandung.  His scholarship includes 9 books, 21 book chapters and 21refereed articles dealing with race, politics and planning in the U.S and international planning, beginning with Planning the Megacity: Jakarta in the Twentieth Century (2008) and Urban Flood Risk Management: Looking at Jakarta (2022). He is past co-editor the Journal of the American Planning Association and served as co-editor of Dialogues 6 and Dialogues 7.