Sustainability and Adaptation in Planning: Community Resilience Against Accelerating Environmental Change

Abstract

Urban and regional planning can be both the context and an instrument to create and foster resilience on the scale of the city, district, or neighborhood, against the background of growing and increasingly compounded climate-related and socio-economic uncertainty and risk. How can planning help communities cope with and adapt to the related societal and spatial challenges? Why is resilience relevant to sustainable planning in the context of adaptation to accelerating environmental risk and how can it be ‘built’ into formal planning processes?